Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Parenting: What really counts?
The author considers whether it is necessary to have two parents and explores the psychological processes that underlie optimal development for children, particularly the quality of the child's... (more)
The therapist's use of self in family therapy: Countertransference in the therapist-family system
Therapists' effective use of self depends on their awareness of their countertransference. This book encourages clinicians who work with families to avail themselves of their unavoidable emotional... (more)
Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide for Professionals
This book offers an insight into the world of autistic children, and the problems that they and their families face. It should provide support and encouragement for families of children with autism,... (more)
Male Infertility - Men Talking
Explores the past and present medical management of male infertility and allows men to tell their own stories of what it feels like to be infertile. (more)
Adolescents after divorce:
This work questions why some children thrive and others falter when their parents are divorced. It follows children from 1100 divorcing families, and from a range of different backgrounds, to... (more)
Contemporary parenting: Challenges and issues
This edited volume addresses one of the central issues of family studies - parenting. Terry Arendell uses the social constructionist and the feminist lens to examine current controversies and issues... (more)
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)