Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family: Permitted and Forbidden Stories
The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don't know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common... (more)
Changing Self-Destructive Habits: Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families
For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse - five crippling, self-destructive behaviors - are given a common... (more)
Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples
Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT) is developed to accurately address the relational experiences of persons in de-valued cultural groups. As a model, it is ideal for work with couples: it encourages... (more)
What Makes Us Stay Together?: Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships
In recent years commentators have speculated on the “collapse” of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break... (more)
Stop Domestic Violence: Innovative Skills, Techniques, Options, and Plans for Better Relationships: Third Edition
The third edition of the acclaimed Domestic Violence 2000, this comprehensive instruction manual teaches group leaders how to effectively and successfully administer David B. Wexler's trusted... (more)
Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power
Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and brain development, Terri Apter, an internationally... (more)
Chosen: Living with Adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 UK adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Through a broad range of perspectives – adoption within the extended family, late discovery adopted... (more)
Parenting a Teen or Young Adult with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder): 325 Ideas, Insights, Tips and Strategies
Adolescence is a difficult stage in anyone's life, but for an adolescent with Asperger Syndrome (AS) the difficulties are inevitably more complex. Based on her own experience of raising a son with... (more)
The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story
In this new edition of a classic in adoption literature, Mother Bird rises to meet the challenges of bringing up her baby bird against all odds and elements. When a storm scatters her nest, she is... (more)
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts equips parents and primary carers with the knowledge and skills to be able to respond to children's changing needs as they move through childhood. In clear,... (more)
Group Filial Therapy: Training Parents to Conduct Special Play Sessions with Their Own Children
In Group Filial Therapy, therapists train parents to undertake play sessions with their own children until these skills become an integral part of family life. Based on Non-directive Play Therapy... (more)
Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice
In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is... (more)
Helping Traumatized Families: Second Edition
The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families not only offers clinicians a unified, evidence-based theory of the systemic impact of traumatic stress-it also details a systematic... (more)
Directive Family Therapy
Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley and Madeleine Richeport-Haley explain their innovative techniques for solving problems. Directive Family Therapy is the final work of a widely recognized... (more)
New Frontiers in Work and Family Research
The purpose of this volume is to showcase alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to work and family research, and present methodological alternatives to the widely known shortcomings... (more)