Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition (Hardback)
The new edition of this popular, strong seller includes two new chapters and thorough updates. The book describes an evidence-based treatment approach for a perennial, urgent problem. It has little... (more)
Resilient Therapy: Working with Children and Families
Using detailed case material from a range of contexts, this book illustrates how resilient mechanisms work in complex situations, and how resilient therapy works in real-life situations. Whilst much... (more)
Sistering: Power and Change in Female Relationships
Sister stories are rare compared with images of celebrity sisters and 'sisterhood'. Based on 37 interviews, this fascinating book uncovers sisters' complex relationships. Readers will play 'mapping'... (more)
Psychosis in the Family: The Journey of a Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Mother
This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in... (more)
The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: For all Professionals Working with Families
This book begins with a readable practitioner's guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts. It moves on to give a number of detailed practice-based examples of the application of this theoretical... (more)
Love: Bondage or Liberation?: A Psycholological Exploration of the Meaning, Values and Dangers of Falling in Love
Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself. This book has a much broader aim. Deirdre Johnson, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapy trainer, uses her... (more)
Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if... (more)
Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties
A practical, supportive book for adoptive parents, carers, teachers and other professionals who live and work with families and children whose happiness and behaviours are affected by attention... (more)
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind
An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the... (more)
Attachment-Focused Family Therapy
Attachment theory has primarily been limited to the treatment of individuals. This work equips therapists with the knowledge and tools to apply ideas of attachment, intersubjectivity and affect... (more)
An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis: A Manual for Family Workers
"An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis" is a manual for using cognitive behavioural approach to working with families of people with severe mental illness. The authors, all experienced... (more)
Working with Parents and Infants: A Mind-Body Integration Approach
Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and... (more)
Thinking Psychologically About Children Who Are Looked After and Adopted: Space for Reflection
This innovative collection makes thinking psychologically about looked after and adopted children accessible and, in doing so, provides an insight into the world of these children. Informed by... (more)
Family Art Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice
Family Art Therapy is designed to help the reader incorporate clinical art therapy interventions techniques into family therapy practice. Expressive modalities are often used in work with families,... (more)
Emotional Safety: Viewing Couples Through the Lens of Affect
"Emotional Safety" is designed to help couple therapists identify and conceptualize the problems of their clients to provide solutions, focusing on the two central elements of emotion and attachment.... (more)
Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
This eminently practical guide presents an empirically supported approach for treating people with substance abuse problems and their spouses or domestic partners. Behavioral couples therapy (BCT)... (more)
Sibling Relationships Across the Life Span
Victor G. Cicirelli presents the first comprehensive resource to examine the course of the sibling relationship-from its beginning in childhood to the end of life-and the factors which influence it.... (more)
Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy: Adversity, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet lifes challenges in narrative and family therapy? Clients' experiences of hope and despair can be complex, reflecting... (more)
Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes
The "Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes" is the first book to combine these two powerful psychotherapy approaches into a comprehensive integrated treatment. This unique volume blends... (more)
New Paradigms for Treating Relationships
Provides a contemporary international perspective on the theory and practice of analytic couple and family therapy. This book summarizes theory, sets it in context, and illustrates the concepts with... (more)
Drug Addiction and Families
Drawing on a uniquely large research study comprising interviews with drug users and their relatives including children, grandparents, brothers and sisters, Marina Barnard examines the effects of... (more)
Assessing Families and Couples: A Four Step Model
A step-by-step guide to assessing couples and families, this text offers a clear delineation of the process of family therapy through richly illustrated case material, featuring clients from a... (more)
Innovations in the Reflecting Process
'The passion to continually be on the move to seek new understanding is a characteristic of the field of family therapy and systemic thinking over the last forty years. Many professionals have moved... (more)
Family and Multi-family Work with Psychosis
"Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis" provides a practical step-by-step guide for professionals treating psychosis using family work. The authors draw on over ten years of experience working... (more)
Therapeutic Family Mediation: Helping Families Resolve Conflict
Therapeutic Family Mediation is a practice-based book grounded in a therapeutic family mediation (TFM) model created by the authors. TFM, unlike other practice models for family mediation, devotes... (more)
Engaging Children in Family Therapy: Creative Approaches to Integrating Theory and Research in Clinical Practice
Counseling a child in the context of a family therapy session is a specific skill that has not received the attention that it deserves. This book, intended for both novice and experienced counselors... (more)
Mothering Through Domestic Violence
This work is for those working in the fields of family and child welfare and policy makers. Research into children and domestic violence in recent years has emphasized the importance of giving... (more)
They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life
Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness... (more)
Families That Flourish: Facilitating Resilience in Clinical Practice
"Families that Flourish" describes the characteristics of families that function successfully, even when faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Using a therapeutic perspective that integrates... (more)