Presents a comprehensive model of integrating individual and family therapy with clinical examples to illustrate the model. Throughout the book, the importance of tailoring the structure and process of therapy to meet the particular needs of specific individuals and families is emphasized.

Individual and family therapy have developed as separate, often antagonistic, approaches to clinical work with children, adolescents, and adults. However, many clinicians have shown that the integration of individual and family therapy concepts and techniques has the potential to markedly enhance clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment of a wide range of emotional, behavioural, and family interactional problems. This volume presents a comprehensive model of integrating individual and family therapy and illuminates the model with clinical examples. Throughout the book, the importance of tailoring the structure and process of therapy to meet the particular needs of specific individuals and families is emphasized. With its meticulously detailed framework, which integrates individuals and families concepts, interview formats, and therapeutic techniques, this book provides the therapist with a systematic and powerful method for accomplishing this objective.

The few available books that deal specifically with men's issues tend to lack a central theoretical focus, are highly psychoanalytic in content, or simply do not provide specific guidelines for working with men. This unique and timely volume fills an important gap in the literature by demonstrating why change is often so difficult for them. It provides detailed guidelines for helping men initiate and sustain change in their personal, familial, and professional lives. The authors' approach is an integration of several theoretical schools including family systems, humanistic, experiential, and psychoeducational models. Using a psychosocial lens, they take men as individuals into account while examining the different roles males occupy as parents, husbands, workers, and friends. Separate chapters illustrate how each of these roles challenges men to confront many of the traditional and stereotypical messages that they have internalized from boyhood. The wide range of resulting problems--including depression, relationship conflicts, workaholism, and parenting difficulties--are discussed in relation to specific strategies which clinicians can employ to ameliorate them. Throughout, the authors use clinical vignettes and case examples to illustrate the ways practitioners can engage men and help them discover rewards of emotional vulnerability.