Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Hitchhiking through Asperger Syndrome
Written from a parent's perspective, this book gives a candid and thoughtful account of one family's trek through the world of Asperger's Syndrome. The author makes it very clear that, while... (more)
Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Mental health professionals consider the impact of death on entire family systems, the multiple generational legacies of loss, and the differential impact of a death depending on the developmental... (more)
Helping Families in Family Centres: Working at Therapeutic Practice
This book is a comprehensive guide for family centre workers, their managers and senior managers, and for all social workers working with children and families. As family centres are becoming an... (more)
Sex in Loving Relationships: The Relate Guide
Sex is part of a loving relationship. However, really loving someone doesn't always mean the sex will be wonderful - it might be as routine and dull as brushing your teeth, it might be difficult, or... (more)
Bereaved Parents and Their Continuing Bonds: Love After Death
For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a... (more)
The Trouble with Illness: How Illness and Disability Affect Relationships
This impressively honest book explores the effects a challenging disability or illness can have on the mind and personal relationships, and how others can help. Illness or disability can isolate... (more)
Parental Vigilant Care: A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers
This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescents. The effective component in vigilant care is not... (more)
Family Therapy: Skills and Techniques in Action
Relationships are a resource for healing a range of psychological difficulties. This is the fundamental principle of family therapy, an increasingly influential form of psychotherapy that is building... (more)
Focused Genograms: Intergenerational Assessment of Individuals, Couples, and Families: Second Edition
Focused Genograms introduces and provides a guide to constructing focused genograms through the lens of attachment theory. A genogram is a graphic representation of an intergenerational family tree... (more)
Identity, Attachment and Resilience: Exploring Three Generations of a Polish Family
Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity. The field encompasses... (more)
Therapeutic Relationships: The Tripartite Model: Development and Applications to Family Systems Theory
In this text, Butler takes an in-depth look at the development of family systems theory and how the work of Bowen, Gelso, and Meissner has shaped family psychotherapy. Family systems theory considers... (more)
Come Closer: On Love and Self-Protection
Everyone engages in self-protecting behaviours to some extent, but when these begin to take on the form of bad habits, they can be damaging. People often use self-protection strategies in love and... (more)
Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families: Fourth Edition
This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a Global Perspectives... (more)
Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following... (more)
Strengthening Family Resilience: Third Edition
In this widely used course text and practitioner resource, Froma Walsh provides a state-of-the-art framework for understanding resilience in families and how to foster it. Illuminating the complex... (more)
Contemporary Families at the Nexus of Research and Practice
Contemporary Families at the Nexus of Research and Practice integrates current research with clinical theory to establish the most up-to-date, evidence-supported treatment options for unique... (more)
The Principles of Pleasure: Working with the Good Stuff as Sex Therapists and Educators
There are tremendous benefits to discussing the subject of sexual and emotional pleasure with clients, and this book addresses the challenges and misconceptions of doing just that. Laura Rademacher... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children details the application of IFS in child psychotherapy. The weaving together of theory, step-by-step instruction, and case material gives child therapists... (more)
Twin Dilemmas: Changing Relationships Throughout the Life Span
The development of how twins relate to each other and their single partners is explored through life stories and clinical examples in this telling study of twin interconnections. While the quality of... (more)
The Work-Family Interface in Global Context
Based on a sweeping, ten country study, The Work-Family Interface in Global Context comprises the most comprehensive and rigorous cross-cultural study of the work-family interface to date. Just as... (more)
Why Siblings Matter: The Role of Sibling Relationships in Development and Well-Being
Why Siblings Matter is a cornerstone text on siblinghood, offering a much-needed scientific update on the supportive role of sibling relationships. Integrating findings from a 10 year longitudinal... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 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)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 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)
Breaking Negative Relationship Patterns: A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book
Schema Therapy (ST) was developed to treat patients with complex disorders, especially personality disorders, with a powerful new set of interventions. Personality disorders, as well as more general... (more)
Autism and the Family: Understanding and Supporting Parents and Siblings
The reverberations of autism spectrum disorders among parents and siblings can be complex. Parents may grapple with the impact of their child's initial diagnosis, wrestle with the tension between... (more)
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised... (more)
Behavioral, Humanistic-Existential, and Psychodynamic Approaches to Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is distinct from individual and family therapy and, while ideas from these other formats may be overlapping, applying theoretical concepts to couples has distinctive challenges.... (more)