Family Therapy: An Overview

This current, engaging, and practice-oriented text is your complete resource for mastering the many facets of family therapy. In this Seventh Edition of their respected text, Irene and Herbert Goldenberg examine and explain traditional and evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy. The authors provide practice-oriented content that will help you become an empathic and effective family therapist. The new edition includes the latest references and contemporary thinking on central issues such as family resiliency, alternative forms of family life today, gender, culture, and ethnic considerations. This edition also contains the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Code of Ethics-a great reference that will help you understand the importance of ethical practices.

Both Irene and Herbert Goldenberg are active and experienced teachers and practitioners of couples and family therapy. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where he developed and taught classes in family therapy. Irene is Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She served as Associate Chairperson of that department and as Director of Psychological Services for many years, and continues to teach marriage and family therapy courses to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers there. He currently supervises doctoral students and directs the family therapy program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The Goldenbergs have been awarded the 2007 American Family Therapy Academy lifetime achievement award for family therapy. They also hold membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the Family Therapy division (43) of the American Psychological Association. Both have been elected fellows in that APA division. The Goldenbergs are co-authors of another book published by Brooks/Cole, COUNSELING TODAY'S FAMILIES, Fourth Edition.

Both Irene and Herbert Goldenberg are active and experienced teachers and practitioners of couples and family therapy. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where he developed and taught classes in family therapy. Irene is Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She served as Associate Chairperson of that department and as Director of Psychological Services for many years, and continues to teach marriage and family therapy courses to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers there. He currently supervises doctoral students and directs the family therapy program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The Goldenbergs have been awarded the 2007 American Family Therapy Academy lifetime achievement award for family therapy. They also hold membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the Family Therapy division (43) of the American Psychological Association. Both have been elected fellows in that APA division. The Goldenbergs are co-authors of another book published by Brooks/Cole, COUNSELING TODAY'S FAMILIES, Fourth Edition.