Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges
Designed to help families with adopted children to create the rites and traditions inherent in families with a natural shared history. 141 pages. (more)
Children in families: Research and policy
This work argues that children's needs have often been neglected in the social sciences, especially in the areas of law, social policy and sociology. It presents empirical research on children in... (more)
Men Who Batter Women
Considering both feminist approaches to male violence, and those perspectives which treat violent behaviour as psychologically pathological, the author explores how depth psychology can be used to... (more)
The Ancestor Syndrome
In this text the author explains and provides clinical examples of her psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in... (more)
Fathers, Families and the Outside World
This is the second monograph to be published under the auspices of Winnicott Studies, the Squiggle Foundation's renowned series of publications on contemporary applications of Winnicott's thought.... (more)
Action modality couples therapy: using psychodramatic techniques in helping troubled relationships
This approach to therapy describes psychodramatic techniques that have been used successfully in group therapy, and shows how to apply them to helping troubled relationships. Included with clinical... (more)
Family therapy sourcebook
450 pages.
A stranger in the family: Culture, families and therapy
Provides a model of family therapy for working with families across cultures. Drawing together emerging trends in therapy and the human sciences, the author offers an understanding of the situated... (more)
You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family
An update to the enlightening book that introduced readers to the power of exploring their family dynamics through genograms.
This classic text poignantly explains how constructing the genogram,... (more)
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality
The first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.
Alighting from the existential... (more)
Integrative Couple Therapy in Action: A Practical Guide for Handling Common Relationship Problems and Crises
Presents a unique offering that integrates systems theory, psychodynamics, and psychoeducation interventions within a biopsychosocial conceptualization of couples' problems Offers suggestions for... (more)
Managing the Aftermath of Infidelity: A Sequential Guide for Therapists and Couples
This book tackles the challenges that arise from infidelity by helping couples heal through the initial experiences of discovery, providing tools to help partners disclose the details of the affair,... (more)
Moral Development in Couple Therapy: A New Approach to Kohlberg's Stages
This innovative text utilizes Kohlberg's stages of moral development, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied to couple and marriage therapy.
Facilitating moral stage development has... (more)
Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblings: A Handbook for Professionals, Family, and Friends
Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblingsis based on lived experiences and provides insight, ideas, and inspiration on how to support the bereaved, how to talk to them about their experience, and... (more)
The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy: Systemic Family Therapy with Couples: Volume 3
Volume III of The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy focuses on therapy with couples. Information on the effectiveness of relational treatment is included along with consideration of the most... (more)
The Millennial Marriage
This essential text explores the concept of "Me-Marriage"-a marital relationship that blends individualized life goals and interests-and draws from research on the current benefits and costs of... (more)
Therapeutic Fairy Tales: For Children and Families Going Through Troubling Times
Therapeutic Fairy Tales are a series of short, modern tales, dedicated to supporting young children through challenging situations of life and loss, covering diverse themes such as family breakdown,... (more)
Intercultural Perspectives on Family Counseling
Intercultural Perspectives on Family Counseling expands cultural awareness in the practice of family counseling by offering cultural-specific perspectives for addressing common issues that emerge in... (more)
Sex, love and violence: Strategies for transformation
This work proposes a model for choosing the right intervention to solve the problems which are brought to therapy. The emphasis is on how to understand and control the many forms of violence... (more)
Parenting and child development in non-traditional families:
This volume seeks to discuss the ways in which various "deviations" from "traditional" family styles affect childrearing practices and child development, covering such topics as dual-career families,... (more)
The transformation of intimacy: Love, sexuality and eroticism in modern societies
Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture, arguing that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, heralds... (more)
Case studies from The Family Therapy Networker:
A clinical-reference and training text which presents a selection from more than two decades of case reports in the award-winning US mental-health periodical, "The Family Therapy Networker". 320... (more)
Infertility and involuntary childlessness: Helping couples care
Infertility affects one in six couples and is at once a medical, psychological and social problem. This book shows therapists how to help individuals and couples cope with this crisis. 178 pages. (more)
Growing up again - Parenting ourselves, parenting our children
Second edition. 310 pages. (more)