Family Therapies

In Family Therapies, Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat significant psychotherapeutic issues within a Christian framework. A landmark work, this volume was written for those studying counseling, social work, psychology, or marriage and family therapy.Fully updated and revised, this second edition includes new chapters on cohabitation, LGBT+ marriage, and family formation.Other issues covered include



- crisis and trauma

- marital conflict

- separation, divorce, and blended families

- substance abuse and addictions

- gender, culture, economic class, and race

- sexual identity

Yarhouse and Sells conclude by casting a vision for an integrative Christian family therapy and offer timely wisdom for therapeutic practice in the midst of a diverse and rapidly changing global context.Family Therapies is an indispensable resource for those in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, and pastors.

Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.



James N. Sells (PhD, University of Southern California) is professor of counseling and director of the PhD program in counselor education and supervision at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he has taught since 2005. He has served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University and West Texas AM University, and he is also a licensed psychologist. He is the coauthor of Counseling Couples in Conflict and Family Therapies.Sell?s research, private practice, and teaching seminars have focused on marital conflict, reconciliation, and forgiveness. Additionally, he has published work in clinical supervision, individual and group psychotherapy, and international applications of the counseling profession. His research has been published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of Counseling and Development, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, The Family Journal, Journal of Family Therapy, and Journal of College Student Development.



Mark A. Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Hughes Endowed Chair and professor of psychology at Regent University where he directs the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity and is a core faculty member in the doctoral program in clinical psychology. A licensed clinical psychologist, he practices privately in the Virginia Beach area, providing individual, couples, famil,y and group counseling.Yarhouse has published over eighty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or coauthor of several books, including Understanding Gender Dysphoria, Modern Psychopathologies, Understanding Sexual Identity , Sexuality and Sex Therapy, and Homosexuality and the Christian. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Psychology and Theology and Christian Counseling Today, and has served as an ad hoc reviewer with Journal of Homosexuality.

Preface
Part I: Foundational Considerations


1. A Christian Understanding for Family Therapy


2. Historical Foundations of Family Therapy
Part II: Models of Family Therapy


3. Bowenian Family Therapy


4. Strategic Family Therapy


5. Structural Family Therapy


6. Psychodynamic Family Therapy


7. Contextual Family Therapy


8. Experiential Family Therapy


9.. Solution-Focused Family Therapy


10. Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy


11. Narrative Family Therapy


12. Toward an Integrative Christian Family Therapy
Part III: Integration of Family Theory with Critical Issues in Psychotherapy


13. Crisis and Trauma


14. Attending to Marital Conflict


15. Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage


16. Individual Psychopathology


17. Substance Abuse


18. Gender, Culture, Economic Class, and Race


19. Cohabiting Couples and Families: Christian Counseling's New Reality


20. LGBT+ Couples and Families
Part IV: Casting a Vision


21. Conclusion: Casting a Vision for Christian Family Therapy


Author Index


Subject Index

"Yarhouse and Sells have created a masterpiece work analyzing approaches to family therapies. This is going to be a new classic, matching the accomplishment of Jones and Butman's analysis of psychotherapies in their book, Modern Psychotherapies."



"Mark Yarhouse and James Sells have written a very helpful book that is comprehensive, biblically based and well-written. I highly recommend it as an excellent text for those interested in a Christian approach to family therapy."



"In Family Therapies, Yarhouse and Sells provide an important resource for Christian scholars and therapists. The first two sections provide a thoughtful foundation and Christian critique of existing therapy models, reminiscent of what Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman accomplished in their classic book, Modern Psychotherapies, but with a focus on models of family therapy. The third section, which could have been a book on its own, looks at contemporary issues in relation to a Christian perspective on family therapy. The final section casts a vision for an integrative model of family therapy. This is a significant book that will help shape the training and practice of Christian therapists."



"Yarhouse and Sells have written a practical, concise, invaluable, one- of-a-kind resource that integrates biblical, theological, psychological, theoretical, clinical and practical resources in ways that help the reader look at the family and family therapy through different lenses and better understand the individual in the context of their broader family system. This book will be read and reread by a broad audience." weniger anzeigen expand_less