Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
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)
The Disappearing Male
The Disappearing Male by Joan Lachkar, PhD, provides a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic description of eight different kinds of men who disappear from relationships without warning or explanation. The... (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)
The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy: Mindful Integrations with Neuroscience
Why should family therapists care about brain research? Are there invisible connections between the breakdown of our relationships and the breakdown of our cells? To answer these questions, author... (more)
Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World that Pulls Us Apart: Second Edition
All couples walk to the altar dreaming of happily ever after, but many forces in our society work against healthy lifelong commitment. Renowned family therapist William J. Doherty has helped many... (more)
The Dilemmas of Intimacy: Conceptualization, Assessment and Treatment
The Dilemmas of Intimacy applies evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral interventions to therapeutic work with couples and individuals who have problems with intimacy. Karen Prager introduces a... (more)
The Couple and Family Technology Framework: Intimate Relationships in a Digital Age
Couples and families worldwide have a constant electronic connection to others, a fact that is influencing the concerns and issues they bring to therapy. The authors of this resource help mental... (more)
Behavioral Health: Integrating Individual and Family Interventions in the Treatment of Medical Conditions
The emergence of behavioral health, how it is practiced, and how it will be practiced is at the heart of this book. Len Sperry, a prominent author and educator, is one of the first to describe 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)
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage is about the dynamics of intimate interpersonal relationships (dating and marriage) - how and why human pairings occur, what... (more)
The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of... (more)
Foster Parenting Step-by-step: How to Nurture the Traumatized Child and Overcome Conflict
When parents decide to foster, they are faced with many difficult decisions, dilemmas and questions. How do you navigate the daily struggles of foster parenting? How can you nurture bonds with your... (more)
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a... (more)
Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy
An ideal supplemental text, this instructive casebook presents in-depth illustrations of treatment based on the most important couple therapy models. An array of leading clinicians offer a window... (more)
Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family: Second Edition
This empowering guide is the leading resource for the growing numbers of grandparents confronted with the challenges (and joys) of childrearing all over again. Providing urgently needed information,... (more)
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships: What Works and What Doesn't
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships draws on current research, a wide variety of clinical modalities, and thirty years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe the special... (more)