Family Therapy Review : Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations

This book offers a clear, readable overview of allthe knowledge and skills those training as marriage and family therapists and counselors need to pass final degree program, certification or licensing examinations. It is organized into three sections: Basic Clinical Knowledge and Skills, Common Client Problems,and Career Issues.Each chapter includes challenging study questions that enable readers to assess their own level of understanding--15 true/false questions at the outset checking on baseline knowledge, 30 multiple-choice questions interspersed through the text underlining crucial points, and 10 provocative discussion questions at the end facilitating synthesis. Each chapter also provides a glossary of key terms and, in addition to references, annotated suggestions for further reading and Web site exploration. Students and trainees will find Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinationsa resource to which they will go on referring long after it has helped them through their examinations; faculty and established professionals will find it a useful one-stop summary of current thinking about best practice.

Robert Holman Coombs, Ph.D., C.A.S., Professor of Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, is trained as a sociologist, counseling psychologist, family therapist, certified addiction specialist, and certified group psychotherapist. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he serves on the International Certification Advisory Committee of the American Academy of Healthcare Providers in the Addictive Disorders.
When a member of the California Commission for the Prevention of Drug Abuse, he developed the conceptual framework that guided the Commissions' activities. Dr. Coombs has authored or edited more than 200 publications, including 18 books. He received the Award for Excellence in Education from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, the Distinguished Faculty Educator Award from the University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, and was a Nominee for the Faculty Excellence Award from the University of California at Los Angeles Mortar Board Senior Honors Society.