Welcome to the Social Work Practice Skills and Issues Hall
North Hall: Home of: CSWE's Ten Core Competencies, NASW's Clinical Social Work Standards, The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, & Listings of Family Therapy/Counseling Journals.
*A Listing of the Dozens of Family Counseling/Therapy Journals*
http://library.ucf.edu/Reference/Guides/EducationJournals/MarriageFamTherapyJournals.asp
*Social Work and Sociology Journals*
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/socsci/docs/socialjournals.html
*Some of the Key Journals*
*American Journal of Family Therapy*
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01926187.asp
*American Journal of Orthopsychiatry*
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9432
*Clinical Social Work Journal*
http://www.springer.com/psychology/journal/10615
*Contemporary Family Therapy*
http://www.springer.com/psychology/journal/10591
*Journal of Family Therapy*
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-6427
*Journal of Marital and Family Therapy*
http://www.aamft.org/iMIS15/AAMFT/MFT_Resources/Journal_of_MFT/Content/JMFT/JMFT_page.aspx?hkey=6babf2ce-de8e-4ae7-ac75-cb991ab350a3
*Journal of Social Work Education*
http://www.cswe.org/Publications/JSWE.aspx
*The Clinical Social Work Journal: The Voice of Clinical Social Work*
http://www.clinicalsocialworkassociation.org/membership/order-clinical-social-work-journal
*The Family Journal: Counseling & Therapy for Couples & Families*
http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200924
*Family Therapy/Counseling Related Professional Organizations*
American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy
News about the field, a family therapist locator, & hot topics such as 'bullying'. To go to the website, click on this link: http://www.aamft.org/iMIS15/AAMFT/
South Hall: Home of "Jenny Talks Clinically to Dr. D."
Family Therapy/Family Counseling Overview
Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy, family systems, therapy and family counseling is a specialty shared by many professions, including social work. It focuses on working with families and couples in extended relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It views family relationships as an important factor healthy everyday life.
Regardless of the profession that trains practitioners, there are different models or schools of family therapy (see 'Jenny Talks Clinically With Dr. D, Volume Two, #4 below). These different models have in common a belief that, regardless of the origin of the problem, and regardless of whether the clients consider it an "individual" or "family" issue, involving families in solutions is often beneficial. This involvement of families is commonly accomplished by their direct participation in the counseling/therapy session. The skills of the family therapist thus include the ability to influence conversations in a way that catalyses the strengths, wisdom, and support of the wider system.
In the field's early years, many clinicians defined the family only as a traditional nuclear family in a narrow, traditional manner usually only including parents and children. As the field has evolved, the concept of the family is more commonly defined in terms of strongly supportive, long-term roles and relationships between people who may or may not be related by blood or marriage. Both 'nuclear' and 'extended' families are now the focus of intervention.
Family counseling therapy has been used effectively in the full range of human dilemmas; there is no category of relationship or psychological problem that has not been addressed with this approach. The conceptual frameworks developed by family therapists have been applied to a wide range of human behavior, including organizational dynamics and business relationships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_therapy
Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy, family systems, therapy and family counseling is a specialty shared by many professions, including social work. It focuses on working with families and couples in extended relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It views family relationships as an important factor healthy everyday life.
Regardless of the profession that trains practitioners, there are different models or schools of family therapy (see 'Jenny Talks Clinically With Dr. D, Volume Two, #4 below). These different models have in common a belief that, regardless of the origin of the problem, and regardless of whether the clients consider it an "individual" or "family" issue, involving families in solutions is often beneficial. This involvement of families is commonly accomplished by their direct participation in the counseling/therapy session. The skills of the family therapist thus include the ability to influence conversations in a way that catalyses the strengths, wisdom, and support of the wider system.
In the field's early years, many clinicians defined the family only as a traditional nuclear family in a narrow, traditional manner usually only including parents and children. As the field has evolved, the concept of the family is more commonly defined in terms of strongly supportive, long-term roles and relationships between people who may or may not be related by blood or marriage. Both 'nuclear' and 'extended' families are now the focus of intervention.
Family counseling therapy has been used effectively in the full range of human dilemmas; there is no category of relationship or psychological problem that has not been addressed with this approach. The conceptual frameworks developed by family therapists have been applied to a wide range of human behavior, including organizational dynamics and business relationships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_therapy
"Jenny Talks Clinically to Dr. D"
A set of columns written for the
beginning social work clinician
focusing on basics of clinical social work practice
especially emphasizing family counseling/family therapy.
Volume Two, Number 1:
Facts, Concepts, Theories, Models, and Paradigms
(In the Editing Room)
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Volume Two: Number 2:
Assertiveness Communication Model
(In the Editing Room)
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