Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises
Does your young daughter talk endlessly about invisible friends, dragons in the basement, and monsters in the closet? Is your teenager about to start high school or being victimized by bullies? Is... (more)
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change
BPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing... (more)
Addictive States of Mind
'Perversion is taken to mean different things within psychoanalytic discourse. In this book the authors view perversions, not in terms of specific behaviours, but as a type of blueprint for object... (more)
Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy
This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from... (more)
Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook
A practical workbook companion to Attachment-Focused Family Therapy (catalogue number 25237), the best-selling text that brought attachment into the realm of family therapy.
Daniel A. Hughes, a... (more)
How to Talk with Families About Genetics and Psychiatric Illness
As we learn more about how our biology and genes can play into the development of a mental health disorder, patients and their families are increasingly seeking answers to tough questions about... (more)
Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations
Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.
Michael White's untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a... (more)
The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with Your Family
This notable work poignantly explains how a tool of family historygathering the genogram, or a basic family treecan help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Here,... (more)
The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
An eminent therapist explains what makes couples compatible and how to sustain a happy marriage.
For the past thirty-five years, John Gottman's research has been internationally recognized for its... (more)
Systems-Centered Therapy: Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups
Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to clinical practice. Developed by Yvonne Agazarian, SCT introduces a theory and set of methods that put systems ideas into practice. The... (more)
Systems Theory in Action: Applications to Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy
Written in everyday language, this comprehensive book presents the core principles of systems theory through the lens of individual, couple, and family therapy. Demonstrating how a systemic framework... (more)