Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Finding a Voice: Family Therapy for Young People with Anorexia
Young people develop anorexia because they are unhappy. In the process of becoming anorexic they silence themselves and distance themselves from parental support. Family therapy can help patients by... (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)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Couples and Families: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
From a leading expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy and couple and family therapy, this comprehensive guide combines cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom. The author shows how therapeutic... (more)
The Baby and the Couple: Understanding and Treating Young Families
The Baby and the Couple provides an insider's view on how infant communication develops in the context of the family and how parents either work together as a team or struggle in the process. The... (more)
Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience
Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a... (more)
Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions: Inviting Relational Understandings for Therapeutic Change
This book presents a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The... (more)
The Distracted Couple: The Impact of ADHD on Adult Relationships
The Distracted Couple identifies the aspects of adult ADHD that impact marriages and relationships, and provides a number of interventions, strategies and treatments to effectively address these... (more)
The Love Secret: The Revolutionary Science of Romantic Relationships
We are in danger of being swept away on a tide of pessimism about love and relationships. Endless cynical stories of affairs by politicians, athletes and celebrities fill the media. The dominant... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy
Human beings live in constant battle with issues that are fundamental to their existence. Whether it is a fear of death or problems with intimacy, learning to live with these issues whilst loving... (more)
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love
In this seminal new study of family, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing so. He introduces us to families... (more)
The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set
The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set offers two valuable products, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook and The Casebook at a discount of 10%. Written primarily by... (more)
Sons and Fathers: Challenges to Paternal Authority
Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles.... (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)
Reconcilable Differences: Rebuild Your Relationship by Rediscovering the Partner You Love: Second Edition
If only he could see things from my point of view. Why does she have to act that way? No matter how much two people love each other, their differences will eventually cause conflict. This popular,... (more)
Couples in Treatment: Techniques and Approaches for Effective Practice: Third Edition
This third edition of Couples in Treatment helps readers conceptualize and treat couples from multiple perspectives and with a multitude of techniques. The authors do not advocate any single approach... (more)
Bereavement Care for Families
Grief is a family affair. When a loved one dies, the distress reverberates throughout the immediate and extended family. Family therapy has long attended to issues of loss and grief, yet not as the... (more)
Winnicott and 'Good Enough' Couple Therapy: Reflections of a Couple Therapist
Claire Rabin innovatively applies the Winnicottian theory of the 'good enough mother' to couple therapy, redirecting attention to the therapeutic relationship and the therapist's self-awareness... (more)
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 4 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 4 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)
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy
This book reviews the research and philosophical foundations for using mindfulness, acceptance, and Buddhist psychology in couple and family therapy. It also provides a detailed and practical... (more)
Tokens of Affection: Reclaiming Your Marriage After Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression is hard on a marriage. In their private practices, authors Karen Kleiman and Amy Wenzel often find themselves face-to-face with marriages that are suffocating, as if the... (more)
The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties
Family therapy trainees are inundated with a multitude of family therapy theories. They also have difficulty shifting from an individualistic view to one of seeing interactions and systems. How do... (more)
Losing a Parent to Suicide: Using Lived Experiences to Inform Bereavement Counseling
The suicide of a parent has life-long consequences; few more traumatic scenarios exist, and counselors often struggle for ways to help clients deal with its effects. Few understand the pain and... (more)
Autism in the Family: Caring and Coping Together
A warm, down-to-earth, and practical guide for parents and an enlightening read for the professionals who work with them. This book will be a valuable companion as families love and support their... (more)
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our... (more)
Mindfulness-Based Play-Family Therapy: Theory and Practice
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for helping children through play therapy that is set within the context of the family. This experience-based therapeutic model respectfully... (more)
Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology and Couple Therapy
Couple therapy can be transformed by understanding neurobiology: How are we wired for certain behaviours and how can we change? Helping clients to understand the way in which their brains work to... (more)
Talking with Couples: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Couple Relationship
‘In this compact and illuminating study of the evolving theoretical framework informing psychoanalytic work with couples, the authors highlight concepts that have been most drawn upon in developing... (more)
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to... (more)