Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice: Fourth Edition
Engaging, practical, and infused with clinical wisdom, this widely used text and practitioner guide helps therapists working with families to hit the ground running. The revised and updated fourth... (more)
New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness
New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined... (more)
Men's Ways of Being
Addressing many questions which arise in the field of gender studies, these readings have emerged from the experiences of men and women aiming to make sense of the impact of the "men's movement" on... (more)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families describes SFBT from a systemic perspective and provides students, educators, trainers, and practitioners with a clear explanation and rich examples of... (more)
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists: From Theory to Practice
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists explores three key theories that underpin many of the models of psychotherapy: general systems theory, natural systems theory, and language systems theory. The... (more)
Short-term couple therapy
A practice-orientated text bringing together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate their short-term work with couples. Case excerpts and clinical examples allow... (more)
Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy
This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided... (more)
Couples in Conflict: Classic Edition
This classic volume provides a solid foundation for thinking about creative ways in which our society can work to prevent or minimize destructive couple conflict and enhance couples' abilities to... (more)
The Genogram Casebook: A Clinical Companion to Genograms: Assessment and Intervention
A companion to the celebrated text Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, this workbook will articulate exactly how to put genograms to use in therapy work. Issues surrounding client engagement,... (more)
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised... (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)
Therapeutic Approaches with Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention
Therapeutic Interventions with Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention is about the value of observation and close attention for babies and young children who may be vulnerable... (more)
10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy
Here, two of the world's leading couple therapists give readers an inside tour of what goes on inside the consulting rooms of their practice. They have been doing couples work for decades and still... (more)
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)
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)
An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy: Second Edition
Now in its second edition, this text introduces readers to the rich history and practice of Marriage and Family Therapy, with 32 professionals from across the US presenting their knowledge in their... (more)
Families and Family Therapy
This special edition of the classic text includes a new introduction from Professor Arlene Vetere exploring its continuing influence on contemporary practice. One of family therapy's foundational... (more)
Family Therapy Review: Contrasting Contemporary Models
This unique text uses one common case to demonstrate the applications of a wide range of family therapy models. Readers will find it useful when studying for the national family therapy licensing... (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)
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)
Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy
This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from... (more)
Rebuilding Lives After Domestic Violence: Understanding Long-term Outcomes
Examines in-depth the long-term outcomes for women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse, based on interviews conducted over seven years. Through these interviews the author reveals the... (more)
Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment: How to Interpret Childrens Needs
The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers... (more)
Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy
Neuroscience and couples therapy come together to help couples break patterns of bad behavior. What happens between partners that makes love turn to war? How can couples therapists help de-escalate... (more)
Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However,... (more)
Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
Therapy cannot fulfill its purpose until the clients can make it work outside the therapy room in relation to the concerns, people, and places of their everyday lives. Research on therapy has largely... (more)
Couple Therapy: The Self in the Relationship
This book presents students and experienced practitioners alike with an accessible guide on the complex dynamics of the couple relationship. Combining the theoretical grounding of various... (more)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: How Couples Really Work
This book, written in plain language by an experienced, psychoanalytically-orientated therapist, is aimed at lay readers who wish to understand how couples consciously and unconsciously operate in... (more)
Working with Parents and Infants: A Mind-Body Integration Approach
Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and... (more)