Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Understanding Adult Attachment in Family Relationships: Assessment and Intervention
Attachment theory has become a key focus of both research and practice in understanding and treating psychological and social risk for marital and relationship problems, parenting and depression and... (more)
Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective
From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable... (more)
Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality: Fifth Edition
The new mantra in sex therapy includes desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. In Sexual Awareness, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy provide psychological, biological, and relational... (more)
New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives: Second Edition
New Directions in Sex Therapy focuses on cutting-edge, therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies. With each passing year the treatment of sexual problems seems to... (more)
Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy: Practicing with 21st Century Realities
As the baby boomers move into retirement and later stages of life, gerontology and geriatrics have begun to receive much more attention. 'Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy' explores the ways in... (more)
Looking and Listening: Work from the São Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre with a Supervision Seminar by Esther Bick
‘Marisa Pelella Melega came to Rome in 1988 to celebrate the foundation of the first Centro Studi Martha Harris, and to establish a link between the Centro Studi and her initiative in São Paulo. The... (more)
Positions and Polarities in Contemporary Systemic Practice: The Legacy of David Campbell
This book provides a rich collection of the work that has been informed by the ideas of the eminent family therapist and clinical psychologist, Dr David Campbell who died in August 2009. Contributors... (more)
Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation: Second Edition
Long recognized as the authoritative guide for clinicians working with divorcing families, this book presents crucial concepts, strategies, and intervention techniques. Robert E. Emery describes how... (more)
Marriage and Relationship Education: What Works and How to Provide It
Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this indispensable book addresses the whats, whys, and how-tos of conducting effective marriage and relationship education. Leading authority... (more)
Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity: Fourth Edition
Widely adopted, this valued course text and practitioner guide has expanded the understanding of family normality and healthy functioning in our increasingly diverse society. The editor and... (more)
Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
Friendships are undeniably important to an individual's health, longevity and wellbeing, but they can be equally important for the health and happiness of a couple. Just as a friend can provide a... (more)
Family Assessment: Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies: Second Edition
In an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians. It covers more than one hundred assessment methods – both the most... (more)
Narrative Therapy for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence: Supporting Women's Transitions from Abuse to Safety
For women experiencing domestic violence, narrative therapy can be a powerful tool to help them gain self-confidence and a sense of identity, resist violence, and make the transition from abuse to... (more)
The Functional Dialectic System Approach to Therapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families
A comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to contemporary system-based therapy.
The functional dialectic system approach to therapy has been widely embraced and is now used internationally,... (more)
Sacred Matters: Religion and Sprituality in Families
Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 2 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 2 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
The Practice of Person-Centred Couple and Family Therapy
In The Practice of Person-Centred Couple and Family Therapy,/i>, Charles O'Leary offers a rich description of relationship therapy that draws on the resources of both person-centred psychotherapy and... (more)
Integrating Psychodrama and Systemic Constellation Work: New Directions for Action Methods, Mind-Body Therapies and Energy Healing
Systemic Constellation Work is a rapidly growing experiential healing process that is being embraced by a variety of helping professionals, both traditional and alternative, worldwide. This book... (more)
Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: Understanding Issues Around Immigration and Attachment
Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years.
In... (more)
When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent: Third Edition
The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for... (more)
Readings in Family Therapy: From Theory to Practice
A supplemental resource for the text: Family Therapy: Models, Skills and Techniques: A Comprehensive Introduction, and the Instructors Manual. This reader will serve as a supplemental resource for... (more)
The Role of Sisters in Women's Development
This book provides useful recommendations for therapeutic understanding of the significance of sisters in everyday life, integrating diverse perspectives in order to address the ways clinicians can... (more)
Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and Families
Living with Bipolar Disorder offers a wealth of information on this illness, along with effective strategies to reduce the likelihood of episodes of depression or mania and maximize the enjoyment of... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy for Families in Times of Illness and Death: Second Edition
Living with serious illness has profound effects not only on patients themselves but also on their families. This fully updated edition by a recognized expert focuses on the individual in context,... (more)
How Not to F*** Them Up
As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin? Want to know how best to be a working or stay-at-home mum? Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how... (more)
Key Concepts in Family Studies
This book's individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise key topics within the study of family lives. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful... (more)
Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Developed by Dr Sue Johnson over 20 years ago and practised all over the world, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) has been heralded by Time magazine and the New York Times as the couple... (more)
Poisonous Parenting: Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children
How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of toxic parents affect their relationships into their... (more)
Self Within Marriage: The Foundation for Lasting Relationships
Self Within Marriage combines the theoretical orientations of object-relations theory, self psychology, and systems theory to illustrate and discuss a way of understanding and working with couples... (more)