Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Contextual Therapy for Family Health: Clinical Applications
This book provides readers with a compelling case for the inclusion of contextual therapy in comprehensive healthcare settings by presenting its applications to individual and family health across... (more)
Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy: The Neuro Update Edition-An Integrative Approach for Exploring Desire and Intimacy
The revised edition of this award-winning book offers 33 Neuro Updates, which provide evidence-based data to help you recognize and explain the deeply transformational nature of the work. Expanding... (more)
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity: Helping Couples Understand, Recover From, and Avoid Future Affairs
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity offers an explanatory model and concrete techniques, enabling therapists and counselors to treat the core of a couple's relationship problems instead of merely... (more)
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders: A Guide for Supervision and Advanced Clinical Practice
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders unpacks some of the most common dilemmas providers face in implementation of Family Based Treatment (FBT) across the spectrum of restrictive... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns in Modern Love, Loss, and Longing
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a... (more)
Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships
We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. We long for a happily-ever-after but break-up after break-up... (more)
Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Third Edition: From the First Interview to Termination
Many tens of thousands of students and beginning clinicians have relied on this engaging, authoritative text--now revised and expanded--to hit the ground running in real-world clinical practice.... (more)
EMDR in Family Systems: An Integrated Approach to Healing Trauma
EMDR in Family Systems provides clinicians with a clear account of the EMDR process and a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to healing trauma through integrating EMDR with other therapeutic tools.... (more)
Emotion Focused Family Therapy with Children and Caregivers: A Trauma-Informed Approach
This book introduces Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) as an evidence-based intervention for children through the integration of parent trauma treatment and emotion-focused techniques. A team of... (more)
Brief Therapy With Couples and Families in Crisis
As the average length of therapy shortens, clinicians need a resource to lead them step-by-step through the goals and process of the opening sessions of brief therapy as well as clear treatment maps... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting looks at the role stepparents can play in the psychic development of children. Stepparenting requires enormous... (more)
Creating an Effective Couple Therapy Practice
Most clinicians think they are effective but have no true indicators that this is the case. Some may even be implementing evidence-based interventions yet have no true understanding of their results.... (more)
Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice, and Theory
Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice and Theory is a primer for students, professionals, and trainees to understand how family therapists conceptualize the problems people bring to... (more)
The Anatomy of a Couples Therapy Session: The 50 Minute Hour in Eight Stages
How does a couples' therapist actually run a 50-minute session? What needs to happen? What must happen? Managing this time and knowing how to guide a couple through what can be a rocky roller coaster... (more)
Family Therapy: A Constructive Framework
Family Therapy introduces practitioners to the principles of using a constructive and collaborative approach with families. The approach builds on a strengths-based philosophy and focuses on... (more)
Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-sex Couples and Families
What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by... (more)
Supporting Parents: Messages from Research
"Supporting Parents" explores the range of supports that parents find effective and how those supports might be improved or better mobilized. It draws from studies on the general population as well... (more)
Stepping Out: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Child with Special Needs
Parents and carers of children with conditions such as autism, Down's Syndrome or other forms of developmental delay can do much to help encourage their childs development. Stepping Out provides... (more)
The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: New Approaches to Marital Therapy (2nd Edition)
In this second edition to her book, Dr Joan Lachkar ventures to go beyond narcissistic and borderline couples to a melange of many other dyadic configurations. The book has been updated to... (more)
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting brings together experts who consider difficult questions that can arise during family proceedings, and respond with practical approaches for dealing with these... (more)
After adoption: Contact and relationships
Providing a comprehensive understanding of adoption issues and based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives, "After Adoption" considers the impact of direct... (more)
The Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother: Beyond Biological Mothering Attachments
Adoptive, foster and stepmothers, like biological mothers, find their lives completely changed by motherhood although they are not always granted the rights and privileges accorded to those who give... (more)
Rituals in Families & Family Therapy: Revised Edition
Family rituals are the events, big and small, that give family life texture and meaning. Daily rituals, holiday traditions, and rites of passage mark our time, create unforgettable memories, and... (more)
Short-Term Object Relations Couples Therapy: The Five-Step Model
Brief therapies have become popular - indeed a necessity - in today's managed care environment. Perhaps because it is one of the more complex psychoanalytical models, object relations theory for... (more)
Family Therapy as an Alternative to Medication: An Appraisal of Pharmland
Addresses the issue of the increased reliance on pharmaceuticals as a "quick fix" for treating mental illness. Psychiatric medications have achieved dominance because of political and marketing... (more)
The Counselling of Couples in Health Care Settings: A Handbook for Clinicians
This handbook is aimed at clinicians wanting to cousel couples in hospital, community or domestic settings. Its focus is on helping the reader to form an alliance with the couple to maintain or... (more)
Looking for Oliver: A Mother's Search for the Son she Gave Up for Adoption
Vividly recalling the stigma of her schoolgirl pregnancy and the pain of adoption, the story follows Emma's search for and reunion with Oliver and the consequences this has for her family life. This... (more)
Coming Home Again: A Family-of-Origin Consultation
Coming Home Again is a compelling case study of a single family that underwent family-of-origin therapy, presented by one of the earliest and best-known pioneers in the field. This book is unique in... (more)
Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict: A Behavioral-Family Systems Approach
Parent-adolescent discord is often handled from a unitary perspective, whether the focus is on enhancing parenting skills, resolving conflicts in family relationships, or working to improve the... (more)
