Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Handbook of Family Therapy: Second Edition
Integrative, research-based, multisystemic: these words reflect not only the state of family therapy, but the nature of this comprehensive handbook as well. The contributors, all well-recognized... (more)
Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide
The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face... (more)
Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness
This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists who have... (more)
Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide
The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult - but also one of the most common - factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical,... (more)
Sex Addiction: The Partners' Perspective: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Surviving Sex Addiction for Partners and Those Who Want to Help Them
Sex and pornography addiction are growing problems that devastate the lives of partners as well as sufferers. Sex Addiction: A Partners' Perspective has been written to help partners and those who... (more)
Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice: Third Edition
Featuring rich case examples, this book has helped tens of thousands of students and therapists build the skills and confidence needed to tackle the full range of issues that families bring to... (more)
Sexual Dysfunction: A Guide for Assessment and Treatment: Third Edition
Highly regarded as a course text and practitioner resource, this book presents concise intervention guidelines for the most frequently encountered sexual dysfunctions in women and men. Following a... (more)
Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy: Clinical Interventions
Since ADHD became a well-known condition, decades ago, much of the research and clinical discourse has focused on youth. In recent years, attention has expanded to the realm of adult ADHD and the... (more)
The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents: Second Edition
The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Second Edition, provides 72 solution-oriented activities for an array of challenging problems mental health professionals face when working with clients. The... (more)
Intimacy from the Inside Out: Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy
Couples in distress enter therapy holding two goals that they now experience as mutually exclusive: to feel loved and to feel understood. Toni Herbine-Blank's powerful new brand of couple therapy,... (more)
Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? When this is the question of an empirical research project, it poses methodological challenges: how can... (more)
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Couples and Family Relationships: Guide to Contemporary Research, Theory, Practice and Policy
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Couples and Family Relationships presents original articles from leading experts that link research, policy, and practice together to reflect the most current... (more)
Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
When a man showers all of his attention on a woman, it can feel incredibly romantic, and can blind her to hints of a darker side. But what happens when that attentiveness starts to feel like... (more)
The Presence of the Absent: Therapy with Families and Their Ghosts
Where live our most cherished (or painful) memories? Where do our beloved (or dreaded) exist when departed? In the gray zone between our self and our world, they can exist as internal reminiscences... (more)
The Couples Therapy Companion: A Cognitive Behavior Workbook
Learn to look at marriage and couples counseling through the lens of Rational Emotive Couples Therapy.
Dr Russell Grieger walks the reader through the RECT process and includes numerous... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Distinctive Features
Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy (CBCT) is an enhanced and contextually grounded approach that provides evidence based strategies for working with couple distress, as well as individual... (more)
Family Therapy for Adolescent Eating and Weight Disorders: New Applications
Family-based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders is an outpatient therapy where parents are the main resource in treatment. The therapist supports the parents to do the work nurses would have done... (more)
Contemporary Families: Translating Research into Practice
Written for researchers, practitioners, and students in advanced courses, this book furthers our understanding of the complexity of contemporary families. Seven types of families are the focus of... (more)
Healing for Adults Who Grew Up in Adoption or Foster Care: Positive Strategies for Overcoming Emotional Challenges
Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care. Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often... (more)
Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation and Treatment: Second Edition
Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as... (more)
From Here to Maternity: Pregnancy and Motherhood on the Autism Spectrum
Already the mother of five children, Lana Grant's late diagnosis of autism at age 38 transformed her experience of her sixth pregnancy. Based on her own experiences of the challenges and joys of... (more)
The Role of the Father in Child Development: Fifth Edition
Completely revised and updated, The Role of the Father in Child Development: Fifth Edition brings together contributions from an international group of experts on the role of fathers in child... (more)
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our... (more)
Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond: Personal and Professional Perspectives
This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges... (more)
Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change
This volume makes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) widely accessible to therapists of different orientations and to therapists in training. It provides clinicians with practical tools, an... (more)
Marital Tensions: Clinical Studies Towards a Psychological Theory of Interaction (Psychology Revivals)
Originally published in 1967, this book gathers together the various aspects of Dr Dick's theoretical and clinical approach to marriage difficulties into a coherent system for the benefit of... (more)
Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic (Psychology Revivals)
Originally published in 1970, this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry. Based on the impetus of Freudian and... (more)
Couples and Change (Psychology Revivals)
First published in 1996, this enlightening book about facilitating therapeutic change within the couple relationship opens with a transcript of one of a series of lectures by Virginia Satir. It... (more)
Coupling... What Makes Permanence? (Psychology Revivals)
Originally published in 1991, the theme for this title is the exploration of the components of lasting, long-term relationships. It begins with the first part of an interview between Sheldon Starr... (more)
Extraordinary Sex Therapy: Creative Approaches for Clinicians
How do we help our clients discover the depth and breadth of sexual healing? Extraordinary Sex Therapy offers a range of innovative health-based approaches and models to explore the complexities... (more)