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Understanding Family Relationships | |
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Counseling Today's Changing Families | |
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Today's Families: Some Demographic Notes | |
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Marriage and Divorce: Some Current Statistics | |
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Family Resiliency | |
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Changing Families, Changing Relationships | |
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A Family Counseling Sampler | |
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Summary | |
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The Family as a Social Unit: Systems Theory and Beyond | |
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Behavior in Family Context: Understanding Family Systems | |
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Linear and Circular Causality | |
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Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and Homeostasis | |
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Open and Closed Systems | |
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Subsystems and Boundaries | |
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Stability and Change | |
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Systems Theory and Family Counseling | |
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Systems Theory and Beyond | |
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The Self, the Family, and the Community | |
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Summary | |
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Appraising Couple and Family Functioning | |
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The Appraisal Process | |
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The Evaluation Phase | |
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The Initial Telephone Contact | |
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The Initial Session | |
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Mapping Family History and Family Processes | |
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The Assessment Phase | |
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Couple and Family Measurement Techniques | |
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Self-Report Measures | |
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The Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems | |
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) | |
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Observational Measures | |
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The Beavers Systems Model | |
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The McMaster Model | |
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Summary | |
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Multiple Views of Family Counseling: A Case Study | |
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A Variety of Intervention Models | |
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The Experiential Model | |
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The Transgenerational Model | |
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The Structural Model | |
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Strategic Models | |
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The Milan Model | |
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Social Constructionist Models | |
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Summary | |
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Intervening in Troubled Couple and Family Relationships | |
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Evidence-Supported Guidelines: The Use of Treatment Manuals | |
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Tailoring Techniques to Couples and Families | |
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Tailoring by Diagnosis | |
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Tailoring by Level of Relational Conflict | |
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Tailoring by Level of Family Functioning | |
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Marriage and Divorce Counseling | |
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Divorce Mediation | |
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Summary | |
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Counseling Families With Varied Lifestyles | |
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Counseling the Single-Parent-Led Family | |
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Changing Times: Patterns of Marriage and Divorce | |
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The Process of Divorce | |
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Living Through Divorce | |
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Varieties of Single-Parent Households | |
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Teenage Mothers | |
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Assessing Single-Parent-Led Families | |
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Common Problems in Single-Parent-Led Families | |
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The Custodial Parent | |
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The Noncustodial Parent | |
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The Children | |
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Child Custody, Child Support, and Visitation | |
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Child Custody Alternatives | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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Summary | |
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Counseling the Remarried Family | |
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Varieties of Remarried Family Structures | |
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Stepfamily Living Arrangements | |
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The Developmental Stages of Remarriage | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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Common Themes and Counselor Tasks | |
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Stepfamily Stages and Counselor Interventions | |
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Counseling on Multiple Tracks | |
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Whom to See and When | |
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Psychoeducational Programs | |
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Summary | |
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Counseling Cohabiting Heterosexual Adults | |
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Changing Mores, Changing Lifestyles | |
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The Mythology of Cohabitation | |
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Types of Student Cohabitation | |
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Adult Cohabitation: Trial Marriage or Substitute Marriage? | |
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Assessing Cohabiting Couples | |
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Counseling Unmarried Couples | |
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Premarital and Remarital Counseling | |
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PREPARE: A Premarital Inventory | |
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Summary | |
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Counseling Gay Male and Lesbian Families | |
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Some Basic Concepts and Terminology | |
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Being Gay in a Nongay World: The Coming-Out Process | |
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Gays and Lesbians: Similarities and Differences | |
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Assessing Gay and Lesbian Couples | |
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Achieving a Gay Identity | |
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Sexuality and the AIDS Epidemic | |
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Gay and Lesbian Parenting | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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HIV and AIDS Counseling | |
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Summary | |
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Counseling Families with Special Circumstances | |
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Counseling the Dual-Career Family | |
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Dual-Career Marriages: Balancing Work and Family Life | |
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Conceptualizing the Dual-Career Lifestyle | |
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Professional Women in Dual-Career Marriages | |
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Changing Domestic Role Patterns | |
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Sources of Stress in Dual-Career Lifestyles | |
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Commuter Marriages | |
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Adaptational Strategies and Family Systems | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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Summary | |
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Counseling Ethnically Diverse Minority Families | |
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Counseling African American Families | |
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Powerlessness and the African American Experience | |
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Racism, Discrimination, and the Victim System | |
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Family Structure and Kinship Networks | |
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Socialization Experiences and Male-Female Relationships | |
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Special Aspects of African American Family Life | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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Counseling Hispanic American Families | |
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Family Structure: The Role of the Extended Family | |
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Acculturation and Ethnic Identity | |
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Sex-Role Issues in Hispanic Cultures | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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Counseling Asian/Pacific American Families | |
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Cultural Transitions | |
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Family Structure and Responsibilities | |
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Values, Beliefs, Obligations | |
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Some Counseling Guidelines | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |