Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends
As practitioners increasingly treat culturally diverse populations, it is essential that they be exposed to the global practice of family therapy and the unique values, structure, and circumstances... (more)
Working Systemically with Families: Formulation, Intervention and Evaluation
Systemic theory offers a valuable framework for integrating the diverse ideas found throughout the mental health arena in both theory and clinical practice. With this accessible book, the authors... (more)
Self in Relationships: Perspectives on Family Therapy from Developmental Psychology
Inspired by Daniel Stern's work on self-development, the authors suggest that by combining systemic therapy with a psychoanalytical aspect, family therapy can reach new depths. They argue that this... (more)
Family Therapy Techniques: Integrating and Tailoring Treatment
Family Therapy Techniques briefly reviews the basic theories of marriage and family therapy. It then goes into treatment models designed to facilitate the tailoring of therapy to specific populations... (more)
Building Intimate Relationships: Bridging Treatment, Education, and Enrichment Through the PAIRS Program
The PAIRS course acts as a kind of bridge between marriage education and therapy, working both with couples in healthy relationships hoping to improve intimacy and with distressed couples trying to... (more)
Creating Happy Relationships: A Guide to Partner Skills
"Dr. Nelson-Jones tracks through the various components of the love-making cycle and provides useful simple constructive activities that couples can use to enhance their sexual as well as their... (more)
Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care
Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is... (more)
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)
The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish. However, many changes have occurred in society which have changed the traditional... (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)