Reach every student with MyLab Helping Professions with Pearson eText New - MyLab® empowers you to reach every student. This flexible digital platform combines unrivaled content, online assessments, and customizable features so you can personalize learning and improve results, one student at a time. MyLab Helping Professions organizes all assignments around the CSWE EPAS for Social Work and CSHSE Standards for Human Services, enabling easy course alignment and reporting. MyLab Helping Professions for Family Therapy also includes mapping to the COAMFTE Standards. Learn more about MyLab Helping Professions. Pearson eText is an easy-to-use digital textbook available within MyLab that lets students read, highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place. If you''re not using MyLab, students can purchase Pearson eText on their own or you can assign it as a course to schedule readings, view student usage analytics, and share your own notes with students. Learn more about Pearson eText.

Text features: User-friendly features help students learn essential concepts and understand how theory is applied in practice Real-world examples, experiences, and first-hand knowledge are integrated throughout the text. Descriptions of the various models are based on actual experience with those models and their developers as well as on contributions of leading practitioners of those approaches. New - Essential Points at the beginning of each chapter provide brief summaries of the main ideas in the chapter. New - Questions to Consider at the start of each chapter introduce important concepts and set students up to think critically about the concepts, techniques, and principles presented. New - Key terms are highlighted throughout and are also included in an end-of-book glossary New - Essential Highlights are summarized at the end of each chapter. New - A Recommended Reading list is included at the end of each chapter. New - Review Questions and Reflection Questions at the end of each chapter are designed to help students think critically about the principles in the chapter and apply them to their life. New/updated - Additional real-world case studies with Reflect and Reply questions help students learn to think about how to apply therapeutic principles.

All of the cases presented are drawn from the authors'' own practice or from experts in the field. Current material helps students understand the field of family therapy today, including: Updated - An enhanced focus on clinical practice that helps readers gain a full understanding of how each theory makes sense of change, and what each theory looks like in practice Updated - Current research findings integrated into each chapter New - A new chapter about research (Ch. 14), which includes a discussion of why research has failed to influence clinical practice and suggestions New - Guidelines for productive problem-solving conversations Updated - A more concise chapter on Bowen family systems therapy (Ch. 4) Coverage of gender, culture, ethnicity, and ethical issues relating to family therapy are discussed throughout New - A new section on working with transgender persons (Ch. 10) Updated - A significantly revised cognitive-behavioral chapter (Ch. 9), with more focus on recent trends in clinical practice Reach every student with MyLab with Pearson eText Teach your course your way The Video Library provides a database of more than 400 video clips organized by course area. The videos showcase practicing helping professionals so that students can see a variety of techniques and theories in action, increase their observation time, and improve their analysis skills. Empower learners Automatically-graded Licensure/Credentialing Quizzes provide immediate feedback to help students prepare for their licensure and credentialing examinations, master foundational content, and improve their course performance.

Deliver trusted content Video- and case-based application exercises help students apply key concepts and develop the decision-making skills they need to become effective helping professionals. Pearson eText is an easy-to-use digital textbook available within MyLab that lets students read, highlight, and take notes all in one place. The mobile app lets students learn on the go, online or offline. Learn more about Pearson eText. Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what''s new in this edition.