Family Therapy Case Conceptualization Creating Therapeutic Stories Across Models

1.      Creating Therapeutic Stories                                              Michael D. Reiter

2.      The Effectiveness of Case Conceptualizations:                  Kyle Killian

A Brief Primer                             

3.      The Daniels Family                                                             Michael D. Reiter

4.      Bowen Family Systems Therapy                                        Tequila Hill & Cindy McIntire

5.      Contextual Family Therapy                                                 Kelly Heenan & Natalie Richardson

6.      Object Relations Family Therapy                                       George Pate & Michael D. Reiter

7.      Adlerian Family Therapy                                                     Len Sperry, Marina Bluvshtein, & Jon

Sperry

8.      Satir’s Experiential Family Therapy                                    Kayleigh Sabo

9.      Brief Therapy: Mental Research Institute                           Pei-Fen Li

10.  Milan Systemic Family Therapy                                           Carlos Ramos & Claire Loucke

11.  Strategic Family Therapy                                                      Roxanne Bamond, Anastasia Hanson,

& Rosemary Leone

12.  Structural Family Therapy                                                    Michael D. Reiter

13.  Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy                                  Woochul Park

14.  Solution-Focused Brief Therapy                                           Carol Messmore & Arlene Brett

Gordon

15.  Narrative Family Therapy                                                     Weston Crafton & Ashley McErlean

16.  Internal Family Systems                                                       Keran Flynn-Kroska

17.  Emotionally Focused Family Therapy                                  Matt Pace & Todd Workman Jesness

18.  Feminist Family Therapy                                                      Coreen Haym & Anne Prouty

Biography

Michael D. Reiter, Ph.D., LMFT, is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and family therapist for over 30 years. Throughout his career, he has worked in private practice, community mental health centers, home-based programs, and university counseling centers. Michael has been a full-time faculty member for over 25 years. He was Professor of Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University in the Marriage and Family Therapy program and also taught in the Psychology, Clinical Psychology, School Guidance and Counseling, and Mental Health Counseling programs at NSU. Currently, Michael is a core faculty member at Capella University in the Marriage and Family Therapy program. He has written 14 books and co-edited three books. These books include Substance Abuse and the Family (3^rd ed. Routledge, 2026), Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice, & Theory (2^nd ed) (Routledge, 2025), A Therapist’s Guide to Writing in Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2023), Family Therapy: The Basics (Routledge, 2022), Therapeutic Interviewing (2^nd ed. Routledge, 2022), It’s Not you, It’s Them…And You (2020), Systems Theories for Psychotherapists (Routledge, 2019), The Craft of Family Therapy (2^nd ed. Routledge, 2021)—written with Dr. Salvador Minuchin, one of the most important figures in the field of family therapy, edited Case Conceptualization in Couple Therapy (Routledge, 2025), and co-edited books with Dr. Ron Chenail, Behavioral, Humanistic-Experiential and Psychodynamic Approaches to Couples Counseling and Constructivist, Critical, and Integrative Approaches to Couples Counseling (Routledge, 2017). Michael has written over 20 journal articles and been a Special Edition editor for the Journal of Systemic Therapies and the American Journal of Family Therapy. Michael has presented at many state, national, and international conferences on various issues in psychotherapy and family therapy. He currently lives in South Florida with his wife, Yukari, and their children Maya and Koji.

Training new generations of family therapists begins with understanding the milestones of family therapy, yet students often ask how theory translates into real clinical work. At a time when access to contemporary live demonstrations by pioneers of the field is rare, this book offers a unique opportunity to see therapy models in vivo. By bridging theory and practice, it supports students in moving from conceptual knowledge to clinical practice. An essential contribution to the training of thoughtful, reflective practitioners. Luca Codecà, PhD, LMFT, Nova Southeastern University

 As practical as it is innovative, this book and its contributors bring family therapy sessions alive, one model at a time. Using transcripts to expand upon theoretical underpinnings across fifteen family systems approaches, the authors each use the same family scenario to demonstrate what therapy ‘looks like’ from each, bringing a vivid panache to case conceptualization from a systemic perspective and benefitting clinicians’ skills at organizing and transforming the complexity of family interactional process. --Laurie L. Charlés, PhD LMFT. Author, International Family Therapy: A Guide for Multilateral Systemic Practice in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (Routledge, 2021).