Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice

This book was comforting, enlightening, and enriching. It is worth twice its price for the suggested readings alone. If you hope to find a book that rounds out the dry textbooks about counseling, this is the book to read. It stimulates thought and enables counselors-in-training to address some important issues that aren't covered in most curriculums.

Robert Taibbi's Doing Family Therapy is a great text for beginning family therapists. Taibbi presents a balanced perspective regarding family therapy's ups and downs for the therapist. He succintly synthesizes the basic skills needed to conduct a successful and productive course of treatment with any family. His case examples are especially helpful because he allows the reader to explore alternative paths to treatment decisions and then explains the path he took in the actual development of the case. I will always be grateful to the colleague (MBM) who recommended this book to me!

This is a superb book, written with humor and insight as only an experienced clinical social worker can provide. It is highly practical, extremely well written, concise, and entertaining to boot! It combines wisdom and advice on the various stages of family therapy and takes the reader on a fast-paced tour of what one can expect as a newcomer to the field. A must-read and must-have for all those new to this profession!