This comprehensive textbook offers mental health professionals an essential resource for family therapy from a Christian integration perspective.

In this updated third edition of Family Therapies, Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey and evaluate the major approaches to family therapy and discuss significant issues in psychotherapy as they relate to family therapy. Issues covered include crisis and trauma; marital conflict; separation, divorce, and blended families; substance abuse and addictions; gender, culture, economic class, and race; sexual identity; cohabitation, LGBTQ+ marriage, and family formation.

What's new in the third edition:

• a new section on system theory
• new material on recent innovations in various family therapy models
• updated content on topics such as telehealth and technology in therapy, immigrant and refugee families, divorce, and LGBTQ+ clients
• updated research throughout

Yarhouse and Sells cast a vision for an integrative Christian family therapy and offer timely wisdom for therapeutic practice in the midst of a diverse and rapidly changing global context. Family Therapies is an indispensable resource for students and practitioners in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, and pastors.

About the Series

Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.