Common Factors In Couple And Family Therapy

“A long-awaited, critically important contribution. The authors offer a guidebook for understanding and integrating the common factors that cut across distinct therapies, and also present an extraordinarily thoughtful and nonpolemical examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the common-factors strategy. This book will help advanced therapists better understand and sharpen what they do; will help intermediate and beginning-level therapists discover and utilize potent common factors that will enhance their effectiveness; will help theorists cast their ideas in a more generic and universally accessible language; and, lastly, will help researchers integrate common factors into their hypotheses and research designs. A huge step ahead for our field–read it.”–William M. Pinsof, PhD, President, The Family Institute at Northwestern University “The best antidote yet to technique-heavy approaches to couple and family therapy. This book restores appropriate attention to the role and the person of the therapist, and urges therapeutic flexibility and creativity. It is ‘must’ reading for anyone engaged in learning about systems-oriented therapy or teaching and supervising couple and family therapists.”–Alan S. Gurman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health