Family Therapies
Family Therapies

Family Therapies

A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal

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Christian therapists doing family therapy have never had a resource to help them navigate the various family therapy theories from a Christian perspective--until now. In this book Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat, within a Christian framework, significant psychotherapeutic issues. The wide array of issues covered includes Calling for an integrated approach of "responsible eclecticism," they conclude with a vision for Christian family therapy. A landmark work providing critical Christian engagement with existing models of family therapy, this volume was written for those studying counseling, social work, psychology or family therapy. will also serve as an indispensable resource for those in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers and pastors.
ISBN: 9780830878932
Producer: InterVarsity Press
Weight: 0.001kg
Binding: Digital delivered electronically
File size: 2.6MB
Release Date: 26.02.2010
Language: English

Book contents

Preface 1. A Christian Understanding for Family Therapy 2. Historical Foundations of Family Therapy 3. Bowenian Family Therapy 4. Strategic Family Therapy 5. Structural Family Therapy 6. Psychodynamic Family Therapy 7. Contextual Family Therapy 8. Experiential Family Therapy 9.. Solution-Focused Family Therapy 10. Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy 11. Narrative Family Therapy 12. Toward an Integrative Christian Family Therapy 13. Crisis and Trauma 14. Attending to Marital Conflict 15. Separation, Divorce and Remarriage 16. Individual Psychopathology 17. Substance Abuse 18. Gender, Culture, Economic Class and Race 19. Sexual Identity 20. Casting a Vision for Christian Family Therapy Author Index Subject Index

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James N. Sells
James N. Sells (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is professor of counseling and director of the Ph.D. program in counselor education and supervision at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he has taught since 2005. He has served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University and West Texas A&M University, and he is also a licensed psychologist. His research, private practice and teaching seminars have focused on marital conflict, reconciliation and forgiveness. Additionally, he has published work in clinical supervision, individual and group psychotherapy, and international applications of the counsling profession. Sells's research has been published in the and
Mark A. Yarhouse
Mark Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Hughes Endowed Chair and professor of psychology at Regent University where he directs the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity and is a core faculty member in the doctoral program in clinical psychology. A licensed clinical psychologist, he practices privately in the Virginia Beach area, providing individual, couples, family and group counseling. Yarhouse has published over eighty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or coauthor of several books, including and He serves on the editorial board of the and and has served as an ad hoc reviewer with