Howard A. Liddle, PhD, ABPP, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of MedicineRichard C. Schwartz, PhD, the developer of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, is on the adjunct faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has devoted his career to evolving and disseminating IFS, which now is being taught all over the world. Dr. Schwartz founded the Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois, which coordinates IFS trainings in the United States and internationally. He is a featured speaker at many national conferences and has published more than 50 articles and books about IFS and other psychotherapy topics. His website is https://selfleadership.org.

"The first major overview in the field of training in family therapy...a state of the art update and jump board for the imagination...it becomes immediately a necessary reference." --Carlos E. Sluzki, MD, Editor, Family Process; Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield - A valuable and far-reaching text. --Journal of Family Psychology, 6/19/1988

• Preface, SECTION ONE OVERVIEW 1 Family Therapy Training and Supervision: An Introduction SECTION TWO FAMILY THERAPY MODELS: APPROACHES TO TRAINING 2 Teaching the Structural Way 3 The Milan Training Program 4 Training in Bowen Theory 5 Training in the Brief Therapy Model 6 Training Strategic Therapists: The Use of Indirect Techniques 7 An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systems Approach 8 functional Family Therapy: Basic Concepts and Training Program SECTION THREE PRAGMATICS OF SUPERVISION 9 Systemic Supervision: Conceptual Overlays and Pragmatic Guidelines 0 The Trainer-Trainee Relationship in Family Therapy Training 11 Muddles in Live Supervision 12 Cybernetics of Videotape Supervision 13 Concurrent Training of Supervisors and Therapists SECTION FOUR CONTEXTS FOR TRAINING 14 Training and Supervision in Degree-Granting Graduate Programs in Family Therapy 15 Born Free: The Life Cycle of a Free Standing Postgraduate Training Institute 16 Family Therapy Training in Psychiatry 17 Nursing and Family Therapy Training 18 Family Therapists Teaching in Family Practice Settings: Issues and Experiences 19 Academic Psychology and Family Therapy Training 20 Marriage and Family Therapy and Graduate Social Work Education SECTION FIVE SPECIAL ISSUES 21 Learning to Think Culturally 22 Reflections on Supervision 23 Research 24 Family Therapy Training-It's Entertainment 25 Outcomes of Live Supervision: Trainee Perspectives EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF FAMILY THERAPY