Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Family Therapy with Couples
Outlines ways to use the parental unit as a major force for change in families. Topics covered include: understanding relationship problems systematically; the first interview; rethinking the family... (more)
A Family Systems Approach to Individual Therapy
An exploration of how systemic family therapy techniques can be integrated with individual therapy. It features numerous case examples and practical guidelines and ideas.
Counselling for Family Problems
The author places helping families in a traditional counselling framework and maintains that successful family counselling is a combination of several elements, including: working with the family's... (more)
The Transmission of Depression in Families and Children
Describes multiple family, individual and psychopharmacological therapeutic interventions on depression.
Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities
This work describes the clinical application of ideas and practices which has come to be known as 'narrative therapy'. It traces guiding metaphors of family therapy, and explains the basic ideas of... (more)
Object Relations Family Therapy
Aims to give individual psychotherapists a way of using dynamic listening and interpreting when working with couples and families, and offers family therapists the tools of psychoanalysis for... (more)
Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy
Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist... (more)
Equal Partners, Good Friends: Empowering couples through therapy
This study examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress, drawing on research and interviews. Focusing on issues of gender, sex roles and power, it provides a clinical... (more)
Art Therapy with Families in Crisis
This volume describes art therapy interventions for particularly dysfunctional families and explains the connections between the process of creating art and the curative process in meeting these... (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)
Family Systems Therapy: Developments in the Milan-Systemic Therapies
This book gives an incisive and perceptive overview of the development of systemic therapies associated with the Milan approach. The author describes how, during the last decade, systemic therapies... (more)
New Language of Change
Showing how to build on client strengths, this book details a collaborative process in which the therapist and client co-construct meaning in the therapeutic conversation. 464 pages. (more)
Gender and Family Therapy
Burck and Daniel share the personal meaning that gender holds for them, and the open and enquiring, rather than definitive, style of their writing makes it easy for the reader to grasp their ideas.... (more)
Introducing User-friendly Family Therapy
So much family therapy is not user-friendly, it is disempowering and too technique-oriented. This thought-provoking work is practical in its emphasis and endeavours to show that family therapy can... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 16 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family... (more)
Bowen Theory's Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families
A much-needed update to one of the most significant family therapy theories of the past century.
Murray Bowen (1931–1990) was the first to study the family in a live-in setting and describe... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 16 Number 1 – Special Issue: Couples as Parents in Families
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family... (more)
In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment In Couples Therapy
Written by pioneers in the field of couples therapy, the classic edition of In Quest of the Mythical Mate presents Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson's methodology for analyzing how couples'... (more)
Family-Based Treatment for Transition-Aged Youth with Anorexia Nervosa: A Framework for Working with Young People and Their Families
This book provides a comprehensive theoretical, empirical, and clinical account for the use of an adapted form of family-based therapy for transition-aged youth (FBT-TAY) aged 16–25 with anorexia... (more)
Demystifying Relationship Therapy: A View from the Therapist's Chair
What happens when two therapists work together in extended sessions with couples in crisis? Demystifying Relationship Therapy: A View from the Therapist's Chair takes readers inside the therapy room... (more)
Key Topics in Parenting and Family Psychology
This authoritative resource examines the significant influence parents have on children's developmental outcomes and the challenges of modern-day parenting. Highlighting the pivotal role parents play... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Compulsivity and Clinical Sexology
The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Compulsivity and Clinical Sexology is a cutting-edge and comprehensive guide to understanding compulsive sexual behaviours (CSBs) in-depth in the... (more)
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Sexual Problems: An Essential Guide for Mental Health Professionals
This book provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the forces that influence sexual dysfunction across the lifespan and equips clinicians with effective strategies to help individuals and... (more)
Treating Compulsive Sexual Behaviour and Its Impact on Relationships: A Clinical Guide
Treating Compulsive Sexual Behaviour and Its Impact on Relationships is a practical guide to understanding the impact of compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB) on intimacy, trust, and emotional connection... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children: Second Edition
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children, Second Edition, offers a new way of understanding and supporting children – building deep, respectful relationships with their inner worlds through the... (more)