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Pastoral counselors, therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment, which works better in some situations than in others. Integrative Family Therapy introduces the major schools of family therapy, proposes a tested model that integrates the various approaches, and illustrates how this model functions both for assessing and treating...

example, Ms. Garcia, a sixth-grade teacher, phones the Jeffersons because their son, Justin, has frequent angry outbursts that disrupt his class in school. Ms. Garcia had referred Justin to the school counselor, who has now recommended that Jemal and Paula Jefferson, Justin’s parents, seek family counseling. In the initial visit to Cynthia, a pastoral counselor, Jemal and Paula present Justin as a problem in school and want to know how Justin can be helped. “Shouldn’t he receive individual counseling?”
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