• ISBN13: 9780415074308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 1995
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: GBP 69.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 581 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Psychotherapy / Couples & Family

All too often the experience of users of family therapy is neglected in the theory and practice of family therapy as well as in the literature itself. In Introducing User-Friendly Family Therapy the authors describe in detail how the results of an action research project helped the professionals involved to modify their practice. They draw out the implications of the research for providing a genuinely user-friendly service and set the arguments for a more humanistic approach in the wider context of contemporary social policy.
Thought-provoking and practical in emphasis, this book places the user at the centre of the stage and insists that family therapy can only flourish if it becomes genuinely empowering and user-friendly.

Clinical tutor to the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course and co-director of the Diploma Course in Family and Marital Therapy at the University of Exeter. He is based at the Department of Clinical and Community Psychology, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Wonford, where he works as a family therapist.