Foundations of Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy

Valerie Q. Glass, PhD, LMFT, is a professor in the College of Marriage and Family Sciences at Northcentral University, USA. Carissa D’Aniello, PhD, is an assistant professor of marriage and family therapy at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Susan N. Perkins, PhD, is an associate professor of counseling and clinical director of the on-site clinic at Northwest Nazarene University, USA. She also maintains a group practice in family counseling.

Section I: Introduction 1: Introduction to Systemic Therapeutic Alliances 2: How a System Works: Theoretical Understanding of Systems 3: Connecting to the System 4: Common Factors in Professional Helping Relationships 5: Balancing Legal and Ethical Guidelines Section II: Tools and Techniques for Building Systemic Therapeutic Alliance 6: The Basics: Skills for Establishing Therapeutic Alliance 7: Setting the Stage: Tools for Beginning Phases of Helping Relationships 8: Let’s Get Down to Business: Tools for Working Phases of Helping 9: Finishing Up and Moving On: Tools for the Closing Phase of Helping Relationships 10: When Something Just Isn’t Quite Right: Addressing Challenges to the Therapeutic Alliance Section III: Model Specific Helping 11: Applying a Theoretical Systemic Understanding to Helping 12: Examples, Tools, Techniques of Specific Models Section IV: Understanding Self in the Context of the System 13: Starting with “Who am I?”: Cultural Competency 14: Family Experience 15: Personal Triggers Section V: Applications Skills with Various Clients and Organizational Structures 16: Various Client Structures 17: Larger Systemic Work