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Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (7th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dorothy Stroh Becvar, Raphael J. Becvar
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 12256
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0205609236
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89156
EAN: 9780205609239
Publication Date: October 16, 2008
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Product Description
This comprehensive, yet user-friendly survey of the field of marriage and family therapy emphasizes the systemic/cybernetic perspective. The systemic-cybernetic framework helps readers understanding people and families in context. The text – divided into three sections including "The Systemic Framework," "The Practice of Family Therapy," and "The Systemic Practitioner" – includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a “dynamic process model” for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models considered include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic, and behavioral/cognitive as well as several postmodern approaches. Within the context of practice, Assessment; Intervention; Training/Supervision; Research; and Epistemological Challenges are described and discussed
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 Ugh! December 9, 2008
Evan Lanier (Denver, CO USA)
I agree with several of the other reviewers. This book isn't difficult but it is terribly written. Consider the following sentence on page three, "Thus, if you, and especially if your parents as well, were educated in Western society, you likely were immersed in a perspective derived from the thinking of John Locke, and those who followed him, about the appropriate rules for theory construction and methodology in the physical sciences." - Uh... come again?
The pretentiousness of this sort of poor academic writing betrays it as a kind of intellectual kitsch, analogous to bad art that declares itself "profound" or "moving" not by displaying its own intrinsic value but by borrowing these values from elsewhere.
Yuck. November 29, 2008
izmo
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's not that this book is too difficult, it's just poorly written. The Nichols/Schwartz book is much better. This book was assigned for MFT Theory class, and I ended up throwing it away (literally) and getting the Nichols/Schwartz book. I probably read 150 books on my way to getting an MFT education, and this was the worst book in the entire curriculum. Sad that there are so few survey texts available on MFT theory.
 Great masters level Text November 23, 2007
Desi (Florida)
Used in a Cybernetics of Cybernetics and System Thinking class. A little tough to get thruw but if you keep reading it eventually comes into place. Don't give up until you get thru chapter 6. Good Luck
Fine service February 6, 2007
S. Clarkson (Fort Wayne IN)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The condition of the item was as stated and it was received by the date given.
 MSW Student January 17, 2006
Ericalynn Brown (Florissant, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are interested in any aspect of family practice, this book is a must have. I must agree with prior reviews of the book--it is definitely a hard read. Fortunately, I had the privilege of being taught the author(s)-Dr. Becvar is/was on of my professors. Once the class ended, I understood the systemic approach to family therapy.
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