Family Therapy

This text would be a welcome addition to introductory family therapy courses that focus on clinical skills. Often students take theory courses that introduce them to the models and use the classic family therapy models to illustrate how family therapy has been practiced. Then students use generic helping relationships skills texts for their initial practice training.

I see this text offering students and faculty a significant resource for two types of courses. First, the proposed text offers a practice oriented family therapy review, which would be useful introductory skill focused courses where the faculty want to focus on pragmatics yet retain a clear systemic focus. Second, the text could be useful to faculty in counseling programs that have an emphasis in family therapy and have limited space in the curriculum. This text offers an efficiency in combing theory and practice with teachable application. Jim Furrow, professor, Fuller Theological University