Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal (2024 Individual Subscription)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology , which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Working with Aging Families: Therapeutic Solutions for Caregivers, Spouses, and Adult Children
As the average lifespan increases, so does the number of living generations, a recipe for some potentially complex family issues. This book offers therapeutic strategies to navigate the unique... (more)
Talking to Families About Mental Illness: What Clinicians Need to Know
Despite the prevalence of mental illness, therapists and family members often struggle with how to communicate effectively and compassionately with sufferers. This book teaches practitioners how to... (more)
What Do You Want from Me?: Learning to Get Along with In-Laws
We believe that marriage is a bond between two individuals. But the in-laws acquired with marriage affect our quality of life-our marriage, family, personal comfort and long-term well-being - for... (more)
Multi-Family Therapy: Concepts and Techniques
Multi-Family Therapy (MFT) involves the bringing together of different families in a therapeutic context in order to work jointly to overcome each of their specific and very individual problems. This... (more)
Working With Relationship Triangles: The One-Two-Three Of Psychotherapy
This groundbreaking book provides clinicians with a hands-on guide to working with many different kinds of relationship triangles in therapy with families, couples, and individuals. (more)
Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy
Depicting the process of therapy, this casebook presents illustrations of treatment based on the most important couple therapy models. Vividly depicting the process of therapy, this instructive... (more)
Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory
Bringing Systems Thinking to Life presents the breadth of applications of Bowen family systems therapy in a single volume. Presenting creative and innovative appications of Bowen theory, the book... (more)
Picking Up the Pieces After Domestic Violence: A Practical Resource for Supporting Parenting Skills
How does domestic violence affect children and parents, and their relationships with each other? How can a parent who has been abused regain authority over the children? Can a parent who has scared a... (more)
Family Experiences of Bipolar Disorder: The Ups, the Downs and the Bits in Between
The book features important facts and figures related to bipolar which are contributed by leading experts. This moving and insightful book will provide an invaluable source of guidance, advice and... (more)
Divorce and the Special Needs Child: A Guide for Parents
This book takes a clear and comprehensive look at every aspect of the legal divorce process, addressing all of the legal issues that divorcing parents of children with special needs face. The author... (more)
Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience
Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to... (more)
Siblings: The Autism Spectrum Through Our Eyes
Growing up with a sibling on the autistic spectrum can be difficult, and the needs of a child with autism often overwhelm a family, leaving neurotypical children feeling overshadowed. This book... (more)
Rebuilding Lives After Domestic Violence: Understanding Long-term Outcomes
Examines in-depth the long-term outcomes for women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse, based on interviews conducted over seven years. Through these interviews the author reveals the... (more)
Happy Families: A Parents' Guide to the Non-violent Resistance Approach
Parenting a child with behavioral problems can be exhausting, and finding a way to familial harmony may at times seem like an impossible task. Where do you even begin? Is there a way to break... (more)
Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment: How to Interpret Childrens Needs
The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers... (more)
Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
Studies have proven that involving the family in psychiatric care is efficacious, and yet many clinicians lack the specific knowledge and skills to do this successfully. The Clinical Manual of... (more)
Enhancing Resilience in Survivors of Family Violence
This book discusses resilience in survivors of childhood incest, children of battered women, and individuals formerly in violent domestic relationships. According to resiliency theory, resilient... (more)
The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research
This unique volume attests to the coming of age of research on family violence. Leading authorities in this interdisciplinary area offer useful insights into such concerns as wife-battering, child... (more)
Fostering Now: Messages from Research
What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? What are the most important... (more)
Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide
The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face... (more)
Overcoming Anger in Your Relationship: How to Break the Cycle of Arguments, Put-Downs, and Stony Silences
From anger expert Dr Robert Nay - who has helped thousands of individuals and couples learn new ways of resolving conflicts - this straight-talking book provides clear-cut, practical techniques for... (more)
My Kid is Back: Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa
My Kid is Back explains how family-based treatment can greatly reduce the severity of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents, allowing the sufferer to return to normal eating patterns, and... (more)
Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective
From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable... (more)
Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Treatment Model for Working with Troubled Adolescents
Clinically relevant, theoretically sound, and scientifically based, Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice contains systematic discussions of topics and theoretical perspectives, as well as... (more)
Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Clinical Treatment Model: Second Edition
This Second Edition is an up-to-date model based on more than twenty years of work and research with outpatient couples groups. In the text, therapists will find everything they need to conceptualize... (more)
Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach: Second Edition
Family-focused psychoeducational treatment (FFT) is among a very small number of psychosocial treatments that have been found to be effective in multiple studies to improve the course of bipolar... (more)
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder... (more)
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention: Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Treatment of abuse and neglect needs to be family-focused in order to reduce troubling symptoms, address family risk and relapse potential, treat cross-generational patterns, and remediate attachment... (more)
Jay Haley Revisited
Jay Haley Revisited brings together some of the influential professionals in the field of therapy to introduce, analyze, and put into context some of the significant papers Jay Haley produced, both... (more)