Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
For Better or for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered
Exploring divorce as a process, this study identifies marriages that predispose a couple to divorce and pinpoints "windows of change" which fashion divorce into an opportunity. The study concludes... (more)
Daughtering and Mothering
Challenging accepted psychoanalytic views, this book focusses on daughtering as an active process to explore previously unexamined aspects of this central and fundamental relationship (more)
Family sexual abuse: Frontline research and evaluation
This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contributions by both practitioners and researchers, it covers such issues as sibling incest; the background... (more)
Rescripting Family Experiences: The Therapeutic Influence of John Byng-Hall
John Byng-Hall is a distinguished, pioneering British family therapist, whose publications and presentations have established him internationally. This text is a tribute from six psychotherapists... (more)
Couples on the Fault Line: New Directions for the Therapist
This cutting-edge book brings together prominent marital and family therapists to explore the new challenges and opportunities for growth facing diverse couples and the clinicians who work with them.... (more)
Erectile Dysfunction: Integrating Couple Therapy, Sex Therapy, and Medical Treatment
Viagra and other new treatments may raise hopes for a revitalised sex life, but they may uncover other sexual dysfunctions. This book presents a systematic method for evaluating erectile dysfunction,... (more)
Family Play Therapy
The principles of play therapy and family therapy are being combined into a approach, termed "Family Play Therapy". The use of play activities facilitates the communication and involvement of the... (more)
Family-Oriented Primary Care: A Manual for Medical Providers: Second Edition
The first edition of Family-Oriented Primary Care helped bring the family approach to health care into the medical mainstream. This new edition, like the first, will provide the health care... (more)
Family-of-origin therapy: An intergenerational approach
Considers the "family-of-origin" approach to the psychiatric counselling of adults in marital, family and individual therapy. The text discusses theoretical and clinical implications and provides... (more)
Exploring the Unsaid: Creativity, Risks and Dilemmas in Working Cross-Culturally
The editors and contributing authors of this volume have taken a truly pioneering and courageously challenging look at the state of cross-cultural theory and practice. In confronting directly and... (more)
Perspectives on Supervision
This reader-friendly and stimulating volume, indispensable to anyone interested in supervision from a systemic perspective, emerged from a conference organised jointly by the Institute of Family... (more)
Family Therapy: An Intimate History
This is a personal history of family therapy through the eyes of one of its most accomplished practitioners. The book explores how family therapy has evolved and thrived since 1950. (more)
Black, white or mixed race?: Race and racism in the lives of young people of mixed parentage
The number of people in racially mixed relationships is steadily growing. Barbara Tizard and Ann Phoenix explore the question of mixed-race identity through interviews with young people. (more)
Sex and Your Teenager: A Parent's Guide
Any discussion about sex between parents and their teenage kids can be extremely tricky and embarrassing for both parties. This book offers parents tips on how to broach the subject and gives advice... (more)
Multiple Family Therapy: The Marlborough Model and Its Wider Applications
If a troubled family contains the resources to solve its own problems, then why not bring such families together, to share their experiences and support each other?
This is the approach of the... (more)
Culture and System in Family Therapy
Starting with the MacPherson Report and its pronouncements on racism in Britain and in particular 'institutionalised racism', Dr Krause focuses in this important book on the practice of family... (more)
Love and intimate relationships: Journeys of the heart
Drawing on recent research ranging from social psychology to biology and anthropology, combined with experiences of therapists and other observers of human behaviour, this volume attempts to explain... (more)
Stop Arguing, Start Talking: The 10 Point Plan for Couples in Conflict: The Relate Guide
For some people, an argument with a loved one is a catastrophe, a sign that a relationship must surely be over, for others a heated discussion is a way of letting off steam, a way of ensuring that... (more)
