Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work
Basing their work on the idea that psychoanalytic therapy and technique require more rather than less from the therapist, the Novicks explore the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent... (more)
Repairing Intimacy: An Object Relations Approach to Couples Therapy
This work uses object relations theory in looking at the psychotherapy of the marital relationship. Object relations theory provides an explanation of how the internal and external worlds are linked... (more)
The Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families:
This text offers a guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health and related professions. It offers up-to-date information on political, legislative and... (more)
Rescripting Family Experiences: The Therapeutic Influence of John Byng-Hall
John Byng-Hall is a distinguished, pioneering British family therapist, whose publications and presentations have established him internationally. This text is a tribute from six psychotherapists... (more)
Bradshaw on: The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery
A revised self-help book to give readers insight on improving their families, their lives, and society at large. The "death of the family", (more)
The therapist's use of self in family therapy: Countertransference in the therapist-family system
Therapists' effective use of self depends on their awareness of their countertransference. This book encourages clinicians who work with families to avail themselves of their unavoidable emotional... (more)
Sticking together: Experiential activities for family counselling
This text introduces an action-approach to family therapy, featuring games, challenges and guided activites. The activities act as metaphors for their problems enabling counselors to help the family... (more)
The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy
Research on why some couples divorce and others experience sustained bliss has led to a theory that successful couples have an abundance of good feelings towards one another and are able to deal with... (more)
Halving it all: how equally shared parenting works
New in paperback. The best way to have it all-both a full family life and a career-is to halve it all. Deutsch brings good news in the wake of inequality which has blighted women whose work-load is... (more)
Burdened children: Theory, research, and treatment of parentification
What are the developmental effects on children who must fulfill the family role of parent ? This book defines 'parentified children' as those who are compelled to perform the role of parent at the... (more)
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)
Divorce as Family Transition: When Private Sorrow Becomes A Public Matter
Based on the 1996 Family Law Act, this book looks at how the therapist can work with the different professions involved in a divorce, how children might be consulted, and ways in which vulnerable... (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)
Long Term Systemic Therapy: Individuals, Couples and Families
Systemic psychotherapy has long been conceptualised and practiced as brief psychotherapy, in both the public sector and in independent practice, but it is now increasingly becoming a longer term... (more)
Couple Relationships in a Global Context: Understanding Love and Intimacy Across Cultures
This book examines the significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century, exploring in depth how couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world. It highlights global... (more)
Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training: Practice and Research
This handbook examines digital systemic psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. It addresses online supervision for professionals working in mental health... (more)
Couple Therapy: The Basics
Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and... (more)
A Grief Companion: Practical support and a guiding hand through the darkness of loss
'This is a book that takes you by the hand and promises the gentlest comfort in the darkest of times.' Tamsin Greig
A Grief Companion offers us practical help to use alongside the theory of... (more)
Performance-Based Family Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Measurable Change
In this groundbreaking book, Charles Fishman uniquely incorporates and develops results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy.
Collaborating with the... (more)
The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
"That isn't what I meant!" Truly listening and being heard is far from simple, even between people who care about each other. This perennial bestseller--now revised and updated for the digital... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence: The Inner Worlds of Teenagers and their Parents
Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through... (more)
The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction: Love Bonds
The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction presents an evolutionary history of romantic love, male-female pair-bonding, same-sex friendship, and sexual attraction, drawing... (more)
Developmental psychopathology and family process: Theory, research, and clinical implications
Reviewing current research in such areas as attachment and parenting styles, marital functioning, and parental depression, the volume examines how these variables may influence developmental... (more)
Families in context: Emerging trends and family support in early intervention
By examining the context of the family itself, and the role of key family members such as mothers, fathers, siblings and grandparents, this work seeks to share approaches to working with families. It... (more)