Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 12 Number 1 – Special Issue: Therapy in the time of Covid-19
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Same-Sex Couples and Other Identities: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book provides a contemporary exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer relationships, challenging heteronormative practice... (more)
Assessment in Couple Therapy: Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships
This innovative text offers a simple but comprehensive framework for couple assessment that integrates research and information on couples from a wide range of models.
Using the 7 Cs as a basis... (more)
An Emotionally Focused Workbook for Couples: The Two of Us: Second Edition
The second edition of this essential and newly updated workbook is intended for use with couples who want to enhance their emotional connection or overcome their relationship distress. It closely... (more)
The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations
Noted for its accessibility, this text--now revised and updated to reflect a decade of advances in the field--examines how attitudes and beliefs about gender profoundly shape all aspects of daily... (more)
Children, Technology and Healthy Development: How to help kids be safe and thrive online
How can adults keep children safe and healthy online now and in the future? How can we thrive alongside technology? This highly accessible book unpacks the latest psychological research, attachment... (more)
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications in a Range of Clinical Settings
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives explores how attachment-based ideas can be used in clinical practice by offering a practical and sophisticated exposition of clinical approaches. ... (more)
Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy
This comprehensive second edition inspires therapists to utilize clinical work to pragmatically address intersectional oppressions, lessen the burden of minority stress, and implement effective LGBTQ... (more)
The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology: Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care
Now in a revised and updated third edition, this noted practitioner guide and text incorporates the latest knowledge about psychopharmacology and collaborative care. Therapists and counselors learn... (more)
Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness
A clear, cogent, and comprehensive account of the rationale and methods of Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue, this volume introduces models of facilitated dialogue designed specifically to end... (more)
Relationships in Recovery: Repairing Damage and Building Healthy Connections While Overcoming Addiction
One of the most devastating aspects of addiction is the damage it causes to relationships--with intimate partners, family, friends, or colleagues. But recovery programs often recommend that you focus... (more)
Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals
Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals is an essential guide that integrates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with cultural humility. It provides a pathbreaking,... (more)
An Arts Therapeutic Approach to Maternal Holding: Developing Healthy Mother and Child Holding Relationships
Little research has explored the everyday, simple and long-term experience of maternal holding, particularly after the first year of a child's life. The research that has been undertaken commonly... (more)
Managing the Aftermath of Infidelity: A Sequential Guide for Therapists and Couples
This book tackles the challenges that arise from infidelity by helping couples heal through the initial experiences of discovery, providing tools to help partners disclose the details of the affair,... (more)
Moral Development in Couple Therapy: A New Approach to Kohlberg's Stages
This innovative text utilizes Kohlberg's stages of moral development, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied to couple and marriage therapy.
Facilitating moral stage development has... (more)
The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties
This cutting-edge second edition of The Craft of Family Therapy revisits some of Salvador Minuchin's most famous cases, guiding trainee therapists through basic techniques and ideas while... (more)
Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblings: A Handbook for Professionals, Family, and Friends
Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblingsis based on lived experiences and provides insight, ideas, and inspiration on how to support the bereaved, how to talk to them about their experience, and... (more)
Supporting Children when Parents Separate: Embedding a Crisis Intervention Approach within Family Justice, Education and Mental Health Policy
After years of research and reflection on the work of the interdisciplinary family justice system Mervyn Murch offers a fresh approach to supporting the thousands of children every year who... (more)
The Science of Family Systems Theory
This accessible text examines how the science of autonomy and adaptation informs all family therapy approaches and discusses how clinicians can use this science to improve their... (more)
Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: The ‘No Kids in the Middle’ Intervention Programme
The "No Kids in the Middle" (Kinderen uit de Knel) intervention programme addresses high-conflict divorce through a multi-family approach. This first English language edition contains descriptions of... (more)
Marriage and Family in Modern China: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China.
The book... (more)
Attraction Explained: The science of how we form relationships
When it comes to relationships, there's no shortage of advice from self-help 'experts', pick-up artists, and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths of attraction often have no basis in fact or -... (more)
Therapeutic Stories for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families: Addressing the Domino Effect of Issues Facing 10–14-Year-Olds
This accessible resource contains therapeutic stories and guidance for adults who are supporting young people aged 10-14 in foster, adoptive or kinship families. With a solution-focused approach, the... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
What Makes Us Human: How Minds Develop through Social Interactions
"How do you go from a bunch of cells to something that can think?" This question, asked by the 9-year-old son of one of the authors, speaks to a puzzle that lies at the heart of this book. How are we... (more)
International Family Therapy: A Guide for Multilateral Systemic Practice in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
International Family Therapy brings the international plane and its emphasis on the global community of states to systemic family therapy.
Informed by a coherent, multilateral perspective, each... (more)
Tandem Couples Counseling: An Innovative Approach to Working with High Conflict Couples
This book introduces the protocol known as Tandem Couples Counseling (TCC), a ground-breaking model that provides sound theoretical explanations and interventions that address the inherent... (more)
Couple Relationships in a Global Context: Understanding Love and Intimacy Across Cultures
This book examines the significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century, exploring in depth how couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world. It highlights global... (more)
The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy: Systemic Family Therapy with Couples: Volume 3
Volume III of The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy focuses on therapy with couples. Information on the effectiveness of relational treatment is included along with consideration of the most... (more)
Contemporary Male Sexuality: Confronting Myths and Promoting Change
This accessible guide confronts myths and pressures surrounding men and sex, promoting a positive and healthy model of male sexuality that replaces traditional expectations.
The chapters in this... (more)