Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
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)
Paradox and the family system
Provides therapists with an understanding of the principles, applications and implications of paradoxical therapy, the rationale for the use of paradox in family therapy and the therapist's role in... (more)
Treating the adolescent in family therapy: A developmental and narrative approach
Teenagers exploring their identities fare best when they stay connected with family, the author has learned. Accordingly, she endorses family therapy as the appropriate forum for treating them. In... (more)
Culturally competent family therapy: A general model
pgs 296.DA guide to a therapy which incorporates the cultural issues contributing to the problems which families of any sociocultural background may face. It covers difficulties such as... (more)
Therapy of the difficult divorce: managing crises, reorientating warring couples, working with the children and expediting court processes:
A study of the manifestations of difficult divorce. It argues that the children's well-being must be a priority, and that therapy must deal with the realities of divorce. It focuses on lapses in... (more)
The Adoption Experience: Families Who Give Children a Second Chance
A book containing real life stories which take the reader through every stage of the adoption process. It aims to inform and enlighten professionals, adopters and potential adopters and all those who... (more)
The Postdivorce family: Children, parenting, and society
This book focuses on the consequences of divorce for children, and examines the parents' responsibilities after divorce. It concludes with a section that explores the effects of a high divorce rate... (more)
Violence in homes and communities: prevention, intervention, and treatment
This books shows why there has been an increase in domestic, workplace, and community violence, and what can be done to prevent it. Part of the Issues in Children's and Families' Lives series. 326... (more)
Men are from earth, women are from Earth: A guide to winning cooperation from your spouse
Men and women are more alike than they are different. They share common hopes and fears, the capacity to engage in dysfunctional behaviour and the ability to change if they choose. The book seeks to... (more)
In Search of Good Form: Gestalt Therapy with Couples and Families
The author of this work emphasizes seeing and being with as keys to a phenomenological approach in which therapist and patient co-create and mutually articulate their own experiences and meanings. He... (more)
Brothers and Sisters: Developmental, Dynamic, and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship
Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings, which casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their... (more)
Patterns of Adoption
This text provides coverage of the major research and theoretical perspectives on adoption, reviewing the work of several disciplines within psychology, sociology and social work. With the change in... (more)
Children in families: Research and policy
This work argues that children's needs have often been neglected in the social sciences, especially in the areas of law, social policy and sociology. It presents empirical research on children in... (more)
Explorations in family nursing:
This volume looks at how nurses can adopt a more collaborative approach to working with families to both facilitate their task as carers and promote the health and well-being of the whole family. 248... (more)
Halving it all: how equally shared parenting works
New in paperback. The best way to have it all-both a full family life and a career-is to halve it all. Deutsch brings good news in the wake of inequality which has blighted women whose work-load is... (more)
Joining new families: A study of adoption and fostering in middle childhood
This book offers a comprehensive overview of procedures regarding adoption and permanent family placements. It also focuses on the first year of adoption to provide information on the... (more)
The healing journey for couples: Journal of mutual discovery
Designed to develop and improve a relationship, this is one of first three books in the "Healing Journey" series. It features 45 guided journal entries to help couples increase communication, get in... (more)
Single session family staging: Breaking family spells
This book introduces a radically new way of revealing the underlying reality of a person's emotional world. The method described focuses solely on the systemic aspects of an individual's existence... (more)
Being married, doing gender: A critical analysis of gender relationships in marriage
In this psychological study of women in heterosexual relationships, the author examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles. The text places case study material in the... (more)
Working with Children and Parents Through Separation and Divorce
This text combines research, clinical and practical approaches to working with children and parents going through stressful changes linked to separation or divorce. A focused approach to divorce... (more)
Family transformation through divorce and remarriage: A systemic approach
Looks at the complete divorce-remarriage-stepfamily cycle in the context of demographic data, the legal process and the systemic theoretical framework. (more)