Family Therapy

Michael D. Reiter, PhD, is a professor of family therapy at Nova Southeastern University and author of Therapeutic Interviewing (Pearson, 2007), Case Conceptualization in Family Therapy (Pearson, 2014), The Craft of Family Therapy (Routledge, 2014)—written with Dr. Salvador Minuchin—, and Substance Abuse and the Family (Routledge, 2015).

Preface Part I: THINKING OF A FAMILY THERAPIST 1. General Systems Theory 2. Self of the Therapist 3. Who is Your Client? 4. Diversity Part II: SKILLS OF A FAMILY THERAPIST 5. Beginning the Family Therapy Session 6. Basic Empathy Skills 7. Advanced Empathy Skills 8. Mutualization 9. Effective Use of Questions 10. Use of Self in Therapy 11. Dealing with Intensity 12. Goal Setting and Termination Part III: THEORY OF A FAMILY THERAPIST 13. Intergenerational Family Therapies 14. Experiential Family Therapies 15. Strategic Family Therapies 16. Systemic Family Therapies 17. Postmodern Family Therapies 18. Future of Family Therapy Appendix: Master "Cheat" Sheet References