" ... Makes available an extraordinary range of alternative methods to assist clients to change their behavior and to modify the organization of the family system ... structured techniques have been divided into six major categories: 1. Fantasy and imagery; 2. Sociometrics; 3. Structural moves; 4. Behavioral tasks; 5. Paradox; 6. Alternative models. Each category is preceded by an informative theoretical introduction reviewing the thinking behind the techniques ... most [approaches] go beyond interview-type talk and involve some form of therapeutic action ... For each ... technique the authors provide a succinct theoretical rationale, a set of procedures, a clinical case example, and recources for additional information ..."--Inside flap.