An Introduction to Systemic Therapy with Individuals: A Social Constructionist Approach

Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy

by Fran Hedges

In recent years, the benefits and applications of systemic therapy with individuals, in addition to its more traditional practice with families, has been increasingly recognized. This important new text provides trainees and practitioners new to this approach with a lively, accessible and thoroughly practical introduction to the key theoretical concepts and techniques.

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2005

Reviews

[Dan Edge · Rating 2 out of 5]

The content of this book was useful in helping me get an overview of systemic principles. My rating was largely based on my dislike of how the author presented these principles. They rely heavily on quoting the work of other authors and often fail to expand on what these quotes actually mean. This left me with a bunch of buzz words and phrases that underpin my, now very basic, understanding of systemic work. They also often present several clinical examples (good) but interchange between them multiple times throughout each chapter (bad). Fair enough that they want to provide a richer, more diverse example, but flipping back and forth between more than one example made the book very difficult to read at times.

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing application of systemic ideas to working with individuals, which is so important when the context of the NHS encourages so much one-to-one therapeutic work.