Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide
The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult - but also one of the most common - factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical,... (more)
Adolescence, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing A Threat of Degeneration
Why does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? This book outlines a critical view of "teenage pregnancy" and abortion, arguing that the... (more)
Marrying Well: The Clinician's Guide to Premarital Counseling
Therapists who do not specialise in premarital counselling are often called on to provide this therapy or they may wish to expand into this field. In this title, two therapists with decades of... (more)
Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy
Neuroscience and couples therapy come together to help couples break patterns of bad behavior. What happens between partners that makes love turn to war? How can couples therapists help de-escalate... (more)
Couple Counselling: A Practical Guide
This practical book outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, the author provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through... (more)
Family Therapy
There are many different types of family therapy, but at the heart of each is systems theory, a model that arose from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, and cybernetics. The main clinical... (more)
The Vibrant Family: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals
Family life! We tackle it head-on with great enthusiasm and lots of hopes and dreams that our family will be filled with love, closeness, well-being and development.
However, for many of us family... (more)
The Vibrant Relationship: A Handbook for Couples and Therapists
Creating and sustaining a vibrant relationship is one of the most difficult challenges we come across in our lives. But when we do succeed, it is the source of a truly deep and lasting happiness. To... (more)
How to Talk with Family Caregivers About Cancer
Cancer affects not only patients but their loved ones as well. This book responds to families questions and fears with compassion, guiding professionals on counselling caregivers and families, from... (more)
How to Talk to Families About Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
When a young person suffers from an anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, the entire family supporting that young person suffers, too.
This is a practical and accessible... (more)
Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems
Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems - what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so. The modern family is inundated with information and no... (more)
The Embedded Self: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy: Second Edition
First published in 1996, The Embedded Self was lauded as "a brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in... (more)
The Adolescent in Family Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Relationships: Second Edition
Offers a comprehensive framework for treating adolescent problems in the family context. "This valuable second edition is an essential text for anyone working with adolescents. Students in family... (more)
Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy: The Overlooked Foundation for Effective Practice
Grounded in theory, research, and extensive clinical experience, this pragmatic book addresses critical questions of how change occurs in couple and family therapy and how to help clients achieve... (more)
Common Dilemmas in Couples Therapy
This book addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices, problems that leave therapists exhausted, drained, challenged, alive, racing, and on edge. (more)
Counseling Fathers
This book speaks to the variety of fathers and the issues that they face. Men do not often enter into counseling or therapy because they are having difficulties with being a father, but many of the... (more)
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Third Edition
New in paperback. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. The... (more)
Family-based Treatment for Young Children With OCD: Workbook
Young children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often require professional help to overcome their symptoms. This workbook corresponds to a treatment program specifically designed for children... (more)
The Marriage Checkup: A Scientific Program for Sustaining and Strengthening Marital Health
The Marriage Checkup is designed to help couples assess the strengths and weaknesses of their relationship and to develop strategies for strengthening its health. Like physical health, the health of... (more)
A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age
Every day the newspapers lament the problems facing our children - broken homes, pressures to eat and drink, the stress of exams. The same issues are discussed in every pub and at every dinner party.... (more)
When Someone You Love is Bipolar: Help and Support for You and Your Partner
What happens when in sickness and in health meets the turbulent challenges of bipolar disorder? In this wise, candid, and compassionate book written expressly for the spouse or partner, Dr Cynthia... (more)
Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction
Think all sex should be earth shattering? The quality of most couple sex doesn't measure up to the much distorted image of the perfect romantic love/passionate sex encounter portrayed in popular... (more)
Parenting with Reason: Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas
Parenting with Reason cuts through the masses of often confusing and contradictory advice found in parenting self-help books to provide a rich common-sense manual on evidence-based parenting.... (more)
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
"Passionate Marriage" is recognized as the pioneering book on intimate human relationships. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition explores the ways in which passion can be kept alive... (more)
Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence
In this book, Gregory Elliott explores the effects of mattering to ones family on adolescent behavior. He presents evidence that those who feel that they matter to their families are much less likely... (more)
A Casebook of Family Interventions for Psychosis
This is a practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions. The book... (more)
Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children
Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzz words in therapy circles, but many of these ideas - so integral to successful therapeutic work with children and adolescents - have yet... (more)
Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
An important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. It ought to be read by every sensible individual interested in regaining a sane viewpoint that... (more)
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells
For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and... (more)
Fostering a Child's Recovery: Family Placement for Traumatized Children
The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported... (more)