The Routledge International Handbook of Couple and Family Therapy is a comprehensive text that promotes innovative frameworks and interventions in couple and family therapy from a cross cultural perspective.
A diverse range of international contributors explore the role that demography, regionality, cultural and political crises, and policy, have on the issues faced by couples and families. Collectively, the chapters articulate unique ideas in conceptualizing the needs of families with international backgrounds, adapting the current models and frameworks to work with this population most effectively. The text is split into four sections covering: personal voices and philosophical perspectives, theory and models, specific applications with international populations, and emerging perspectives.
This handbook is essential for individual practitioners, researchers, psychotherapists, and related mental health professionals, as well as academics with an interest in working with couples and families.
Table of Contents:
Section I: Personal Voices and Philosophical Perspectives 1. The State of Couple and Family Therapy Internationally 2. Addressing Existential Concerns in Families Amongst Contemporary Shifts: A Psychoanalytic, Object Relations Perspective 3. Milan School of Family Therapy 4. A Narratological Study of a Family-Therapeutic Case History 5. Family Rituals 6. Lived and Successful Sexuality: A Challenge for Couple and Family Therapy Section II: Theories and Models in an International Context 7. Sociocultural Attunement in Family Therapy 8. Socio-Relationally Responsive Supervision for Inclusive Learning: A Discursive Perspective 9. Emotional Divorce and Couples Therapy in Iran 10. 'It's more than I can manage': Psychosocial Counseling and Family Therapy for Refugees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 11. Bi-National and Multicultural Expat Couples in Mexico City: Exploring Covert Cultural Contracts 12. Systemic Family Therapy in Africa: Past, Present, and Future Trends 13. The Development of Cambodian Family Therapy 14. Taiwanese Couples and Families: Current Treatment Perspectives 15. Bosphorus Connecting Europe and Asia: Couple and Family Therapy in Turkey 16. The Therapeutic Dance of Bowenian Therapy and South Asian Families: Issues to Consider Section III: Specific Applications with International Populations 17. Medical Family Therapists Working with Culturally Diverse Patients - Using the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model with Chronically and Terminally Ill Patients and their Families 18. Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Global Practices 19. Bridging Training and Experiences: Expanding Clinical Practices with Latinx Communities 20. Recommendations for Working with Trauma Within Incarcerated Couples and Families 21. Addressing Technology Misuse in Relationships: A Cross Cultural Therapeutic Perspective 22. Cross-Cultural Technology Use in Maintaining Romantic and Familial Relationships 23. Experientialism: Finding Unconditional Positive Regard in a World of Chaos 24. Immigrant and Refugee Families:: Theory and Practice 25. Systemic Therapy in Central and South America: Past, Present, and Future Section IV: Emerging Perspectives 26. Risks and Side-Effects in Systemic Family Therapy 27. Interracial Couples: Clinical Considerations for a Contemporary World 28. Sino-American Family Therapy: A Chinese Perspective on Traditional Western Family Therapy Methods 29. An Adaptive Application of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Iranian Immigrant Couples 30. Yoruba Nigerian and European-American Couples: International Considerations for Therapy 31. Practicing Couple Therapy in the Middle East: Arab and Muslim Related Critiques and Clinical Considerations 32. Towards a Bicultural Parenting Model for South Asian Immigrant Parents 33. An Integration of Collaborative Language Systems and Symbolic Experiential Family Therapy with Transnational Families 34. Relational Resiliency in an Age of Digital Chaos: Collective Strategies for Prevention and Healing in an Electronic World
About the Author :
Katherine M. Hertlein, Ph.D., (she/her) is a Professor in the Couple and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She received her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University Calumet and her doctorate in human development with a specialization in marriage and family therapy from Virginia Tech. Across her academic career, she has published over 90 articles, 12 books, and over 50 book chapters. She is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. She was a 2018-2019 Fulbright Core Scholar, and in this role, served as a Visiting Lecturer and Guest Researcher at the University of Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria. She lectures nationally and internationally on technology, couples, and sex. Dr. Hertlein maintains a private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada.
