Out of Control: Family Therapy and Domestic Disorder

by Jaber F. Gubrium

Book Overview

Counselling techniques that can help families regain control and causes of families breaking up are among the topics explored in this ethnographic account of therapeutic sessions. Two very different views of what a family is and how it becomes out of control′ emerge, resulting in vastly different therapeutic approaches.

Gubrium compares two family counselling facilities - a community outpatient centre and a private family-focused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803946333
• ISBN13: 9780803946330
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"