Includes appendix and index.

Contents: Part One: The context of family therapy: The foundations of family therapy -- The evolution of family therapy -- Early models and basic techniques: group process and communications analysis -- The fundamental concepts of family therapy -- Part Two: The classic schools of family therapy: Bowen family systems therapy -- Strategic family therapy -- Structural family therapy -- Experiential family therapy -- Psychoanalytic family therapy -- Cognitive -behavioral family therapy -- Part Three: Recent developments in family therapy: Family therapy in the twenty-first century -- Solution-focused therapy -- Narrative therapy -- Integrative models -- Part Evaluation of family therapy: Comparative analysis -- Advances in family therapy research.