Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A Christian understanding for family therapy -- Historical foundations of family therapy -- Bowenian family therapy -- Strategic family therapy -- Structural family therapy -- Psychodynamic family therapy -- Contextual family therapy -- Experiential family therapy -- Solution-focused family therapy -- Cognitive-behavioral family therapy -- Narrative family therapy -- Toward an integrative Christian family therapy -- Crisis and trauma -- Attending to marital conflict -- Separation, divorce, and remarriage -- Individual psychopathology -- Substance abuse -- Gender, culture, economic class, and race -- Sexual identity -- Casting a vision for Christian family therapy.