Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
The Trouble with Illness: How Illness and Disability Affect Relationships
This impressively honest book explores the effects a challenging disability or illness can have on the mind and personal relationships, and how others can help. Illness or disability can isolate... (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)
An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders: Healing Part by Part
Drawing on the evidence-based Internal Family System (IFS) therapy model, An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders addresses the necessity of healing the eating disorder... (more)
Identity, Attachment and Resilience: Exploring Three Generations of a Polish Family
Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity. The field encompasses... (more)
Therapeutic Relationships: The Tripartite Model: Development and Applications to Family Systems Theory
In this text, Butler takes an in-depth look at the development of family systems theory and how the work of Bowen, Gelso, and Meissner has shaped family psychotherapy. Family systems theory considers... (more)
Come Closer: On Love and Self-Protection
Everyone engages in self-protecting behaviours to some extent, but when these begin to take on the form of bad habits, they can be damaging. People often use self-protection strategies in love and... (more)
Couple Stories: Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Thinking About Couple Interaction
This book presents the application of key psychoanalytic concepts in thinking about the dynamics in the couple relationship. The contributions to the first part, mainly theory, discuss how different... (more)
Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families: Fourth Edition
This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a Global Perspectives... (more)
Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners: Second Edition
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert... (more)
Strengthening Family Resilience: Third Edition
In this widely used course text and practitioner resource, Froma Walsh provides a state-of-the-art framework for understanding resilience in families and how to foster it. Illuminating the complex... (more)
Contemporary Families at the Nexus of Research and Practice
Contemporary Families at the Nexus of Research and Practice integrates current research with clinical theory to establish the most up-to-date, evidence-supported treatment options for unique... (more)
The Principles of Pleasure: Working with the Good Stuff as Sex Therapists and Educators
There are tremendous benefits to discussing the subject of sexual and emotional pleasure with clients, and this book addresses the challenges and misconceptions of doing just that. Laura Rademacher... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children details the application of IFS in child psychotherapy. The weaving together of theory, step-by-step instruction, and case material gives child therapists... (more)
Twin Dilemmas: Changing Relationships Throughout the Life Span
The development of how twins relate to each other and their single partners is explored through life stories and clinical examples in this telling study of twin interconnections. While the quality of... (more)
The Work-Family Interface in Global Context
Based on a sweeping, ten country study, The Work-Family Interface in Global Context comprises the most comprehensive and rigorous cross-cultural study of the work-family interface to date. Just as... (more)
Why Siblings Matter: The Role of Sibling Relationships in Development and Well-Being
Why Siblings Matter is a cornerstone text on siblinghood, offering a much-needed scientific update on the supportive role of sibling relationships. Integrating findings from a 10 year longitudinal... (more)
Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times
This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War, and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to multiple ways of doing... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)