A review by lucibello
Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration Plus Mylab Search with Etext -- Access Card Package by Dorothy Stroh Becvar, Raphael J. Becvar

informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

I've read this book twice, once while in grad school to be a marriage and family therapist, and one says a refresher about three or four years later. I just finished it for the second time and had many of the same opinions, it's way too much fluff. The book works hard to justify its postmodernist approach, meaning that there are quite a few contradictions. For instance, it absolutely declares no absolutes, that type of thing. It also played a lot of semantic games, such as equating influence with manipulation, and perhaps this is a worldview thing but I do not see those as synonymous at all. So the book is a love-hate for me.