This book is a fresh, lucid approach from experts who understand today's families and will help your students understand the major issues in family dynamics and how to deal with them. The text includes the important topics of single parents, blended families, child abuse, children of alcoholics, the AIDS family, changing family patterns, and much, much more.

Contents

Part One: Introduction to Today's Families

1. Strong Healthy Families
2. Marital and Family Therapy
3. Changing Family Patterns

Part Two: Strategies

4. Family Counseling
5. An Adlerian Approach to Marital Counseling
6. Brief Sexual Counseling
7. Family Mediation
8. Necessary Skills for Parenting

Part Three: Issues

9. Helping Single-Parent Families
10. Remarriage Families
11. Counseling Minority Families
12. Counseling the Elderly
13. Child Abuse
14. Children of Alcoholics
15. The AIDS Family

280 pages
1991/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-219-0
$34.95