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Summary: This book is great if you want to be 50 years out of date.
Review: This book is full out completely sexist and outdated information. For example, it refers to overbearing parenting as "Momism", suggests that schizophrenia is caused by bad parenting, and regularly cites questionable research from the 1950s. I suspect that the positive reviews for this book were posted by the publisher or by the author himself. This book will actually damage you if you try to use it to learn how to be a counselor.
Skip this book and read something that is actually informed by the developments from the last 50 years. Maybe in 2050 L'Abate will write about the things that are going on now.
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Summary: A look inside the family crucible.
Review: The mental health field has a propensity to look for the root causes of psychopathology either within the person, i.e. intra-
psychic or neurobiological, or as a result of socialization. For some obscure reason, the family component is rarely considered. This book seeks to remedy this oversight. Family Pathology takes a probing look at the relational roots of dysfunctional behavoir. Genetics, physiology, and society may play roles in the development of maladaptive behvior, but the individual is embedded in a family structure that mediates these influences for better of for worse. This book also includes chapters on family therapy, preventive approaches, and parent training programs. To date, the psychopathology literature has not had such a thorough treatment of the family's role in dysfunctional behavior; this book changes that by offering an insightful look into the "nature-nurture" assumptions. A must read for grad. students and practioners alike.
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