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
Mark A. Yarhouse 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. He is the author of many works, including Understanding Gender Dysphoria.
James N. Sells is professor of counseling and director of the PhD program in counselor education and supervision at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is also a licensed psychologist.
"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."
*Everett L. Worthington Jr., professor of psychology, Virginia
Commonwealth University*
"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."
*Siang-Yang Tan, Ph.D., professor of psychology, Fuller Theological
Seminary, and senior pastor, First Evangelical Church of Glendale,
California*
"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."
*Mark R. McMinn, Ph.D., ABPP, professor of psychology, George Fox
University, an`d coauthor of Integrative Psychotherapy*
"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."
*Gary J. Oliver, Th.M., Ph.D., professor of psychology and
practical theology, John Brown University*
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