Social work practice with families : a resilliancy-based approach / Mary Van Hook, University of Central Florida.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-411) and index.

Preface -- Social work council on social work education competencies -- About the author -- The nature and sources of resiliency -- Setting the stage for work with families : development of the therapeutic alliance -- Assessment of families -- Cultural issues, family structure and resiliency -- Approaches to family therapy -- Social learning/cognitive family counseling -- Psychoeducational family counseling -- Structural family therapy -- Solution-focused family therapy -- Narrative family therapy -- Multisystems family therapy -- Bowen family systems therapy -- Object relations family therapy -- Spirituality -- Families coping with difficult life circumstances -- Conclusion.