Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It: Effective Therapeutic Responses and Techniques
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It, Third Edition, is one of the most practical and flexible textbooks available to counseling students. The new edition includes more than one hundred techniques... (more)
Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being
Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, life-altering, and life-challenging events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents' return-to-work, the task of... (more)
Counseling Addicted Families: A Sequential Assessment and Treatment Model
Counseling Addicted Families: Second Edition, is an up-to-date treatment manual that fosters lasting change for families dealing with addiction and addictive disorders. Focused around the clinically... (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)
Doing Couple Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners: Second Edition
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert... (more)
Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice
A family therapy textbook for our time. This substantial collection of 27 chapters from leading international family therapists showcases groundbreaking practice. It situates systemic practice in... (more)
Systemic Inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research
This collection has been written by eminent members of the systemic communities to inspire reflexive practitioners and offer leading edge systemic research methodology with innovative approaches to... (more)
Marital Tensions: Clinical Studies Towards a Psychological Theory of Interaction (Psychology Revivals)
Originally published in 1967, this book gathers together the various aspects of Dr Dick's theoretical and clinical approach to marriage difficulties into a coherent system for the benefit of... (more)
Love, Sex and Long-term Relationships: What People with Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want
What are the motivations and desires behind relationship choices and sexual behaviour? Are they very different for those with Asperger Syndrome (AS) than for anyone else? Does having extreme... (more)
Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity... (more)
Mindfulness in Sexual and Relationship Therapy
Mindfulness represents the most significant shift in the world of counselling and psychotherapy within the last decade. Mindful approaches have been hailed as the 'third wave' of cognitive... (more)
Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is commonplace and devastating and is a major public health concern. In Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, Anna Motz integrates psychological and criminological... (more)
Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy: Exploring the Middle Ground
During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble. In Object Relations and... (more)
Sibling Abuse Trauma: Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children Families and Adults: Second Edition
This book describes an integrative, strengths-based approach to individual and family psychotherapy guided by the effects of abuse trauma on the development of sibling relationships. It fills a void... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions
Internal family systems therapy, or IFS, is widely recognized as one of the most compassionate and comprehensive psychotherapies available. Its non-pathologizing approaches to behavior,... (more)
Working with Trauma: Systemic Approaches
The toxic nature of trauma can make it an overwhelming area of work. This book by a recognised expert adopts a systemic perspective, focusing on the individual in context. Very positively, it shows... (more)
Helping Couples Get Past the Affair: A Clinician's Guide
From leading marital therapists and researchers, this unique book presents a three-stage therapy approach for clinicians working with couples struggling in the aftermath of infidelity. The book... (more)
Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
Studies have proven that involving the family in psychiatric care is efficacious, and yet many clinicians lack the specific knowledge and skills to do this successfully. The Clinical Manual of... (more)
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention: Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Treatment of abuse and neglect needs to be family-focused in order to reduce troubling symptoms, address family risk and relapse potential, treat cross-generational patterns, and remediate attachment... (more)
Common Dilemmas in Couples Therapy
This book addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices, problems that leave therapists exhausted, drained, challenged, alive, racing, and on edge. (more)
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View is an invitation to the world of literature, drawing us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays... (more)
The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents
This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers... (more)
Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy: Adversity, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet lifes challenges in narrative and family therapy? Clients' experiences of hope and despair can be complex, reflecting... (more)
The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Do people with schizophrenia ever get better? With the vast majority of those with the disorder dependent on their families for care, close relatives often grapple with that question. "The Complete... (more)
Don D. Jackson: Selected Essays at the Dawn of an Era
These rare chapters offer a detailed portrait of Jackson and his work, with insightful introductions to frame the three sections into which the papers are divided: Early Clinical Observations,... (more)
Relationship Counselling: Sons and Their Mothers: A Person-Centred Dialogue
Young men trying to resolve traumatic experiences and relationship issues with their mothers is not an area that has attracted a great deal of attention, and yet it is not uncommon. Peter is 28,... (more)