(BQ) Part 2 book “Case studies in child, adolescent , and family treatment” has contents: Case studies in family treatment and parent training, case studies in child we lf are and adoption, case studies in school and community settings. | 3 Case Studies in Family Treatment and Parent Training So many different versions of family exist today. A family is increasingly less likely to consist of a mother, father, and children. Instead, a family may be blended, extended, common law, or single parent. Even a single‐parent family may defy our stereotypes, being made up of a single father and his son, as in one of the case studies in this section. Families may be part of a majority culture, or they may have roots in a different culture that influences their dynamics and actions. Regardless of their structure, families consist of human beings who coexist and interact. Just as there are a plethora of family models, there are myriad ways of approaching family treatment. Thompson and Rudolph (2011) point out the similarities within the various models of family treatment. First, they note that within most schools of family treatment, the entire family system may need to change in order for lasting behavioral change to occur. Second, family therapy encompasses the goal of finding a more comfortable balance of power and roles within the system. Third, in order to achieve new balance, the current dysfunctional patterns may need to be disturbed. The practitioner 182 Case Studies in Family Treatment and Parent Training 183 must ensure that this process is safe for all family members. Finally, family therapy borrows from all other approaches to mental health treatment. Family treatment is particularly crucial in the resolution of problems with children and adolescents, as this population is practically completely dependent on their families for physical, emotional, and social support. In fact, on reflection, almost every case study in this book contains some aspect of working with the client’s family, in the many different guises that family takes. There are three case studies in this chapter. In the first, Gladow, Pecora, and Booth offer a moving portrait of the great strides made by a family composed of a .
