Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Treating Couples Well: A Practical Guide to Collaborative Couple Therapy
Treating Couples Well shows clinicians how to create a collaborative approach to couple therapy, which will empower couples to take charge of their own treatment. Written in an engaging and... (more)
The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It
Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples.... (more)
ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship
This pioneering book explores the impact of ADHD on a couple's sex life and relationship. It explains how a better sex life will benefit your relationship (and vice versa) and why that's especially... (more)
The Times of Time: A Perspective on Time in Systemic Therapy and Consultation
This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different ways - individual time, family time, and social time - and how time can... (more)
Falling Out of Romantic Love: A Therapeutic Guide for Individuals, Couples, and Professionals
In this innovative and user-friendly guide, Crystal Hemesath identifies the factors that lead to relationship breakdown and suggests key strategies for the prevention and treatment of falling out of... (more)
Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist
Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist provides support to early career marriage and family therapists who seek authentic and meaningful connections with themselves, their... (more)
The Internet Family: Technology in Couple and Family Relationships
In The Internet Family, Drs. Katherine Hertlein and Markie Twist provide a current and comprehensive look at the effects of technology on couple and family relationships. Beginning with an overview... (more)
Supporting Birth Parents Whose Children Have Been Adopted
Provides professionals who work with birth parents insights into working with this sometimes neglected part of the adoption process. It shows how best to support them, and how to balance support for... (more)
Integrative Play Therapy with Individuals, Families and Groups
Integrative Play Therapy with Individuals, Families and Groups is a complete theory-to-practice introduction to a comprehensive integrative model of play therapy, developed by Shlomo Ariel. It... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 9 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)
Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking,... (more)
Assessing Family Relationships: A Family Life Space Drawing Manual
Assessing Family Relationships shows mental health professionals how to utilize the Family Life Space Drawing (the FLSD), a family assessment tool that incorporates information from multiple family... (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)
Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma: A Manual for Therapists
Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma provides therapists with comprehensive and practical guidance for integrating DCTCT into their work with traumatized couples. The book includes an... (more)
The Creative Therapist in Practice
In The Creative Therapist in Practice Hillary and Bradford Keeney present a radically innovative approach to the practice of therapy. Combining improvisational performing arts, action-oriented... (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)
In Therapy Together: Family Therapy as a Dialogue
Families come in all shapes and sizes, and all have love at their roots; however, by the time a family requests help from a psychotherapist, resentment, fear and disappointment have often become the... (more)
The Disordered Couple
The Disordered Couple, Second Edition focuses on couples with psychiatric disorders and/or relational disorders that significantly impact their relationship, mental health, and well-being. It is the... (more)
Strong Couples
Strong Couples: Basic Skills that Elicit Connection and Transform Relationships introduces an intelligent and flexible framework to guide sessions with couples. Informed by grounded theory research,... (more)
Advances and Techniques in Restoration Therapy
Advances and Techniques in Restoration Therapy focuses on the practical elements of the restoration therapy model to help mental health professionals working with individuals, couples, and families,... (more)
Family Dramas: Intimacy Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Most of Shakespeare's tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 8 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)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families describes SFBT from a systemic perspective and provides students, educators, trainers, and practitioners with a clear explanation and rich examples of... (more)
The Practice of Family Therapy: Key Elements Across Models
Now in its 5th edition, The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse... (more)
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists: From Theory to Practice
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists explores three key theories that underpin many of the models of psychotherapy: general systems theory, natural systems theory, and language systems theory. The... (more)
Couples Therapy - Theory and Effective Practice: Third Edition
This new edition of Couples Therapy tackles four challenges currently facing the field: (1) accountability and the increasing demands for demonstrating effectiveness as a condition for reimbursement,... (more)
Death and Chronic Illness in the Family: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives
What does it mean to be 'present and accounted for' when a family member is facing chronic illness or death? How does one define a self in relation to the ill or dying member and the family? Rooted... (more)
Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic in Work with Families
This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an 'atomized' focus gives rise to. They are evident in the chasm that can exist between child and adult mental health care, between... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 8 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)
The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the Love Lab
World renowned for their work on divorce prediction, here John M. and Julie Schwartz Gottman examine a couples therapy classic: Ludwig von Bertalanffy's 1968 collection General System Theory. This... (more)