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Title Global perspectives in family therapy : development, practice, and trends / edited by Kit S. Ng
Published New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages)
Series Family therapy and counseling series
Family therapy and counseling series.
Contents Toward a global view of family therapy development / Kit S. Ng -- The development of family therapy and the experience of fatherhood in Japanese context / Takeshi Tamura -- Family therapy in Malaysia : an update / Kit S. Ng -- The emergence of family therapy in postmodern Singapore / Augustine Tan -- The beginning of family therapy in India / Radha Prabhu -- Systemic family therapy in Austria / Gerda Klammer -- The effects of family therapy in Italy / Paolo Bertrando -- Family therapy and family life cycle in Russia / Anna Varga -- Family therapy in France : a brief overview / Jean Francois Le Goff -- Reflections on forty years of family therapy, research, and systemic thinking in Greece / Basilia (Lia) Softas-Nall -- Indigenous family work in Nigeria : the Yoruba experience / Mary Adekson -- Finding our own voice : the development of family therapy in South Africa / Clara Gerhardt -- Family therapy in a multicultural society : the case of Israel / Yoav Lavee -- Family therapy in Brazil : memoir and development / Ju'lia Bucher, IIeno I. da Costa -- Observing the growth and development of family therapy in Ecuador / Ingeborg E. Haug
Summary Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends provides an overview of the development of family therapy throughout the globe and addresses the issues and concerns families are faced with in different cultural contexts. This book explores the diverse cultural approach to family therapy and suggests various clinical interventions that are helpful to clinicians dealing with families from different countries, including case studies, vignettes and research outcomes of family therapy overseas. Leading experts in the field explore the different aspects of family therapy in other 14 countries including the historical beginnings, current developments, training issues, theoretical variations, future trends, and research potential in family therapy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Family psychotherapy -- Cross-cultural studies
Cultural psychiatry.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Cross-cultural studies.
Family Therapy -- trends
Ethnopsychology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Couples & Family.
Cross-cultural studies
Cultural psychiatry
Family psychotherapy
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Ng, Kit S.
ISBN 9781135451455
1135451451
9780203009611
0203009614