Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
The Functional Dialectic System Approach to Therapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families
A comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to contemporary system-based therapy.
The functional dialectic system approach to therapy has been widely embraced and is now used internationally,... (more)
Sacred Matters: Religion and Sprituality in Families
Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 2 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 2 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)
Introduction to Systemic Family Therapy
A rich, informative and practical introduction to working with families in counselling and psychotherapy. Ideas drawn from family and systemic therapy form the basis of many interventions in mental... (more)
Integrating Psychodrama and Systemic Constellation Work: New Directions for Action Methods, Mind-Body Therapies and Energy Healing
Systemic Constellation Work is a rapidly growing experiential healing process that is being embraced by a variety of helping professionals, both traditional and alternative, worldwide. This book... (more)
Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: Understanding Issues Around Immigration and Attachment
Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years.
In... (more)
When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent: Third Edition
The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for... (more)
Readings in Family Therapy: From Theory to Practice
A supplemental resource for the text: Family Therapy: Models, Skills and Techniques: A Comprehensive Introduction, and the Instructors Manual. This reader will serve as a supplemental resource for... (more)
The Role of Sisters in Women's Development
This book provides useful recommendations for therapeutic understanding of the significance of sisters in everyday life, integrating diverse perspectives in order to address the ways clinicians can... (more)
Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and Families
Living with Bipolar Disorder offers a wealth of information on this illness, along with effective strategies to reduce the likelihood of episodes of depression or mania and maximize the enjoyment of... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy for Families in Times of Illness and Death: Second Edition
Living with serious illness has profound effects not only on patients themselves but also on their families. This fully updated edition by a recognized expert focuses on the individual in context,... (more)
How Not to F*** Them Up
As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin? Want to know how best to be a working or stay-at-home mum? Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how... (more)
Key Concepts in Family Studies
This book's individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise key topics within the study of family lives. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful... (more)
Poisonous Parenting: Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children
How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of toxic parents affect their relationships into their... (more)
Self Within Marriage: The Foundation for Lasting Relationships
Self Within Marriage combines the theoretical orientations of object-relations theory, self psychology, and systems theory to illustrate and discuss a way of understanding and working with couples... (more)
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship
People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be compassionate, caring, smart, and funny, but they are also prone to explosive emotional outbursts and highly self-destructive acts. BPD... (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)
Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue
An acclaimed, influential work now available in paper for the first time, this bestselling book applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H.... (more)
Engaging Men in Couples Therapy
The premise of this book is that a crucial and overlooked reason for treatment failures in couples counseling may be the therapist's inability to respond to the needs and psychological issues... (more)
A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy
Ringstrom's relational approach to couples therapy is based on three themes: actualization of self-experience in the context of a committed, long-term intimate relationship; mutual recognition of... (more)
The Sibling Relationship: A Force for Growth and Conflict
This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence... (more)
We're No Fun Any More: Helping Couples Cultivate Joyful Marriages Through the Power of Play
If you are married and also work and/or have kids, it's common to lose the playful, sexy side of a relationship. Common - but not necessary. We're No Fun Any More shows couples how to regain the joy... (more)
Interdependent Minds: The Dynamics of Close Relationships
Why do some marriages grow stronger in the face of conflict or stress while others dissolve? In this book, two pioneering researchers present a groundbreaking theory of how mutually responsive... (more)
Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists
Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for... (more)
The Emotionally Focused Casebook: New Directions in Treating Couples
There is currently no single resource that compiles the various applications to the many clinical populations being served by EFT today. The Emotionally Focused Casebook fills that void as a... (more)
Case Studies in Couples Therapy: Theory-Based Approaches
This up-to-date, highly readable, theory-based, and application oriented book fills a crucial void in literature on couple therapy. Few books in the couple therapy market bridge the gap between... (more)
The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner: Second Edition
Now in a second edition, planner helps mental health practitioners reduce the amount of time spent on paperwork so more time can be spent with clients. The new edition covers an eclectic array of... (more)
Creating Change for Complex Children and Their Families: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work
The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique... (more)
Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques: second Edition
Many helping professionals have had little to no formal training working with families. This book is a clinical guide for any type of family work, from one-time contact with families in a medical... (more)