It is one of the pillars of therapy, counseling for ordinary people who have encountered a temporary glitch in their lives. However, often it reveals deep-seated problems or moments of mental illness that need clear and close intervention or hospitalization, some of it long-term and severe. Lebow (clinical psychology and therapist, Northwestern U) takes therapists in training through the entire process, including the foundations of couples and familytherapy, the integrative perspective, science and practice, treatment models, common factors, strategies and techniques in intervention, stages in therapy (including engagement, assessment, and termination), specific strategies for specificproblems, dialectics and controversies, ethics and values, and shaping an individualized approach. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)