Marriage & Family Therapy Research Guide

Therapeutic Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy demonstrates the crucial importance of healthy working relationships with clients in couple and family therapy. The authors' conceptual model (System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) integrates theory, research, and practice related to the alliance in couple and family therapy. The book is rich in clinical case examples illustrating each SOFTA dimension with culturally diverse couples and families. including split alliances, therapist countertransference, problematic professional alliances, and working with involuntary and mandated clients. The observational and self-report instruments, available in both English and Spanish, are included as part of the book. They are also available free, along with a software version, on the Internet. Users can download their own videos into the software to rate the alliance for clinical or research purposes. Couple and family therapists, their supervisors, academics and graduate students, and researchers will all benefit from this book.

A leading scholar provides a comprehensive survey of major approaches to counseling and psychotherapy, offering a Christian critique and perspective.