Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting brings together experts who consider difficult questions that can arise during family proceedings, and respond with practical approaches for dealing with these... (more)
After adoption: Contact and relationships
Providing a comprehensive understanding of adoption issues and based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives, "After Adoption" considers the impact of direct... (more)
The Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother: Beyond Biological Mothering Attachments
Adoptive, foster and stepmothers, like biological mothers, find their lives completely changed by motherhood although they are not always granted the rights and privileges accorded to those who give... (more)
Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference, and Healing
In this work, Salman Akhtar looks at how many fathers unconsciously, and sometimes quite consciously, attempt to revise their own traumatized childhood by providing their children with possibilities... (more)
Rituals in Families & Family Therapy: Revised Edition
Family rituals are the events, big and small, that give family life texture and meaning. Daily rituals, holiday traditions, and rites of passage mark our time, create unforgettable memories, and... (more)
Short-Term Object Relations Couples Therapy: The Five-Step Model
Brief therapies have become popular - indeed a necessity - in today's managed care environment. Perhaps because it is one of the more complex psychoanalytical models, object relations theory for... (more)
Family Therapy as an Alternative to Medication: An Appraisal of Pharmland
Addresses the issue of the increased reliance on pharmaceuticals as a "quick fix" for treating mental illness. Psychiatric medications have achieved dominance because of political and marketing... (more)
The Counselling of Couples in Health Care Settings: A Handbook for Clinicians
This handbook is aimed at clinicians wanting to cousel couples in hospital, community or domestic settings. Its focus is on helping the reader to form an alliance with the couple to maintain or... (more)
Looking for Oliver: A Mother's Search for the Son she Gave Up for Adoption
Vividly recalling the stigma of her schoolgirl pregnancy and the pain of adoption, the story follows Emma's search for and reunion with Oliver and the consequences this has for her family life. This... (more)
Coming Home Again: A Family-of-Origin Consultation
Coming Home Again is a compelling case study of a single family that underwent family-of-origin therapy, presented by one of the earliest and best-known pioneers in the field. This book is unique in... (more)
Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict: A Behavioral-Family Systems Approach
Parent-adolescent discord is often handled from a unitary perspective, whether the focus is on enhancing parenting skills, resolving conflicts in family relationships, or working to improve the... (more)
Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence: Fear Can Stop You Loving
Exploring the complex issues of trauma, attachment and family placement, the contributors to this book provide a variety of complementary perspectives on practice in this area. Focussing on how to... (more)
Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families
This is a comprehensive anthology on the psychological treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. It covers the full range of current theoretical and therapeutic approaches. It is a major... (more)
Attachment and family systems: Conceptual, empirical and therapeutic relatedness
Attachment and Family Systems is a cogent and compelling text addressing the undeniable overlap between two systems of thought that deal with the nature of interpersonal relationships and how these... (more)
Aesthetics of Change
The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of... (more)
The Alcoholic Family In Recovery: A Developmental Model
Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by... (more)
Short-term couple therapy
A practice-orientated text bringing together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate their short-term work with couples. Case excerpts and clinical examples allow... (more)
After The Fight: Using Your Disagreement To Build A Stronger: Using Your Disagreements To Build A Stronger Relationship
An analysis of a single night in the life of one couple. (more)
Family Therapy: Beyond Postmodernism
Examines postmodernism and its expessions in family therapy, raising questions about reality and realness, the subjective process of truth, and the experience of self. (more)
Hypoactive Sexual Desire: Integrating Sex and Couple Therapy
Over 50% of couples presenting for treatment will complain of insufficient sexual desire in one or both partners. Thus, all clinicians are very likely to encounter HSD in both individual and couple... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Integrating Theory with Practice
Here, in one brief volume, are the answers to many questions on couple therapy. This will be a lifesaver for faily therapy students and beginning therapists. In a straightforward manner, the authors... (more)
Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy
This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided... (more)
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. "New Families, Old Scripts" is an... (more)
Mothers who kill their children:
Mothers Who Kill Their Children draws on extensive research to identify clear patterns among the cases of women who kill their children, shedding light on why some women commit these acts. (more)