Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
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)
Losing Clive to Younger Onset Dementia: One Family's Story
Clive Beaumont was diagnosed with Younger Onset Dementia at age 45, when his children were aged just 3 and 4. He had become less and less able to do his job properly and had been made redundant from... (more)
Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However,... (more)
I Am Interrupting This Program: ...and Other Writings
In her latest book, Mary Goulding discusses many relevant subjects, from practical applications of Redecision Therapy to atheism in America, the promulgation of ignorance about Cuba (and other... (more)
In Her Own Words... Virginia Satir
Satir's broadly encompassing perspective is communicated in this new book, "In Her Own Words", through a series of previously published and never-before-published short works she produced between... (more)
The Imprinters: Surviving the Unlived Life of Our Parents
The Imprinters is the story of a very personal journey. The book evolved out of an intensive year's work near Florence, Italy with a group of dedicated persons willing to follow Dr. Walkenstein into... (more)
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Heralded by the "New York Times" and "Time" magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment... (more)
The 3-Point Therapist
An ambitious trainee therapist, determined to make her mark in the therapy world, seeks supervision and guidance. In her meetings with the 3-Point Therapist she gains much more than she had bargained... (more)
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications in a Range of Clinical Settings
Professional interest in the clinical applications of attachment theory continues to grow and evolve, and at the same time narrative approaches are also gaining ground. This book explores how... (more)
Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships
Address questions such as how do people play at love in cyberspace? How are these relationships different and similar to the way individuals initiate, develop and maintain offline relationships? This... (more)
Coping with Breast Cancer: Workbook for Couples
As a couple coping with early stage breast cancer, it is important that you face the stresses and challenges together. To support each other during this difficult time, you and your partner may... (more)
Coping with Breast Cancer: A Couples-focused Group Intervention: Therapist Guide
Early stage breast cancer can be stressful and upsetting for both the woman dealing with the disease and her partner. This illness can also place a strain on a couples relationship. However, couples... (more)