Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Handbook of Family Therapy: Volume 2
832 pages.
Handing Over: Developing Consistency Across Shifts in Residential and Health Settings
This book introduces a new way of conducting a handover which allows the workers themselves to see the process from a wider perspective and to gather information in a different way. The major change... (more)
Mastering family therapy: Journeys of growth and transformation
This work offers views on what makes a good family therapist and discusses how the therapist must use his or her own personal experience to bring about change in troubled families. It includes... (more)
Women in families: A framework for family therapy
498 pages.
Object Relations Family Therapy
Aims to give individual psychotherapists a way of using dynamic listening and interpreting when working with couples and families, and offers family therapists the tools of psychoanalysis for... (more)
Family Systems Therapy: Developments in the Milan-Systemic Therapies
This book gives an incisive and perceptive overview of the development of systemic therapies associated with the Milan approach. The author describes how, during the last decade, systemic therapies... (more)
Handbook of relational diagnosis and dysfunctional relationship patterns
In this study, family clinicians and researchers present a typology of relational disorders. They examine the role of diagnosis in couples and family therapy, and offer clinical criteria for... (more)
Integrating family therapy: Handbook of family psychology and systems therapy
This text brings together family psychology and systems thinking to explore the ways systems therapists actually think and behave in order to bring about family change. The theme of integration is... (more)
New Language of Change
Showing how to build on client strengths, this book details a collaborative process in which the therapist and client co-construct meaning in the therapeutic conversation. 464 pages.... (more)
Introducing user-friendly family psychotherapy
So much family therapy is not user-friendly, it is disempowering and too technique-oriented. This thought-provoking work is practical in its emphasis and endeavours to show that family therapy can... (more)
Gender and Family Therapy
Burck and Daniel share the personal meaning that gender holds for them, and the open and enquiring, rather than definitive, style of their writing makes it easy for the reader to grasp their ideas.... (more)
The Transmission of Depression in Families and Children
Describes multiple family, individual and psychopharmacological therapeutic interventions on depression.
Counselling for Family Problems
The author places helping families in a traditional counselling framework and maintains that successful family counselling is a combination of several elements, including: working with the family's... (more)
A Family Systems Approach to Individual Therapy
An exploration of how systemic family therapy techniques can be integrated with individual therapy. It features numerous case examples and practical guidelines and ideas.
Family Therapy with Couples
Outlines ways to use the parental unit as a major force for change in families. Topics covered include: understanding relationship problems systematically; the first interview; rethinking the family... (more)
Helping Families to Change
Discussing learning to change through modalities other than speech, this work emphasises the importance of non-verbal body experience, and of awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships.... (more)
A Marital Therapy Manual
Presents the basic principles and working techniques of marital therapy, including analyses of the four most commonly observed pathological marriage patterns. From these the author sketches the... (more)
Marriage Contracts and Couple Therapy
Emphasises the role of 'the individual unwritten contract', which encompasses the expectations and promises - both conscious and unconscious - that each partner brings to a marriage or committed... (more)
Family Systems Thinking
This work begins with the early origins of family therapy. It introduces the field of systems theory; describes and demonstrates four approaches to family therapy; presents the author's own... (more)
A Guide for the Family
A primer for mental health professionals who work with families. It recognises and borrows from the work of well-known and skilled family therapists to offer a practical approach to dealing with... (more)
Family therapy sourcebook
450 pages.
Mothering and ambivalence
This text brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within families. Drawing on professional experience the... (more)
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children
This book suggests how to work with emotional and behavioural problems in orphaned children, using the following approaches: distinguishing between old and new parents; adjusting the child to the... (more)