Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Growing up in step-families
The growth of step-families has been one of the most dramatic changes in British family life in recent decades. Currently, more than one in twelve children live in a step-family. Using clinical... (more)
Bridging the Gap: A Training Module in Personal and Professional Development
This book opens a very important debate for the family therapy field. At a time of treatment rationing and standard setting, it aptly draws our attention to an issue of increasing importance:... (more)
Parallel Psychotherapy With Children and Parents
This text proposes a model for the parallel treatment of severely disturbed children and their mothers. This method mandates adjacent therapy by separate practitioners, with a common supervisor, who... (more)
Rethinking Marriage: Public and Private Perspectives
'This book brings together a group of specialists who attempt to describe the process of interaction between the inner and personal and the outer and social. They illustrate what is happening to... (more)
The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy: Second Edition
As the study of the family has expanded, the need for an up-to-date volume that brings together and defines major salient words, phrases and concepts has similarly grown. The updated edition of this... (more)
The Family Interpreted
Demonstrates how family therapists unwittingly confirm the patriarchal power structure by trivialising marital violence, implicating mothers, and exonerating fathers in their explanations of... (more)
Working with families of children with special needs: Partnership and practice
The importance of a partnership between professionals and the parents of children with special needs is now well established in legislation and professional circles. However there has been an... (more)
A Systemic Approach to Consultation
A Systemic Approach to Consultation discusses the application of systemic thinking to work within organizations. The authors draw on their experiences of consulting with teams, departments and whole... (more)
Resource Focused Therapy
For some time the family therapy field has been moving away from a problem-based approach to work with clients. Ideas such as "creating a new family story", focusing on strengths and solutions, and... (more)
Exchanging Voices: A Collaborative Approach to Family Therapy
For this book, Lynn Hoffman has not only compiled her writing for the last ten years, but she has written her own commentary about the personal and intellectual journey which led her from one paper... (more)
Co-Constructing Therapeutic Conversations: A Consultation of Restraint
This book illustrates the unique systemic approach of the Ingers who are well-known teachers and co-founders of the Family Studies Institute in Portland, Oregon. Their work combines elements of the... (more)
Teaching Family Therapy
The teaching of family therapy has been the subject of serious scrutiny since the onset of training and accreditation many years ago, yet there are relatively few attempts to apply what we know about... (more)
Research Methods in Family Therapy: Second Edition
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this widely adopted text and professional reference reflects significant recent changes in the landscape of family therapy research. Leading... (more)
Fathers, Families and the Outside World
This is the second monograph to be published under the auspices of Winnicott Studies, the Squiggle Foundation's renowned series of publications on contemporary applications of Winnicott's thought.... (more)
Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families
This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The... (more)
Clinical Handbook of Marriage and Couples Interventions
This handbook provides a comprehensive, analytic overview of research on marriage and marital interventions which is relevant to clinicians working with psychological disorders, as well as those who... (more)
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children
This book suggests how to work with emotional and behavioural problems in orphaned children, using the following approaches: distinguishing between old and new parents; adjusting the child to the... (more)
Brief Therapy with Couples: An Integrative Approach
Therapists and counsellors in training and practice will find in this book a new, accessible and powerful approach to short-term therapy with couples. Much problem behaviour in relationships can be... (more)
Working with parents: establishing the essential alliance in child psychotherapy
Many child therapists face problems with their patients' parents: some are threatened by change in their child and remove him or her from treatment, others do not participate or co-operate. In this... (more)
Action modality couples therapy: using psychodramatic techniques in helping troubled relationships
This approach to therapy describes psychodramatic techniques that have been used successfully in group therapy, and shows how to apply them to helping troubled relationships. Included with clinical... (more)
Multiple Voices: Narrative in Systemic Family Psychotherapy
Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series, this book focuses on narrative and stories in Family Systems Therapy - particularly on how stories develop within the domain of a therapist's own theoretical,... (more)