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Assessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (March 23, 2006) © 2007

  • Salvador Minuchin
  • Michael N.A Nichols
  • Wai Yung Lee
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  • Provides a step-by-step model for assessment, outlining for students the process of transition from a family’s presenting complaint to a systemic view of the problem (Ch. 1).
  • Presents case studies of families from a wide variety of ethnic groups, highlighting how family dynamics express themselves in a diversity of cultures (Chs. 2-11).
  • Features additional case studies, centered on the most frequently encountered clinical problems: parental conflict, marital conflict, anorexia nervosa, teenage rebellion, agitated depression, germ phobia, psychosomatic symptoms, drug addiction, single-parents, teenage parents (Chs. 2-11).

 

 

PREFACE.

1. Introduction: A Four-Step Model for Assessing Couples and Families.

I. TROUBLED CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS.

2. The Parentified Child.

3. Conflictual Couple/Triangulated Children.

 

II. STEP-FAMILIES.

4. The Teenager Who Was a Liar.

5. Three Dyads Are Less Than a Whole Family.

 

III. COMPLEMENTARY COUPLES.

6. .  Agitated Depression in an Adult Woman.

7.  The Woman Whose Hands Were Always Dirty.

 

IV. PSYCHOSOMATIC FAMILIES.

8.  Oedipus with Stomach Cramps.

9.  A Young Chinese Man with Anorexia Nervosa.

 

V. THE FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES

10. Three-Generations of Women.

11.  Residential Treatment of Drug Addiction and the Family.     

 

EPILOGUE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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