{"product_id":"essential-assessment-skills-for-couple-and-family-therapists-9781462516407","title":"Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists","description":"Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for evaluating a wide range of clinical issues and concerns with adults, children and adolescents, families, and couples. The authors demonstrate ways to use interviewing and other techniques to understand both individual and relationship functioning, develop sound treatment plans, and monitor progress. Handy mnemonics help beginning family therapists remember what to include in assessments, and numerous case examples illustrate what the assessment principles look like in action with diverse clients. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e See also the authors' \u003ci\u003eEssential Skills in Family Therapy, Third Edition: From the First Interview to Termination\u003c\/i\u003e, which addresses all aspects of real-world clinical practice, and \u003ci\u003eClinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee Williams, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and does couple therapy with veterans at the VA San Diego Medical Center. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Todd M. Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Professor and Director of the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Larry Chamow, PhD, LMFT, is Clinical Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and is in full-time private practice at the Pacific Family Institute in Carlsbad, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Guilford Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524499673362,"sku":"9781462516407","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_756847a3-668f-4287-9b37-d7cafa71889f.jpg?v=1731181235","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/essential-assessment-skills-for-couple-and-family-therapists-9781462516407","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}