Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience
Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to... (more)
Siblings: The Autism Spectrum Through Our Eyes
Growing up with a sibling on the autistic spectrum can be difficult, and the needs of a child with autism often overwhelm a family, leaving neurotypical children feeling overshadowed. This book... (more)
Rebuilding Lives After Domestic Violence: Understanding Long-term Outcomes
Examines in-depth the long-term outcomes for women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse, based on interviews conducted over seven years. Through these interviews the author reveals the... (more)
Happy Families: A Parents' Guide to the Non-violent Resistance Approach
Parenting a child with behavioral problems can be exhausting, and finding a way to familial harmony may at times seem like an impossible task. Where do you even begin? Is there a way to break... (more)
Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment: How to Interpret Childrens Needs
The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers... (more)
Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
Studies have proven that involving the family in psychiatric care is efficacious, and yet many clinicians lack the specific knowledge and skills to do this successfully. The Clinical Manual of... (more)
Enhancing Resilience in Survivors of Family Violence
This book discusses resilience in survivors of childhood incest, children of battered women, and individuals formerly in violent domestic relationships. According to resiliency theory, resilient... (more)
The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research
This unique volume attests to the coming of age of research on family violence. Leading authorities in this interdisciplinary area offer useful insights into such concerns as wife-battering, child... (more)
Fostering Now: Messages from Research
What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? What are the most important... (more)
Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide
The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face... (more)
Overcoming Anger in Your Relationship: How to Break the Cycle of Arguments, Put-Downs, and Stony Silences
From anger expert Dr Robert Nay - who has helped thousands of individuals and couples learn new ways of resolving conflicts - this straight-talking book provides clear-cut, practical techniques for... (more)
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)
Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective
From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable... (more)
Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Treatment Model for Working with Troubled Adolescents
Clinically relevant, theoretically sound, and scientifically based, Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice contains systematic discussions of topics and theoretical perspectives, as well as... (more)
Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Clinical Treatment Model: Second Edition
This Second Edition is an up-to-date model based on more than twenty years of work and research with outpatient couples groups. In the text, therapists will find everything they need to conceptualize... (more)
Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach: Second Edition
Family-focused psychoeducational treatment (FFT) is among a very small number of psychosocial treatments that have been found to be effective in multiple studies to improve the course of bipolar... (more)
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder... (more)
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention: Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Treatment of abuse and neglect needs to be family-focused in order to reduce troubling symptoms, address family risk and relapse potential, treat cross-generational patterns, and remediate attachment... (more)
Jay Haley Revisited
Jay Haley Revisited brings together some of the influential professionals in the field of therapy to introduce, analyze, and put into context some of the significant papers Jay Haley produced, both... (more)
Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide
The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult - but also one of the most common - factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical,... (more)
Adolescence, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing A Threat of Degeneration
Why does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? This book outlines a critical view of "teenage pregnancy" and abortion, arguing that the... (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)
Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy
Neuroscience and couples therapy come together to help couples break patterns of bad behavior. What happens between partners that makes love turn to war? How can couples therapists help de-escalate... (more)
Couple Counselling: A Practical Guide
This practical book outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, the author provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through... (more)
Family Therapy
There are many different types of family therapy, but at the heart of each is systems theory, a model that arose from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, and cybernetics. The main clinical... (more)
The Vibrant Family: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals
Family life! We tackle it head-on with great enthusiasm and lots of hopes and dreams that our family will be filled with love, closeness, well-being and development.
However, for many of us family... (more)
The Vibrant Relationship: A Handbook for Couples and Therapists
Creating and sustaining a vibrant relationship is one of the most difficult challenges we come across in our lives. But when we do succeed, it is the source of a truly deep and lasting happiness. To... (more)
How to Talk with Family Caregivers About Cancer
Cancer affects not only patients but their loved ones as well. This book responds to families questions and fears with compassion, guiding professionals on counselling caregivers and families, from... (more)
How to Talk to Families About Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
When a young person suffers from an anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, the entire family supporting that young person suffers, too.
This is a practical and accessible... (more)
Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems
Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems - what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so. The modern family is inundated with information and no... (more)