Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
The Marriage Clinic Casebook
Presents cases and clinical developments from the Gottman Institute. (more)
All Our Families:
This text challenges the conventional wisdom that American families are disintegrating. It argues that comparing modern families to an imagined typical family of the past is dishonest and misleading.... (more)
Treating Families & Children:
Crenshaw proposes a new integration of many of the existing theories and practices of family and child counselling with those of the welfare, child protection, and social services programs. (more)
Repairing Intimacy: An Object Relations Approach to Couples Therapy
This work uses object relations theory in looking at the psychotherapy of the marital relationship. Object relations theory provides an explanation of how the internal and external worlds are linked... (more)
Getting It Right the First Time: Creating a Healthy Marriage
Barry and Emily McCarthy draw on 35 years of marriage, extensive clinical experience, and illustrative examples to provide younger generations with an informative guide to the vital first years of... (more)
How to Live with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals
This introduction to caring for a child with autism is a useful resource for teachers and for the immediate and extended family members of a child with autism. In clear and simple language, the... (more)
Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice
Adoption is currently taking centre stage in family policy in the UK and USA, with new legislation that places emphasis on providing and maintaining permanent family homes for children separated from... (more)
Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses: Families at Breaking Point
The book describes the author's extensive experience of working as an expert witness in family courts. It provides detailed guidance for assessing families for the courts, as well giving many... (more)
Family Day Care
An examination of the policy and organization of day care, showing how childminding networks have developed in differing economic and social climates. The discussions cover: levels of government... (more)
Families and the State
This title seeks to answer such questions as: how possible is it for the state to steer family values and relationships?; how do we assess claims of harm and benefit from state action and inaction?;... (more)
Class, Gender and the Family Business
In raising questions about the relationship between gender power, class power and enterprise, this book brings an insightful perspective to the study of family capitalism. Based on a study of... (more)
Supporting Families:
Recent government initiatives in professional practice have been designed to help families in difficulty in order to prevent child harm. This text examines whether these changes have worked, by... (more)
Evaluating Family Support
This volume promotes the effective evaluation of family support by drawing together theoretical and technical lessons from a range of experiences drawn from a variety of countries (United Kingdom,... (more)
Handbook of Parenting: Theory, Research and Practice
This text concerns the growing level of interest in research, educational and professional activity within the broadly defined field of parenting. (more)
Mothers Who Leave: Behind the Myth of Women Without Their Children
In Britain 100,000 women live without their children, in the United States at least half a million. Yet mothers who've left are still thought of as abnormal, even deviant. Drawing on her own... (more)
Ten Minutes for the Family: Systemic Interventions in Primary Care
This title is a practical guide for health professionals working in primary care who wish to improve their management of problem patients, problem families and problem situations. Step-by-step, it... (more)
The Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families:
This text offers a guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health and related professions. It offers up-to-date information on political, legislative and... (more)
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged
This work asserts that, as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral and social cornerstone of society disintegrates - and, left unchecked,... (more)
The Space Between: Experience, Context, and Process in the Therapeutic Relationship
The papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk... (more)
Mothers, Babies and their Body Language
This volume explores the complex interaction and the importance of early communication between mother and baby from pregnancy to the first early months of development. It provides a rich and detailed... (more)
Parenting in poor environments: Stress, support and coping
A study of the effect of poor environments on parenting. The authors explore what professionals and policy-makers can do to assist families living in poverty. They include data from in-depth... (more)
The Family and the School: A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children: Second Edition
This reissued classic contains material specifically related to work with schools and reflects the major changes in society, in legislation and in the interaction between families and the education... (more)
Parental Psychiatric Disorder: Distressed Parents and their Families
It is indisputable that mental illness in a parent has serious and often adverse effects on the child, something which is surprisingly unreflected in clinical service provision. In this completely... (more)
Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends
As practitioners increasingly treat culturally diverse populations, it is essential that they be exposed to the global practice of family therapy and the unique values, structure, and circumstances... (more)
Oedipus and the Couple
This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors... (more)