Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference
Provides in-depth accounts of the everyday practice of postmodern collaborative therapy, vibrantly illustrating how dialogic conversation can transform lives, relationships, and entire communities.... (more)
In the Name of Love: Romantic Ideology and Its Victims
We yearn to experience the idealized love depicted in so many novels, movies, poems, and popular songs. Ironically, it is the idealization of love that arms it with its destructive power. Popular... (more)
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and their Families
See catalogue number 27036 for the paperback edition. Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this... (more)
Child Anxiety Disorders: A Family-Based Treatment Manual for Practitioners
Presenting a clinically proven treatment protocol based on a collaborative, family-based approach, this book incorporates family therapy strategies and CBT techniques in a session-by-session format... (more)
The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective
Presenting a wide range of practical interventions (including art therapy, video therapy, and play therapy), Carole Gammer provides a comprehensive set of tools to use with children who are part of a... (more)
The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What
Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions leading to anguish and confusion in the playground, in the home and in the boardroom. A woman's experience negotiating her... (more)
Divorced, Without Children: Solution Focused Therapy with Women at Midlife
This book explores the experience, meaning, and impact of divorce at mid-life for women without children, and provides insights into the unique stressors and issues confronting these individuals so... (more)
Understanding Looked After Children: An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care
An accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children. The authors provide foster carers... (more)
Sorrow's Profiles: Death, Grief, and Crisis in the Family
'Dr Richard Alapack, sensitively and with deep understanding, orchestrates a survivor's journey through the complex country of sorrow. Alapack challenges and transcends the received scientific view... (more)
Promoting Positive Parenting: An Attachment-Based Intervention
Illuminates the successful implementations of one of the few evidence-based parenting intervention programs. More than 20 years ago the editors began experimenting with videotaping parental behavior... (more)
Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to... (more)
Couple Therapy: The Self in the Relationship
This book presents students and experienced practitioners alike with an accessible guide on the complex dynamics of the couple relationship. Combining the theoretical grounding of various... (more)
What Do Mothers Want?: Developmental Perspectives, Clinical Challenges
What do mothers want and need from their parenting partners, their extended families, their friends, colleagues, and communities? And what can mental health professionals do to help them meet their... (more)
The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships
'Our inspiration for writing this book springs from a deep feeling for people and a grave concern that without a proper understanding of the reasons for their inhumanity in relation to one another... (more)
Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision
In this volume, as the title indicates, the focus is on understanding and elaborating what might be said to be "going on" in supervision as well as further exploring what is distinctive about... (more)
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View is an invitation to the world of literature, drawing us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays... (more)
Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
'This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured... (more)
Being with Older People: A Systemic Approach
The authors of this volume take as their starting point "striking moments" in their practice with older people, their families and other practitioners. They integrate these with current systemic... (more)
Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption... (more)
Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy
Effective techniques for fashioning pleasurable and satisfying sex lives. Here, Shelley K. Green and Douglas Flemons gather a wonderful array of approaches to sex therapy, each presented by a... (more)
Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Family-Based, Attachment-Focused Therapy
Prevailing taboos about sex and the misconception that sexually inappropriate touching, language, and other actions by children are always signs of sexual abuse lead families to hide problems.... (more)
The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents
This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers... (more)
The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families
'This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed... (more)
Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven. However, it is not. People in family relations are more likely to be threatened, hit, kicked, raped or... (more)
Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families: Second Edition
Critically examining many professional assumptions about "difficult" families, the book outlines concepts and clinical practices that support the development of a respectful, constructive, and... (more)
African American Family Life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity
Recognizing the diversity of contemporary African-American families, experts present the latest knowledge on such topics as family formation, gender roles, child rearing, care of the elderly, and... (more)
Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling either in school or at home. It explains the social and... (more)
The Dialogical Therapist: Dialogue in Systemic Practice
Several good books exist about systemic understanding in therapy and a few about dialogic understanding. However, none try to bridge the gap between these two world views, which have some... (more)
Working with Families of the Poor: Second Edition
Now in a substantially revised second edition, this widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic... (more)
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Third Edition (Hardback)
See catalogue number 28887 for the paperback edition. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability... (more)