Couple And Family Assessment Contemporary Measures And Cutting-Edge Strategies | Mental Health

This fourth edition text features the latest most common and important assessment measures and strategies for addressing problematic clinical issues related to working with families couples and children. Chapters provides strategies for systematically utilizing these various assessment measures with a wide range of family dynamics that influence couples and families. These include couples conflict divorce separation mediation premarital decisions parenting conflicts child abuse family violence custody evaluation and child and adolescent conditions i.e. depression anxiety conduct disorder bipolar disorder obsessive compulsive disorder autism Asperger’s syndrome and learning disorders that can significantly influence family dynamics. Filled with extensive clinical case material that illustrates the use of these various assessment measures and strategies in an array of clinical situations this edition is filled with new assessment devices as well as a new chapter on family trauma and family chronic illness. This book is essential reading for both students in family and couple therapy courses as well as practitioners working with families couples and children. |Couple and Family Assessment Contemporary Measures and Cutting-Edge Strategies | Mental Health