Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development
The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex... (more)
Family Support: Direction from Diversity
The contributors to this topical volume explore the role of family support in promoting the welfare of children and their families. They show how children can be supported in the development of their... (more)
Grandparenthood:
This guide aims to help men and women of all ages and backgrounds develop a more rewarding bond with their children's children. Dr. Westheimer shows grandparents how to take advantage of their... (more)
Family Matters: Interfaces between Child and Adult Mental Health
Focuses on research and clinical experiences which bridge the traditional gap between child and adult mental health. Rather than considering child and adult problems separately, this book addresses... (more)
Comparative Treatments for Relationship Dysfunction
Analysing a single case throughout, this text demonstrates a variety of interventions available for treating relationship problems. Treatment approaches are divided into psychoanalytic,... (more)
Sticking together: Experiential activities for family counselling
This text introduces an action-approach to family therapy, featuring games, challenges and guided activites. The activities act as metaphors for their problems enabling counselors to help the family... (more)
The Dynamics of Adoption
This text documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process - adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and the professionals. It reflects on the feelings detailed in the... (more)
Systemic Supervision: A Portable Guide for Supervision Training
Evaluates the practical and theoretical issues involved in implementing effective supervisory training within a family therapy practice. It examines the relationship between supervisor and trainee in... (more)
Letters to Children in Family Therapy: A narrative approach
Marner explains the theory behind writing to children in family therapy. He shows how using stories makes the problems of children more manageable for them. 109 pages. (more)
Fathers who fail: Shame and psychopathology in the family system
A look at the psychopathological problems that undermine the father's ability to be a father. The author bases his work on the dynamics of narcissistic vunerability, shame and humilation in families,... (more)
Treating borderline states in marriage: Dealing with oppositionalism, ruthless aggression, and severe resistance
The author of this book describes marriage as containing both the dream and the nightmare of the couple's way of being in relationship. He uses vignettes that transmit not only the verbal exchanges... (more)
Postpartum Depression and Child Development
This text is concerned with the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on parenting and child development. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother-infant... (more)
Parental Presence: Reclaiming a Leadership Role In Bringing Up Our Children
This book provides menatal health professionals of every discipline - and parents from every walk of life - with the keys to an integrative parenting approach that works. (more)
Supporting the families of children with autism:
This text demonstrates how autism affects parents, siblings and carers, examines the diagnostic process from the viewpoint of parents/primary carers, and develops strategies for supporting and... (more)
The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy
Research on why some couples divorce and others experience sustained bliss has led to a theory that successful couples have an abundance of good feelings towards one another and are able to deal with... (more)
Preventive approaches to couples:
This text offers an overview of approaches to preventing couple distress and marital dissolution. It is aimed at professionals, paraprofessionals and lay people involved in the development and... (more)
Family fragments?:
This text offers empirical material and theoretical analysis in order to try and give a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies. 224 pages. (more)
Absent Fathers?
Discussing the social implications of absentee fathers, this volume provides a text for undergraduates in social policy and should also be of interest to professionals concerned with family breakdown... (more)
Marching to a Different Tune: Diary About an ADHD Boy
This text is a day-by-day account of Stefan Fletcher, diagnosed with ADHD, whose unusual and difficult behaviour affects and disrupts family life. The author describes the struggles, embarrassments... (more)
Understanding the family:
An introductory textbook in family studies. The contributors demonstrate how "the family" is constituted in the public and private spheres, and outline the tensions that exist between the dominant... (more)
Violence in Intimate Relationships:
This book examines the roots of violence between spouses, identifies the pre-cursors to wife-beating and asks who are the victims of domestic abuse? It also explores the psychological characteristics... (more)
Handbook of psychotherapies with children and families:
Presents a comprehensive overview of the array of intervention approaches in the child mental health field. Its coverage reflects late-1990s trends of intervention with specific problems and... (more)
Back to the beanstalk: Enchantment and reality for couples
In this new edition of a work on the use of narrative in an experiential approach informed by Gestalt principles, Judith Brown, a Gestalt teacher and therapist, uses folktales in order to help... (more)
Intimacy in crisis
This book shows that a failure to understand the opposite gender's intimacy needs can contribute to relationship distress. It is divided into a practical guide for therapists and counsellors and a... (more)
Disarming the Past: How an Intimate Relationship Can Heal Old Wounds
Argues that the best way to heal the memories of a painful past is in a committed relationship. (more)
Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges
Designed to help families with adopted children to create the rites and traditions inherent in families with a natural shared history. 141 pages. (more)