Problem-Solving Therapy, Second Edition

This book is brief. It is written in Jay's usual style with wry humor, clearly written, no wasted words and a focus on the importance of working with families as the most efficient approach to solving an individual family members problem. This was written when family therapy was a high art. It will be challenging to many who have been trained in recent years and don't have a family orientation. The book uses examples of work with families as well as a section on training therapists. While it is dated in some ways, it well worth your time and will be helpful in your practice or class room.

I was wowed by Haley's directive approach to family therapy. This book provided me with some new ideas and very clear directions for implementing Haley's strategies. However, I think you have to be a real artist to be effective with the latter.

This book was part of my course work and it was a wonderful read and very well articulated the methods of strategic therapy.

The content looked good but the print quality made it difficult for me to read.

This book is one of the Marriage and Family Therapy must-have books. Several questions on the national test are rumored to refer to Jay Haley's work.

This was a required text book for one of my graduate program's classes. It is a good book to keep to reference back to.

This was a requirement for my class and the university bookstore was much more expensive, as were other sitesd. Great value!

This book is hard to comprehend at a first setting. One needs time to read and reread to really get all the meat from Jay Haley's work.