Foundational Concepts and Models of Family Therapy

Recent, global events highlight the vitality of mental healthcare to individual and collective well-being. The impact of these events on education, training, and delivery models of care has been tectonic. It has created gaps in healthcare delivery and exposed significant gaps in provider training. Necessity is the mother of invention . It is the impetus for significant workforce development trends in family therapy training. Seminal texts (1st order) that focus on systems theory and family therapy models often sacrificeapplication for overview. This critique has birthed additional family therapy clinical texts (2nd order) over time, that focus more on application, but none has managed to integrate systems theory and family therapy models in a comprehensive, applied way. Foundational Concepts and Models of Family Therapy: An Introduction for Online Learning achieves the Goldilocks Principle; it's just right. It's comprehensive, integrated, and applied. The editors and authors are to be commended, as this is a difficult feat, particularly when the application is for the online learning environment. Online healthcare education, training, and delivery is the future, and the demand is predicted to grow. The text represents the 3rd order change the field of family therapy needs as educators and training programs continue to ramp up to outcome-based, data-driven healthcare education that is vital in the 21st century. Christian Jordal, PhD, Chair, Counseling and Family Therapy Department Drexel University Former Editor, Journal of Family Psychotherapy. This book offers an amazing collection of helpful chapters which were written by seasoned MFT educators, teaching in an online environment. Readers are exposed to a strong introduction to systemic ways of thinking and practice and to a number of key MFT models of therapy. The book is written in a way that readers can engage the ideas in an interactive way and it has a strong application component. This book is uniquely helpful for those learning MFT in an online environment. Dale E. Bertram, PhD, Professor of MFT, Campbellsville University Louisville Systems thinking and practice in family therapy has proven to advance the understanding and connection of relationships. Exploring the theories identified in this book has pulled together the most important ways to utilize and practice MFT. Therapists from a variety of underpinnings can involve themselves in broadening the scope of application to our larger population. Thank you for such a thorough comprehensive computation for the MFT field. Tommie V. Boyd, PhD, LMFT.