Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict: A Behavioral-Family Systems Approach
Parent-adolescent discord is often handled from a unitary perspective, whether the focus is on enhancing parenting skills, resolving conflicts in family relationships, or working to improve the... (more)
Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence: Fear Can Stop You Loving
Exploring the complex issues of trauma, attachment and family placement, the contributors to this book provide a variety of complementary perspectives on practice in this area. Focussing on how to... (more)
Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families
This is a comprehensive anthology on the psychological treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. It covers the full range of current theoretical and therapeutic approaches. It is a major... (more)
Aesthetics of Change
The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of... (more)
Short-term couple therapy
A practice-orientated text bringing together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate their short-term work with couples. Case excerpts and clinical examples allow... (more)
After The Fight: Using Your Disagreement To Build A Stronger: Using Your Disagreements To Build A Stronger Relationship
An analysis of a single night in the life of one couple. (more)
Family Therapy: Beyond Postmodernism
Examines postmodernism and its expessions in family therapy, raising questions about reality and realness, the subjective process of truth, and the experience of self. (more)
Hypoactive Sexual Desire: Integrating Sex and Couple Therapy
Over 50% of couples presenting for treatment will complain of insufficient sexual desire in one or both partners. Thus, all clinicians are very likely to encounter HSD in both individual and couple... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Integrating Theory with Practice
Here, in one brief volume, are the answers to many questions on couple therapy. This will be a lifesaver for faily therapy students and beginning therapists. In a straightforward manner, the authors... (more)
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. "New Families, Old Scripts" is an... (more)
Mothers who kill their children:
Mothers Who Kill Their Children draws on extensive research to identify clear patterns among the cases of women who kill their children, shedding light on why some women commit these acts. (more)
Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Mental health professionals consider the impact of death on entire family systems, the multiple generational legacies of loss, and the differential impact of a death depending on the developmental... (more)
Helping Families in Family Centres: Working at Therapeutic Practice
This book is a comprehensive guide for family centre workers, their managers and senior managers, and for all social workers working with children and families. As family centres are becoming an... (more)
Sex in Loving Relationships: The Relate Guide
Sex is part of a loving relationship. However, really loving someone doesn't always mean the sex will be wonderful - it might be as routine and dull as brushing your teeth, it might be difficult, or... (more)
Families and How to Survive Them
A life changing book that has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. Family therapist Dr Robin Skynner and his former patient John Cleese guide us through the daily issues that confront us all in a... (more)
Bereaved Parents and Their Continuing Bonds: Love After Death
For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a... (more)
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy is the definitive manual for applying the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to the complexities of family life.
The book sets out a... (more)
Parental Vigilant Care: A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers
This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescents. The effective component in vigilant care is not... (more)
Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model
Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple... (more)
Family Therapy: Skills and Techniques in Action
Relationships are a resource for healing a range of psychological difficulties. This is the fundamental principle of family therapy, an increasingly influential form of psychotherapy that is building... (more)
Focused Genograms: Intergenerational Assessment of Individuals, Couples, and Families: Second Edition
Focused Genograms introduces and provides a guide to constructing focused genograms through the lens of attachment theory. A genogram is a graphic representation of an intergenerational family tree... (more)