Applying Family Therapy: A Guide for Caring Professionals in the Community (Paperback)

Applying Family Therapy: A Guide for Caring Professionals in the Community Book Description

Using case illustrations, evidence-based guidance, and supported with extensive references, this valuable learning resource will help students, practitioners, managers, and trainers to provide holistic support and effective services. "A refreshing read in places positively inspiring... a welcome addition to the literature on how to engage with families and focus on the areas of concern whilst also maximising the emphasis on change potential and strengths." Martin C. Calder. a carefully written, concise bookrelating methodologies and skills developed in family therapy to broader applications. Written by practitioners for practitionersThe authors set out to bring together two types of practice - that geared to social inequalities and that geared to therapy - noting that each practice type has historically marginalised the others discourse. It acknowledges similarities, but it does not seek conceptual merger or closure. Along the way, the conversation bears considerable fruit.

About the Author :

Steven Walker has contributed to Applying Family Therapy: A Guide for Caring Professionals in the Community as an author. Steven Walker is a deacon of an evangelical church in Lancaster. He was brought up to attend church and Sunday school but did not come to faith in Christ until his midteens. During the past twenty years he has been involved in leading midweek meetings for children and teenagers teaching a teenage Sunday school class and running the churchs annual holiday Bible club. From time to time he also preaches and leads Bible studies. He derives great pleasure from the natural world and from music particularly folk music and folkblues and he plays the guitar. He and his wife Sarah have two grownup child

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