Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists
Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work. The text offers comprehensive,... (more)
Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Therapy Model
Context is the unifying principle that guides a therapist's formulation of the modern family's presenting dilemmas, functioning, relationships, and attitudes. We can no longer assume that a family is... (more)
Common Complaints in Couple Therapy: New Approaches to Treating Marital Conflict
Marriage and couple therapists see clients with broken relationships and bonds all the time; those who were once madly in love can grow indifferent, people change, and couples go into sessions... (more)
The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives
This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide "a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation... (more)
Sexual Healing: Stories and Insights from the Therapist's Couch
Through tales of adultery and addiction, desire and its loss, good sex, bad sex and no sex, sexual power struggles, and childhood abuse, this book covers the big questions about sex: what is the... (more)
Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity... (more)
Couple Therapy for Depression: A Clinician's Guide to Integrative Practice
Depression is second after heart disease as the most damaging health condition in the world. The NHS has devoted huge resources to training thousands of psychological therapists to work in 'Improving... (more)
Working Therapeutically with Families
This resource provides a wealth of activities to use in therapeutic work with families, tailored to meet the particular needs of different types of family. In this book, chapters are organized by... (more)
Finding a Voice: Family Therapy for Young People with Anorexia
Young people develop anorexia because they are unhappy. In the process of becoming anorexic they silence themselves and distance themselves from parental support. Family therapy can help patients by... (more)
Mindfulness in Sexual and Relationship Therapy
Mindfulness represents the most significant shift in the world of counselling and psychotherapy within the last decade. Mindful approaches have been hailed as the 'third wave' of cognitive... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Couples and Families: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
From a leading expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy and couple and family therapy, this comprehensive guide combines cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom. The author shows how therapeutic... (more)
The Baby and the Couple: Understanding and Treating Young Families
The Baby and the Couple provides an insider's view on how infant communication develops in the context of the family and how parents either work together as a team or struggle in the process. The... (more)
Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience
Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a... (more)
Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing
In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing, Dr Mones presents the first comprehensive application of the Internal Family Systems (IFS)... (more)
Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions: Inviting Relational Understandings for Therapeutic Change
This book presents a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The... (more)
The Distracted Couple: The Impact of ADHD on Adult Relationships
The Distracted Couple identifies the aspects of adult ADHD that impact marriages and relationships, and provides a number of interventions, strategies and treatments to effectively address these... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy
Human beings live in constant battle with issues that are fundamental to their existence. Whether it is a fear of death or problems with intimacy, learning to live with these issues whilst loving... (more)
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love
In this seminal new study of family, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing so. He introduces us to families... (more)
The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set
The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set offers two valuable products, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook and The Casebook at a discount of 10%. Written primarily by... (more)
Sons and Fathers: Challenges to Paternal Authority
Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles.... (more)
Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is commonplace and devastating and is a major public health concern. In Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, Anna Motz integrates psychological and criminological... (more)
Reconcilable Differences: Rebuild Your Relationship by Rediscovering the Partner You Love: Second Edition
If only he could see things from my point of view. Why does she have to act that way? No matter how much two people love each other, their differences will eventually cause conflict. This popular,... (more)
Couples in Treatment: Techniques and Approaches for Effective Practice: Third Edition
This third edition of Couples in Treatment helps readers conceptualize and treat couples from multiple perspectives and with a multitude of techniques. The authors do not advocate any single approach... (more)
Bereavement Care for Families
Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the... (more)
Winnicott and 'Good Enough' Couple Therapy: Reflections of a Couple Therapist
Claire Rabin innovatively applies the Winnicottian theory of the 'good enough mother' to couple therapy, redirecting attention to the therapeutic relationship and the therapist's self-awareness... (more)
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 4 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 4 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)
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy
This book reviews the research and philosophical foundations for using mindfulness, acceptance, and Buddhist psychology in couple and family therapy. It also provides a detailed and practical... (more)