Sigurd Reimers

Carolyn White

Andrew Treacher

The first part of the book critiques the historical development and current practice of family therapy and gradually introduces the reader to a user-friendly approach. The second part presents an action research project and reviews consumer studies of therapy, including social work, marriage guidance and family therapy research before concluding with guidelines for putting a user-friendly perspective into practice. Thought-provoking and practical in emphasis, this book places the user at the centre of the stage and insists that family therapy has now reached a stage where it needs to concentrate on becoming more genuinely empowering and user-friendly.

Introducing User-friendly Family Therapy

Describes in detail how the results of an action research project helped professionals involved in therapy to modify their approach and thus provide genuine user-friendly family therapy.

Andy Treacher

All too often the experience of users of family therapy is neglected in the theory and practice of family therapy as well as in the literature itself. In Introducing User-Friendly Family Therapy the authors describe in detail how the results of an action research project helped the professionals involved to modify their practice. They draw out the implications of the research for providing a genuinely user-friendly service and set the arguments for a more humanistic approach in the wider context of contemporary social policy. Thought-provoking and practical in emphasis, this book places the user at the centre of the stage and insists that family therapy can only flourish if it becomes genuinely empowering and user-friendly.

Sigurd Reimers

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