Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Tokens of Affection: Reclaiming Your Marriage After Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression is hard on a marriage. In their private practices, authors Karen Kleiman and Amy Wenzel often find themselves face-to-face with marriages that are suffocating, as if the... (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)
Losing a Parent to Suicide: Using Lived Experiences to Inform Bereavement Counseling
The suicide of a parent has life-long consequences; few more traumatic scenarios exist, and counselors often struggle for ways to help clients deal with its effects. Few understand the pain and... (more)
Autism in the Family: Caring and Coping Together
A warm, down-to-earth, and practical guide for parents and an enlightening read for the professionals who work with them. This book will be a valuable companion as families love and support their... (more)
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our... (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)
Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology and Couple Therapy
Couple therapy can be transformed by understanding neurobiology: How are we wired for certain behaviours and how can we change? Helping clients to understand the way in which their brains work to... (more)
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to... (more)
The Disappearing Male
The Disappearing Male by Joan Lachkar, PhD, provides a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic description of eight different kinds of men who disappear from relationships without warning or explanation. The... (more)
Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy: Exploring the Middle Ground
During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble. In Object Relations and... (more)
The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy: Mindful Integrations with Neuroscience
Why should family therapists care about brain research? Are there invisible connections between the breakdown of our relationships and the breakdown of our cells? To answer these questions, author... (more)
Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World that Pulls Us Apart: Second Edition
All couples walk to the altar dreaming of happily ever after, but many forces in our society work against healthy lifelong commitment. Renowned family therapist William J. Doherty has helped many... (more)
The Dilemmas of Intimacy: Conceptualization, Assessment and Treatment
The Dilemmas of Intimacy applies evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral interventions to therapeutic work with couples and individuals who have problems with intimacy. Karen Prager introduces a... (more)
The Couple and Family Technology Framework: Intimate Relationships in a Digital Age
Couples and families worldwide have a constant electronic connection to others, a fact that is influencing the concerns and issues they bring to therapy. The authors of this resource help mental... (more)
Behavioral Health: Integrating Individual and Family Interventions in the Treatment of Medical Conditions
The emergence of behavioral health, how it is practiced, and how it will be practiced is at the heart of this book. Len Sperry, a prominent author and educator, is one of the first to describe and... (more)
Sibling Abuse Trauma: Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children Families and Adults: Second Edition
This book describes an integrative, strengths-based approach to individual and family psychotherapy guided by the effects of abuse trauma on the development of sibling relationships. It fills a void... (more)
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage is about the dynamics of intimate interpersonal relationships (dating and marriage) - how and why human pairings occur, what... (more)
The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of... (more)
Foster Parenting Step-by-step: How to Nurture the Traumatized Child and Overcome Conflict
When parents decide to foster, they are faced with many difficult decisions, dilemmas and questions. How do you navigate the daily struggles of foster parenting? How can you nurture bonds with your... (more)
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a... (more)
Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy
An ideal supplemental text, this instructive casebook presents in-depth illustrations of treatment based on the most important couple therapy models. An array of leading clinicians offer a window... (more)
Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family: Second Edition
This empowering guide is the leading resource for the growing numbers of grandparents confronted with the challenges (and joys) of childrearing all over again. Providing urgently needed information,... (more)
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships: What Works and What Doesn't
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships draws on current research, a wide variety of clinical modalities, and thirty years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe the special... (more)
Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family: Permitted and Forbidden Stories
The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don't know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common... (more)
Changing Self-Destructive Habits: Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families
For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse - five crippling, self-destructive behaviors - are given a common... (more)
Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples
Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT) is developed to accurately address the relational experiences of persons in de-valued cultural groups. As a model, it is ideal for work with couples: it encourages... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions
Internal family systems therapy, or IFS, is widely recognized as one of the most compassionate and comprehensive psychotherapies available. Its non-pathologizing approaches to behavior,... (more)
What Makes Us Stay Together?: Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships
In recent years commentators have speculated on the “collapse” of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break... (more)
Stop Domestic Violence: Innovative Skills, Techniques, Options, and Plans for Better Relationships: Third Edition
The third edition of the acclaimed Domestic Violence 2000, this comprehensive instruction manual teaches group leaders how to effectively and successfully administer David B. Wexler's trusted... (more)
Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power
Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and brain development, Terri Apter, an internationally... (more)