The last twenty years have seen an explosion of new, innovative, and empirically supported therapeutic approaches for treating families. Noted scholar and clinician Jay Lebow has brought together master therapists to guide practicing therapists and students through treatment approaches for the most commonly seen family problems.

Contributors xi Preface xv 1 Family Therapy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 1Jay L. Lebow PART I Problems in Children and Adolescents 2 Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed and Anxious Adolescents 17Guy S. Diamond 3 Family Therapy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 42Karen C. Wells 4 Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Adolescents with Behavior Problems 73viana E. Horigian, Lourdes Suarez-Morales, Michael S. Robbins, Mónica Zarate, Carla C. Mayorga, Victoria B. Mitrani, and José Szapocznik 5 Multisystemic Therapy for Adolescents with Serious Externalizing Problems 103Sonja K. Schoenwald and Scott W. Henggeler 6 Multidimensional Family Therapy: A Science-Based Treatment for Adolescent Drug Abuse 128Howard A. Liddle, Rosemarie A. Rodriguez, Gayle A. Dakof, Elda Kanzki, and Francoise A. Marvel 7 Functional Family Therapy for Externalizing Disorders in Adolescents 164Thomas L. Sexton and James F. Alexander PART II Problems in Adults 8 Psychoeducational Multifamily Groups for Families with Persons with Severe Mental Illness 195William R. McFarlane 9 Optimizing Couple and Parenting Interventions to Address Adult Depression 228Maya Gupta, Steven R. H. Beach, and James C. Coyne 10 Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse 251Gary R. Birchler, William Fals-Stewart, and Timothy J. O’Farrell 11 Making Treatment Count: Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Clinical Work with Problem Drinkers 281Scott D. Miller, David Mee-Lee, William Plum, and Mark A. Hubble 12 Family Therapy: Working with Traumatized Families 309Michael Barnes and Charles R. Figley PART III Couple Relationship Difficulties 13 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy 329Brian Baucom, Andrew Christensen, and Jean C. Yi 14 Brief Integrative Marital Therapy: An Interpersonal-Intrapsychic Approach 353Alan S. Gurman 15 Creating Secure Connections: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy 384Scott R. Woolley and Susan M. Johnson 16 Domestic Violence-Focused Couples Treatment 406Sandra M. Stith, Eric E. McCollum, Karen H. Rosen, Lisa D. Locke, and Peter D. Goldberg 17 Treating Affair Couples: An Integrative Approach 431Donald H. Baucom, Kristina C. Gordon, and Douglas K. Snyder 18 Couple Sex Therapy: Assessment, Treatment, and Relapse Prevention 464Barry W. McCarthy and L. Elizabeth Bodnar PART IV Relationship Difficulties in Families 19 Family Therapy with Stepfamilies 497James H. Bray 20 Integrative Family Therapy for Families Experiencing High-Conflict Divorce 516Jay L. Lebow 21 Differentiation and Dialogue in Intergenerational Relationships 543Mona DeKoven Fishbane 22 An Integrative Approach to Health and Illness in Family Therapy 569Anthony R. Pisani and Susan H. McDaniel 23 Families in Later Life: Issues, Challenges, and Therapeutic Responses 591Dorothy S. Becvar Author Index 611 Subject Index 621

The latest theory, research, and practice information for family therapy The last twenty years have seen an explosion of new, innovative, and empirically supported therapeutic approaches for treating families. Mental health professionals working with families today apply a wide range of approaches to a variety of situations and clients using techniques based on their clinically and empirically proven effectiveness, their focus on specific individual and relational disorders, their applicability in various contexts, and their prominence in the field. In this accessible and comprehensive text, each chapter covers specific problems, the theoretical and practical elements of the treatment approach, recommended intervention strategies, special considerations, supporting research, and clinical examples. The contributors provide step-by-step guidelines for implementing the approaches described and discuss particular issues that arise in different couple, family, and cultural contexts. Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy covers treatment strategies for the most common problems encountered in family therapy, including: Domestic violenceAdolescent defiance, anxiety, and depressionTrauma-induced problemsStepfamily conflictsADHD disruptionSubstance abuse in adults and adolescentsCouple conflict and divorceChronic illness A detailed reference for today's best treatment strategies, the Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy brings together the top practitioners and scholars to produce an innovative and user-friendly guide for clinicians and students alike.

"Without a doubt, Lebow's text should become the family clinician's primary 'ready-reference' office study guide for current individual, couple and family related clinical problems, as well as-if it has not already-become the preeminent undergraduate/graduate text of the day for therapists-in-training." —Doug Greenlee MA/MS (Journal of Marital and Family Therapy)