Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Action Therapy with Families and Groups: Using Creative Arts Improvisa
This title introduces clinicians to innovative therapeutic options that can be used with families and groups: action methods or therapy approaches involving physical movement and expressive arts... (more)
Becoming Parents: Exploring the Bonds Between Mothers, Fathers, and Their Infants
This volume examines the transition to parenthood from the perspective of adult attachment theory. It reviews previous studies of the transition to parenthood and of adult attachments, and presents... (more)
School behaviour and families: Frameworks for working together
This work focuses on the relationship that schools have with parents and carers, especially in the early stages of behavioural difficulty. It aims to promote the best possible partnership with... (more)
Schools and families: Creating essential connections for children's learning
This practical volume is designed to help school practitioners and educators build stronger connections with families and enhance students' achievement. (more)
The hidden victims of Alzheimer's disease: Families under stress
Offers advice on care, explains how to handle inappropriate public behavior, and discusses treatments, support groups, and individual counseling. (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)
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)
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 of schizophrenic patients: Cognitive behavioural intervention
Written for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, and social workers, this study presents techniques for providing care for the entire family of schizophrenic patients.... (more)
Becoming a family: Parents' stories and their implications for practice, policy, and research
This work seeks to enhance understanding of family-life development by shedding light on the meanings that family members ascribe to the developmental process of becoming a family. This is achieved... (more)
Men in families: When do they get involved? What difference does it make?
Focusing on the roles of fathers and husbands in families, this text examines varying research results. Whilst some studies show that fathers have small effects on child development, others suggest... (more)
Handbook of Family Development and Intervention
This handbook systematically explores family development. Recognized experts examine theories of family development; family patterns, processes and dynamics; family stages; and variations in... (more)
Working with parents of SEN children after the Code of Practice:
The aim of this text is to: identify existing good practice and present areas of developing practice; appraise the early impact of the Code in respect of partnership; and provide a forum for the... (more)