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Download full textSmith, Robert L.; Stevens-Smith, Patricia – 1992
Counselors working in the areas of marriage and family counseling and therapy are expected to work effectively with couples and families experiencing a variety of issues and problems. Structural, strategic, and transgenerational family therapists may seem to be operating in similar manners, and it appears that many practicing family therapists go…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Family Counseling, Marriage Counseling
Peer reviewedBernstein, Barton E.; Collins, Sheila K. – Family Relations, 1985
Summarizes problems specific to remarrying families with children including complex kinship networks, ill defined roles, and financial and legal issues. Focuses on the family counselor's involving an attorney in services to remarrying families, with discussions of pre-marital agreements, inventories, living trust, estate planning, post-marital…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Kinship, Lawyers, Legal Problems
Stevens-Smith, Patricia; Hughes, Marcia M. – 1993
This monograph focuses on practical information and offers guidelines for professional counselors who practice marriage and family counseling. It discusses the importance of specialized training for professional counselors to ensure working ethically with couples and families, and it reviews divorce, child custody, and child abuse and neglect,…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Divorce, Family Counseling
Peer reviewedKantor, David; Kupferman, Wendy – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1985
Presents framework for thinking about interactions between client and therapist systems in relation to participants' personal explanatory systems and models of reality. Examines therapist contributions to forming structures, elements of covert interview of therapist performed by client system, model for therapist training, and case presentation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Role, Family Counseling
PDF pending restorationWeinstein, Charles D.; And Others – 1984
The social learning approach to marital and family therapy is a didactic approach calling for an active and directive therapist and a collaborative client. To examine the variability of therapist and client behaviors within sessions and across the course of treatment, 24 families, in marital and family therapy, participated in the study. Families…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Role, Family Counseling, Family (Sociological Unit)
Kochalka, James; And Others – 1983
This paper describes a psychoeducational procedure known as Covenant Contracting, which is used in the training of family psychologists at Georgia State University. The training framework for clinical experience is described, and the philosophical underpinning for this particular clinical sequence is summarized. The rationale for Covenant…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Counselor Training
