Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Breaking Negative Relationship Patterns: A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book
Schema Therapy (ST) was developed to treat patients with complex disorders, especially personality disorders, with a powerful new set of interventions. Personality disorders, as well as more general... (more)
Autism and the Family: Understanding and Supporting Parents and Siblings
The reverberations of autism spectrum disorders among parents and siblings can be complex. Parents may grapple with the impact of their child's initial diagnosis, wrestle with the tension between... (more)
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised... (more)
Behavioral, Humanistic-Existential, and Psychodynamic Approaches to Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is distinct from individual and family therapy and, while ideas from these other formats may be overlapping, applying theoretical concepts to couples has distinctive challenges.... (more)
Foundations for Couples' Therapy: Research for the Real World
As a quality resource that examines the psychological, neurobiological, cultural, and spiritual considerations that undergird optimal couple care, Foundations for Couples' Therapy teaches readers to... (more)
Parents are Our Other Client: Ideas for Therapists, Social Workers, Support Workers, and Teachers
Parents Are Our Other Client: Ideas for Therapists, Social Workers, Support Workers, and Teachers stands out among the vast literature on counseling children and families by finally giving... (more)
Relational Family Therapy: The Systemic, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic Experience
Relational Family Therapy introduces a cutting-edge family and couple therapy model that synthesizes relational theories and integrates object relations theory with interpersonal psychoanalysis and... (more)
Innovations in Family Therapy for Eating Disorders: Novel Treatment Developments, Patient Insights, and the Role of Carers
'This book is essential reading for any health care professional in this field. The writing is crisp and compelling, superbly edited. The chapters move from history and theory to detailed approaches... (more)
Constructivist, Critical, and Integrative Approaches to Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is distinct from individual and family therapy and, while ideas from these other formats may be overlapping, applying theoretical concepts to couples has distinctive challenges.... (more)
Parenting: Contemporary Clinical Perspectives
Parenting: Contemporary Clinical Perspectives offers fresh insights into treating parents and their children that highlight the evolving role of parents throughout the lifespan and amidst... (more)
Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment
Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment offers an engaging and practical integration of expressive arts and play therapy within family counseling. Building upon the most current research in family... (more)
Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples
Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples offers the field of marriage and family therapy a breakthrough model for equipping therapists to help couples achieve intense,... (more)
Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy: Second Edition
Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy, Second Edition builds upon the strong foundations of the first edition. This new edition addresses the 2015 AAMFT Code of Ethics as well... (more)
Enhancing Culturally Integrative Family Safety Response in Muslim Communities
This informative new volume presents the Culturally Integrative Family Safety Response (CIFSR) model that is currently being used by the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration... (more)
Psychotherapy with Families: An Analytic Approach
Originally published in 1981, this study is the outcome of a clinical workshop based in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic; its members at the time shared a tradition and interest in... (more)
Solution-Focused Cognitive and Systemic Therapy: The Bruges Model
Solution-Focused Cognitive and Systemic Therapy: The Bruges Model is the first book in English to lay out the Bruges Model, a meta-model that incorporates solution-focused therapy in an analysis of... (more)
Multi-Generational Family Therapy: Tools and Resources for the Therapist
Multi-generational Family Therapy reveals the limits of the medical model in treating mental and relational problems. It instead provides a toolkit for therapists, observing family functioning over... (more)
Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy
Martha Sweezy and Ellen L. Ziskind's Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions quickly established itself as essential reading for clinicians who are interested in IFS by illustrating how the... (more)
Families and Forgiveness: Healing Wounds in the Intergenerational Family: Second Edition
Families and Forgiveness, Second Edition gives the therapist a working knowledge of the importance of love and trustworthiness, skills to adequately assess hurt and pain in a family, and different... (more)
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Loss: Mourning, Melancholia and Couples is an important and significant new reference text for clinicians, trainees and all of those involved in assisting couples with... (more)
Music Therapy with Families: Therapeutic Approaches and Theoretical Perspectives
This comprehensive book describes well-defined models of music therapy for working with families in different clinical areas, ranging from families with special needs children or dying family members... (more)
Migration, Illness and Healthcare
Forces such as political conflict, globalization and the growth of the internet, offering news of life elsewhere, mean levels of migration are higher now than at any other time in history. Despite... (more)
Prenatal Development and Parents' Lived Experiences: How Early Events Shape Our Psychophysiology and Relationships
This book presents recent knowledge, research, and theory about the earliest developmental period-from conception to birth-which holds even greater consequences for the health and development of the... (more)
Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide
Pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common condition that can take a substantial toll on the entire family system. Research suggests that families of youth with OCD face a unique set... (more)
Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice
A family therapy textbook for our time. This substantial collection of 27 chapters from leading international family therapists showcases groundbreaking practice. It situates systemic practice in... (more)
Meeting the Needs of Parents Pregnant and Parenting After Perinatal Loss
Despite research which highlights parents' increased anxiety and risk of attachment issues with the pregnancy that follows a perinatal loss, there is often little understanding that bereaved families... (more)
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Classic Edition
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the... (more)
Family Therapy with Muslims
Family Therapy with Muslims is the first guide for mental health professionals who work with Muslims in the family therapy setting. The book opens with a section defining the similarities across... (more)
Exploring Desire and Intimacy: A Workbook for Creative Clinicians
This integrative book is like having a wise supervisor in the room with you. Stop fixing your clients - engage them in their own healing through the Four-Dimensional Wheel of Sexual Experience. Gina... (more)