""Doing Family Therapy lives up to its title: it is informal, creative, personal, and pragmatic. Bulging with experience and practical tips, this book encourages the newcomer to leap into the family fray with both heart and eyes wide open. Taibbi takes the reader on a high-energy, fast-paced tour through most of what can happen to a family therapist with a constant underlying message, 'you can handle it.' A book full of courage and playful wisdom." --David B. Waters, Ph.D.
""Doing Family Therapy is not a 'brief' book--but that's the good news! Rather, it offers a respectful, practical, even philosophical stroll through the process of family therapy, from beginning with a family to eventual parting, providing the reader with a nondogmatic guide to what amongst psychotherapy's many lenses and techniques, might be most useful to bring with you. Importantly, Taibbi says out loud what most of us know, but don't acknowledge: We pick our therapeutic orientation based less on intellectual merits or efficacy research and more on what fits our personality, strengths and inclinations. How refreshing: Know yourself, your core values and personal philosophy and, with this awareness, be willing to dance with families. This book offers a terrific oasis for beginning therapists (and tired experienced ones!) thirsty for gentle guidance in learning how to trust what you know and courageously look at what you don't." --Edith C. Lawrence, Ph.D., Co-author of "Competence, Courage, and Change
"This is a terrific book! It is well-written, highly practical, and filled with fresh and clear clinical examples. It contains the kind of wisdom regarding each step in family therapy that I always wish I couldremember to tell my students but never do. For novices, it is like having a seasoned mentor describe just what to expect and offer a variety of useful responses. If this book had been around when I was starting out, my client families and I would have been saved untold traumas. Therapists who like to fly by the seat of their pants will fly much easier and in friendlier skies for having read this book." --Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago; co-author of" Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods; author of "Internal Family Systems Therapy
"A useful guide for all types of practitioners, the new as well as the seasoned. Taibbi provides the experienced clinician renewed interest and energy in the field and identifies the skills and resources necessary to maintain focus. Conversely, he gives novices what is missing--the confidence to trust their instincts, the courage to face inexperience, and the desire to uncover an approach or style that suits them best." --"Contemporary Psychology"
"This work, intended to guide the novice therapist, offers an uncommon training tool--a supervisor in a book. The author's voice conveys experience, a capable knowledge of the groundwork for competent functioning, and challenges the thinking of therapists-in-training. Each chapter concludes with a 'looking within' section to assist the therapist in self-reflection and personal growth...the experienced therapist/trainer can wisely recommend this book to new trainees. Thinking professionals and ambitious trainees will appreciate this book." --"Journal of Family Psychotherapy"
"For the beginner, "Doing Family Therapy" is more of a mentor than a how-to manual. One feels in the reading of this book the gentle guidance of a coach, a teacher, and a friend....The more experienced therapist will feel that he or she is having a leisurely an enriching chat with a mature and seasoned colleague, one with much to offer. There is a human thread running throughout this book that is generous in its breadth and deep in its wisdom....The book is rife with useful illustrations and good examples that clarify and amplify the author's intended point." --"The Family Journal"
""Doing Family Therapy" lives up to its title: it is informal, creative, personal, and pragmatic. Bulging with experience and practical tips, this book encourages the newcomer to leap into the family fray with both heart and eyes wide open. Taibbi takes the reader on a high-energy, fast-paced tour through most of what can happen to a family therapist with a constant underlying message, 'you can handle it.' A book full of courage and playful wisdom." --David B. Waters, Ph.D.
""Doing Family Therapy" is not a 'brief' book--but that's the good news! Rather, it offers a respectful, practical, even philosophical stroll through the process of family therapy, from beginning with a family to eventual parting, providing the reader with a nondogmatic guide to what amongst psychotherapy's many lenses and techniques, might be most useful to bring with you. Importantly, Taibbi says out loud what most of us know, but don't acknowledge: We pick our therapeutic orientation based less on intellectual merits or efficacy research and more on what fits our personality, strengths and inclinations. How refreshing: Know yourself, your core values and personal philosophy and, with this awareness, be willing to dance with families. This book offers a terrific oasis for beginning therapists (and tired experienced ones!) thirsty for gentle guidance in learning how to trust what you know and courageously look at what you don't." --Edith C. Lawrence, Ph.D., Co-author of "Competence, Courage, and Change"
"This is a terrific book! It is well-written, highly practical, and filled with fresh and clear clinical examples. It contains the kind of wisdom regarding each step in family therapy that I always wish I could remember to tell my students but never do. For novices, it is like having a seasoned mentor describe just what to expect and offer a variety of useful responses. If this book had been around when I was starting out, my client families and I would have been saved untold trauma
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Doing Family Therapy lives up to its title: it is informal, creative, personal, and pragmatic. Bulging with experience and practical tips, this book encourages the newcomer to leap into the family fray with both heart and eyes wide open. Taibbi takes the reader on a high-energy, fast-paced tour through most of what can happen to a family therapist with a constant underlying message, 'you can handle it.' A book full of courage and playful wisdom." --David B. Waters, Ph.D.
"Doing Family Therapy is not a 'brief' book--but that's the good news! Rather, it offers a respectful, practical, even philosophical stroll through the process of family therapy, from beginning with a family to eventual parting, providing the reader with a nondogmatic guide to what amongst psychotherapy's many lenses and techniques, might be most useful to bring with you. Importantly, Taibbi says out loud what most of us know, but don't acknowledge: We pick our therapeutic orientation based less on intellectual merits or efficacy research and more on what fits our personality, strengths and inclinations. How refreshing: Know yourself, your core values and personal philosophy and, with this awareness, be willing to dance with families. This book offers a terrific oasis for beginning therapists (and tired experienced ones!) thirsty for gentle guidance in learning how to trust what you know and courageously look at what you don't." --Edith C. Lawrence, Ph.D., Co-author of Competence, Courage, and Change
"This is a terrific book! It is well-written, highly practical, and filled with fresh and clear clinical examples. It contains the kind of wisdom regarding each step in family therapy that I always wish I could remember to tell my students but never do. For novices, it is like having a seasoned mentor describe just what to expect and offer a variety of useful responses. If this book had been around when I was starting out, my client families and I would have been saved untold traumas. Therapists who like to fly by the seat of their pants will fly much easier and in friendlier skies for having read this book." --Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago; co-author of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods; author of Internal Family Systems Therapy
