Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Family Violence in Primary Care
This book for GPs on family violence aims to provide the theoretical and practical grounding to respond effectively and safely to all forms of violence. Contributions are drawn from general practice... (more)
Sistering:
This volume explores the significance of sister relationships in women's lives. It documents sistering experiences through narratives of growing up, caring for the family, leaving home, and becoming... (more)
Action Therapy with Families and Groups: Using Creative Arts Improvisa
This title introduces clinicians to innovative therapeutic options that can be used with families and groups: action methods or therapy approaches involving physical movement and expressive arts... (more)
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (Hardback)
This influential volume provides a comprehensive introduction to emotionally focused therapy (EFT): its theoretical foundations, techniques, and clinical practice. EFT is a structured approach to... (more)
Becoming Parents: Exploring the Bonds Between Mothers, Fathers, and Their Infants
This volume examines the transition to parenthood from the perspective of adult attachment theory. It reviews previous studies of the transition to parenthood and of adult attachments, and presents... (more)
School behaviour and families: Frameworks for working together
This work focuses on the relationship that schools have with parents and carers, especially in the early stages of behavioural difficulty. It aims to promote the best possible partnership with... (more)
Daughtering and Mothering
Challenging accepted psychoanalytic views, this book focusses on daughtering as an active process to explore previously unexamined aspects of this central and fundamental relationship (more)
Schools and families: Creating essential connections for children's learning
This practical volume is designed to help school practitioners and educators build stronger connections with families and enhance students' achievement. (more)
The hidden victims of Alzheimer's disease: Families under stress
Offers advice on care, explains how to handle inappropriate public behavior, and discusses treatments, support groups, and individual counseling. (more)
Sex, love and violence: Strategies for transformation
This work proposes a model for choosing the right intervention to solve the problems which are brought to therapy. The emphasis is on how to understand and control the many forms of violence... (more)
The psychology of adoption:
This volume brings together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex, interdisciplinary subject of adoption. It takes an integrated approach, examining... (more)
Developmental psychopathology and family process: Theory, research, and clinical implications
Reviewing current research in such areas as attachment and parenting styles, marital functioning, and parental depression, the volume examines how these variables may influence developmental... (more)
Families of schizophrenic patients: Cognitive behavioural intervention
Written for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, and social workers, this study presents techniques for providing care for the entire family of schizophrenic patients.... (more)
Becoming a family: Parents' stories and their implications for practice, policy, and research
This work seeks to enhance understanding of family-life development by shedding light on the meanings that family members ascribe to the developmental process of becoming a family. This is achieved... (more)