Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Making Relationships Work - How to Love Others and Yourself:
To love others, you must love yourself first. Lack of self-worth is often at the root of unsatisfactory relationships. This book aims to help people improve their relationships by improving their... (more)
Family Support as Reflective Practice
Family support is an increasingly important strategic approach to welfare services for children and families. This resource for all professionals engaged covers core issues in family support. These... (more)
The Transition to Adulthood and Family Relations: An Intergenerational Perspective
The authors present a clear and in-depth analysis of the theoretical framework surrounding the transition into adulthood both from a generational point of view and a relationship-centred perspective.... (more)
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook
The "Workbook" which will accompany the revised second edition of "The Practice of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy" (catalogue number 20482), is designed to facilitate the learning and... (more)
Children in Therapy: Using the Family as a Resource
Although most mental health professionals acknowledge the value of involving families in children's therapy, many are not trained to work with families and children together. The difficulty they face... (more)
Treating Parent-Infant Relationship Problems: Strategies for Intervention
Within a developmental framework, this book guides the clinician to understand the different types of problems that parents have with infants and to determine how a given family might best be served.... (more)
Helping the Noncompliant Child: Family-Based Treatment for Oppositional Behavior
This popular treatment manual presents an empirically validated program for teaching parents to manage noncompliance in 3 to 8 year-olds. Practitioners are provided with step-by-step guidelines for... (more)
Intellectual Disabilities: A Systemic Approach
The application of systemic ideas and principles in working with people with intellectual disabilities, their families and their service systems, has grown over the last decade in the UK. This book,... (more)
Frozen Dreams: Psychodynamic Dimensions of Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
Written for a large audience of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, researchers, nurses, physicians, and general readers, Frozen Dreams is a fascinating introduction to the human face of... (more)
In Search of Better Angels: Stories of Disability in the Human Family
In his book, In Search of Better Angels: Stories of Disability in the Human Family, author J David Smith appeals to the "better angels" of our character in a unique style of writing uncommon in... (more)
Domestic Violence: Guidelines for Research-Informed Practice
This title describes developed intervention programmes which have been shown to be effective for reducing the incidence, severity or impact of domestic violence in particular populations. The book... (more)
Family Solutions for Youth at Risk: Applications to Juvenile Delinquency, Truancy, and Behavior Problems
Because it is impossible to understand the circumstances surrounding an individual youth's behaviour without understanding his or her family environment, Family Solutions for Youth at Risk advocates... (more)
Family Art Psychotherapy - A Clinical Guide and Casebook
An integrated guide to the entire range of clinical art therapy. The book aims to cover every age range in a variety of settings, from schools and outpatient clinics to psychiatric hospitals and... (more)
The Integrative Family Therapy Supervisor: A Primer
Designed to replace the "standard" treatise, this text is more reader-friendly, integrative in orientation, practical and pragmatic, and full of exercises for the skills necessary for the AAMFT... (more)
The Couple Is Telling You What You Need to Know: Couple Directed Therapy in a Multicultural Context
Drawing on real-life case examples, the authors expand the practice of traditional couple and family systems theory to fit the reality of today's clients. (more)
Relationship Counselling: Sons and Their Mothers: A Person-Centred Dialogue
Young men trying to resolve traumatic experiences and relationship issues with their mothers is not an area that has attracted a great deal of attention, and yet it is not uncommon. Peter is 28,... (more)
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work
Basing their work on the idea that psychoanalytic therapy and technique require more rather than less from the therapist, the Novicks explore the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent... (more)
Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families
This enriching book describes the value of learning about the development of the human personality through the experience of observing a baby in the context of the family. It is distinctive in the... (more)
An Introduction to Systemic Therapy with Individuals: A Social Constructionist Approach
In recent years, the benefits and applications of systemic therapy with individuals, in addition to its more traditional practice with families, has been increasingly recognized. This important new... (more)
Guide to Mental Health for Families and Carers of People with Intellectual Disabilities
A introduction for carers to mental health problems, this guide outlines a range of signs and symptoms of mental health problems that can affect people with intellectual disabilities. The guide... (more)
The Marriage Clinic Casebook
Presents cases and clinical developments from the Gottman Institute. (more)
All Our Families:
This text challenges the conventional wisdom that American families are disintegrating. It argues that comparing modern families to an imagined typical family of the past is dishonest and misleading.... (more)
Treating Families & Children:
Crenshaw proposes a new integration of many of the existing theories and practices of family and child counselling with those of the welfare, child protection, and social services programs. (more)
Repairing Intimacy: An Object Relations Approach to Couples Therapy
This work uses object relations theory in looking at the psychotherapy of the marital relationship. Object relations theory provides an explanation of how the internal and external worlds are linked... (more)
Getting It Right the First Time: Creating a Healthy Marriage
Barry and Emily McCarthy draw on 35 years of marriage, extensive clinical experience, and illustrative examples to provide younger generations with an informative guide to the vital first years of... (more)