Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties
This cutting-edge second edition of The Craft of Family Therapy revisits some of Salvador Minuchin's most famous cases, guiding trainee therapists through basic techniques and ideas while... (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 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)
Supporting Children when Parents Separate: Embedding a Crisis Intervention Approach within Family Justice, Education and Mental Health Policy
After years of research and reflection on the work of the interdisciplinary family justice system Mervyn Murch offers a fresh approach to supporting the thousands of children every year who... (more)
The Science of Family Systems Theory
This accessible text examines how the science of autonomy and adaptation informs all family therapy approaches and discusses how clinicians can use this science to improve their... (more)
Marriage and Family in Modern China: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China.
The book... (more)
Attraction Explained: The science of how we form relationships
When it comes to relationships, there's no shortage of advice from self-help 'experts', pick-up artists, and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths of attraction often have no basis in fact or -... (more)
Therapeutic Stories for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families: Addressing the Domino Effect of Issues Facing 10–14-Year-Olds
This accessible resource contains therapeutic stories and guidance for adults who are supporting young people aged 10-14 in foster, adoptive or kinship families. With a solution-focused approach, the... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
What Makes Us Human: How Minds Develop through Social Interactions
"How do you go from a bunch of cells to something that can think?" This question, asked by the 9-year-old son of one of the authors, speaks to a puzzle that lies at the heart of this book. How are we... (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)
International Family Therapy: A Guide for Multilateral Systemic Practice in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
International Family Therapy brings the international plane and its emphasis on the global community of states to systemic family therapy.
Informed by a coherent, multilateral perspective, each... (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)
Tandem Couples Counseling: An Innovative Approach to Working with High Conflict Couples
This book introduces the protocol known as Tandem Couples Counseling (TCC), a ground-breaking model that provides sound theoretical explanations and interventions that address the inherent... (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)
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)
Contemporary Male Sexuality: Confronting Myths and Promoting Change
This accessible guide confronts myths and pressures surrounding men and sex, promoting a positive and healthy model of male sexuality that replaces traditional expectations.
The chapters in this... (more)
Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Families, Parents, and Children
With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in... (more)
Human Emotions and the Origins of Bioethics
This book provides a unique phenomenological dialogue between psychology and philosophy on the origin of bioethics that shows the importance of bringing emotions into bioethical... (more)
The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy: Mindful Integrations with Neuroscience
Bringing together clinical expertise with the latest findings from social, affective, and cognitive neuroscience, this accessible guide outlines how basic concepts of neuroscience and family therapy... (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)
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)
Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Parenthood
This accessible guide addresses the nature of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts that can be common in new parenthood, and offers practical answers and advice on how to tackle these.
With fresh... (more)
Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Third Edition: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice
A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material.... (more)
Working with Vulnerable Children, Young People and Families: Second Edition
This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and... (more)
Intervening After Violence: Therapy for Couples and Families
This practical text offers professional guidance on stopping domestic violence in couples and families and promoting healing and safety in its aftermath. Rich in theoretical diversity (attachment,... (more)
Building Children’s Resilience in the Face of Parental Mental Illness: Conversations with Children, Parents and Professionals
Mental illness in a parent presents children with multiple challenges, including stigma, self-doubt and self-blame, ongoing anxiety and depression, that are rarely discussed in the public domain.... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 10 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
The Night Crossing and Storybook Manual: A Lullaby For Children On Life's Last Journey
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with an untreatable illness. With gentle and colourful... (more)