ISBN: 1462557023 9781462557028

Category: Medical / Internal Medicine

Page count: 312

"The purpose of this book is to help therapists be developmentally-informed from a systemic, biopsychosocial, strengths-based perspective. Although we write about the common issues and challenges that individuals and families experience at different stages and transitions of life, this book is not intended to be a manual for living. Rather, it's an exploration of shared experiences and a way of approaching life that is optimistic. How effectively are my clients coping with this current change? Is this working out the way that they hoped? Our primary goals are to make developmental theory and family science clinically relevant and increase therapists' awareness and empathy for common experiences presented by their clients"--