Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
My Kid is Back: Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa
My Kid is Back explains how family-based treatment can greatly reduce the severity of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents, allowing the sufferer to return to normal eating patterns, and... (more)
Psychosis in the Family: The Journey of a Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Mother
This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in... (more)
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind
An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the... (more)
How to Overcome Premature Ejaculation.
This text discusses male sexual response and the cause of its disorders, and provides advice on leading a more normal sex life. (more)
The Intimate Couple
As important as intimacy is in our personal and professional lives, intimacy as a theoretical and clinical factor still remains a phenomenon. Currently, there appears to be as many definitions of... (more)
A Systemic Approach to Consultation
A Systemic Approach to Consultation discusses the application of systemic thinking to work within organizations. The authors draw on their experiences of consulting with teams, departments and whole... (more)
Teaching Family Therapy
The teaching of family therapy has been the subject of serious scrutiny since the onset of training and accreditation many years ago, yet there are relatively few attempts to apply what we know about... (more)
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children
This book suggests how to work with emotional and behavioural problems in orphaned children, using the following approaches: distinguishing between old and new parents; adjusting the child to the... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Second Edition
Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world. IFS reveals how... (more)
How to Talk to a
Bringing to light new developments in the treatment of marital conflict, this second edition of How to Talk to a Narcissist addresses the ever-changing faces and phases of narcissism within the... (more)
Couple and Family Assessment: Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies
The field of family, child, and couple assessment continues to evolve and change since the first edition of this book appeared in 2004. Couple and Family Assessment, Third Edition, is a thoroughly... (more)
Family Therapy and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: The Family Matters Model
This accessible guide offers a much-needed integration of family therapy into the treatment of substance use disorders. By proposing a means by which family therapy can be moved to the forefront of... (more)
Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings: Illustrations of Systemic Approaches in Everyday Clinical Work
Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings showcases the dynamism of systemic family therapy supervision/consultation as it expands beyond typical and historical traditions. In this unique... (more)
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting brings together experts who consider difficult questions that can arise during family proceedings, and respond with practical approaches for dealing with these... (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)
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)
Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? When this is the question of an empirical research project, it poses methodological challenges: how can... (more)
Multicultural Family Art Therapy
How does the family art therapist understand the complexities of another's cultural diversity? What are international family therapist's perspectives on treatment? These questions and more are... (more)
The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties
Family therapy trainees are inundated with a multitude of family therapy theories. They also have difficulty shifting from an individualistic view to one of seeing interactions and systems. How do... (more)
Mindfulness-Based Play-Family Therapy: Theory and Practice
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for helping children through play therapy that is set within the context of the family. This experience-based therapeutic model respectfully... (more)
Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family Problems
This book is written for parents of young children - those struggling with chronic child behavior problems as well as those who simply wish to parent mindfully and compassionately, and who are... (more)
Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations
Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.
Michael White's untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a... (more)
Marrying Well: The Clinician's Guide to Premarital Counseling
Therapists who do not specialise in premarital counselling are often called on to provide this therapy or they may wish to expand into this field. In this title, two therapists with decades of... (more)
Sorrow's Profiles: Death, Grief, and Crisis in the Family
'Dr Richard Alapack, sensitively and with deep understanding, orchestrates a survivor's journey through the complex country of sorrow. Alapack challenges and transcends the received scientific view... (more)
Resource Focused Therapy
For some time the family therapy field has been moving away from a problem-based approach to work with clients. Ideas such as "creating a new family story", focusing on strengths and solutions, and... (more)
Second Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of the Milan Approach to Family Therapy
Second Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of the Milan Approach to Family Therapy is a full discussion of the way the original techniques of the Milan Approach have been affected by current thinking... (more)
Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy
Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or she observes, and the second is that the therapist... (more)
Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice: New Critical Reflections
In Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice, the four co-authors come together to rhizomatically consider how systemic theories can be reinvigorated in the present day.
This... (more)