This text and professional resource offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with “difficult” families. From a nonpathologizing stance,

This text and professional resource offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with “difficult” families. From a nonpathologizing stance,

Resistant, difficult, dysfunctional--these and other labels are often applied to families who have not been well served by traditional mental health, social ser

Aimed primarily at clinicians who are required to find ways to interrupt patterns of destructive behaviour in couples and families, this text provides a compila

This unique book presents actual case transcripts based on 12 different theories of family therapy. Each author describes his or her theoretical orientation and