"Integrating Family Therapy" brings together family psychology and systems theory to explore the ways that systems therapists actually think and behave to bring about needed family change in the context of other systems. /// The theme of integration is carried through the book on several levels: integration of the family with school, work, medical, and other social systems; integration of research, theory, and systemic practice; and integration of methods and techniques from diverse schools of family therapy. /// With generous illustrative case material, [this volume] suggests ... ways of helping families in the current social context. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).