Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
A Guide for the Family
A primer for mental health professionals who work with families. It recognises and borrows from the work of well-known and skilled family therapists to offer a practical approach to dealing with... (more)
The Transmission of Depression in Families and Children
Describes multiple family, individual and psychopharmacological therapeutic interventions on depression.
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)
Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy: Playful Collaborations with Children, Families and Networks
Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy is an innovative book that details how clinicians can engage children, families and their networks in creative and... (more)
This is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships
One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a phone-in-therapist's advice to 'journal his feelings,' Matthew Fray started a blog. As he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went... (more)
The Adopted Child Comes of Age
How do adoptions really turn out? How do adopted children feel about the family they were given and the opportunities they were offered? To what extent do they fulfil their new parents' expectations... (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)
Ethnicity and Family Therapy
This widely used clinical reference and text provides a wealth of knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter... (more)
Breaking the Cycle
Based of a unique eight-year study of violent marriages, Emerging from Hell assesses the emotional experiences of couples and answers some of the key questions surrounding battering - how... (more)
I Love A Firefighter: What the Family Needs to Know
Patterned on the outstanding success of I Love a Cop, this is the first book of its kind written exclusively for fire fighters and their families. (more)
Sistering:
This volume explores the significance of sister relationships in women's lives. It documents sistering experiences through narratives of growing up, caring for the family, leaving home, and becoming... (more)
The psychology of adoption:
This volume brings together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex, interdisciplinary subject of adoption. It takes an integrated approach, examining... (more)
Kinship foster care: Policy, practice, and research
Assembling the thinking and research of experts from several fields, this book examines what has become the fastest growing type of substitute care for children by the state. The editors have... (more)
The anti-social family
164 pages.
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples: Clinical Perspectives on Suffering
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling... (more)
Hitchhiking through Asperger Syndrome
Written from a parent's perspective, this book gives a candid and thoughtful account of one family's trek through the world of Asperger's Syndrome. The author makes it very clear that, while... (more)
Video Interaction Guidance: A Relationship-based Intervention to Promote Attunement, Empathy and Wellbeing
Shows how VIG has been successfuly applied to family relationships, schools & higher education, individuals with communication & developmental disorders & as a reflective professional development... (more)
Racial Stereotyping and Child Development: Contributions to Human Development, Volume 25
In contemporary societies children's racial identity is co-constructed in response to racial stereotyping with extended family, peers and teachers, and potent media sources. The studies in this... (more)
Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue
An acclaimed, influential work now available in paper for the first time, this bestselling book applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H.... (more)
Overcoming Anger in Your Relationship: How to Break the Cycle of Arguments, Put-Downs, and Stony Silences
From anger expert Dr Robert Nay - who has helped thousands of individuals and couples learn new ways of resolving conflicts - this straight-talking book provides clear-cut, practical techniques for... (more)
Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems
Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems - what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so. The modern family is inundated with information and no... (more)
Parenting with Reason: Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas
Parenting with Reason cuts through the masses of often confusing and contradictory advice found in parenting self-help books to provide a rich common-sense manual on evidence-based parenting.... (more)