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#CBR6 #23-25: Systems Therapy, Genograms, and Helping Skills

More textbooks! I swear this isn’t all I read, but when you have to read so much for school, the last thing you want to do when you have free time is crack open another book (so shameful, really, but I just got a few new comic books I should be able to work my way through soon!). And so, here are a few more of my required readings for my current educational program in art therapy. This joint review is for the following: - Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination (2 nd edition) by Patterson, Williams, Edwards, and Chamow - Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (3 rd edition) by McGoldrick, Gerson, and Petry - Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action (4 th edition) by Clara E. Hill First things first, “Essential Skills in Family Therapy” focuses on the basics of working with families and other systems in therapy. What I liked most about it was the fact that they did not assume the reader would be well-versed in