Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Hypoactive Sexual Desire: Integrating Sex and Couple Therapy
Over 50% of couples presenting for treatment will complain of insufficient sexual desire in one or both partners. Thus, all clinicians are very likely to encounter HSD in both individual and couple... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Integrating Theory with Practice
Here, in one brief volume, are the answers to many questions on couple therapy. This will be a lifesaver for faily therapy students and beginning therapists. In a straightforward manner, the authors... (more)
Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy
This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided... (more)
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. "New Families, Old Scripts" is an... (more)
Mothers who kill their children:
Mothers Who Kill Their Children draws on extensive research to identify clear patterns among the cases of women who kill their children, shedding light on why some women commit these acts. (more)
Hitchhiking through Asperger Syndrome
Written from a parent's perspective, this book gives a candid and thoughtful account of one family's trek through the world of Asperger's Syndrome. The author makes it very clear that, while... (more)
Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Mental health professionals consider the impact of death on entire family systems, the multiple generational legacies of loss, and the differential impact of a death depending on the developmental... (more)
Helping Families in Family Centres: Working at Therapeutic Practice
This book is a comprehensive guide for family centre workers, their managers and senior managers, and for all social workers working with children and families. As family centres are becoming an... (more)
Sex in Loving Relationships: The Relate Guide
Sex is part of a loving relationship. However, really loving someone doesn't always mean the sex will be wonderful - it might be as routine and dull as brushing your teeth, it might be difficult, or... (more)
Bereaved Parents and Their Continuing Bonds: Love After Death
For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a... (more)
The Trouble with Illness: How Illness and Disability Affect Relationships
This impressively honest book explores the effects a challenging disability or illness can have on the mind and personal relationships, and how others can help. Illness or disability can isolate... (more)
Parental Vigilant Care: A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers
This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescents. The effective component in vigilant care is not... (more)
Family Therapy: Skills and Techniques in Action
Relationships are a resource for healing a range of psychological difficulties. This is the fundamental principle of family therapy, an increasingly influential form of psychotherapy that is building... (more)
Focused Genograms: Intergenerational Assessment of Individuals, Couples, and Families: Second Edition
Focused Genograms introduces and provides a guide to constructing focused genograms through the lens of attachment theory. A genogram is a graphic representation of an intergenerational family tree... (more)
An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders: Healing Part by Part
Drawing on the evidence-based Internal Family System (IFS) therapy model, An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders addresses the necessity of healing the eating disorder... (more)
Therapeutic Relationships: The Tripartite Model: Development and Applications to Family Systems Theory
In this text, Butler takes an in-depth look at the development of family systems theory and how the work of Bowen, Gelso, and Meissner has shaped family psychotherapy. Family systems theory considers... (more)
Come Closer: On Love and Self-Protection
Everyone engages in self-protecting behaviours to some extent, but when these begin to take on the form of bad habits, they can be damaging. People often use self-protection strategies in love and... (more)
Couple Stories: Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Thinking About Couple Interaction
This book presents the application of key psychoanalytic concepts in thinking about the dynamics in the couple relationship. The contributions to the first part, mainly theory, discuss how different... (more)
Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families: Fourth Edition
This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a Global Perspectives... (more)
Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following... (more)
Doing Couple Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners: Second Edition
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert... (more)
Strengthening Family Resilience: Third Edition
In this widely used course text and practitioner resource, Froma Walsh provides a state-of-the-art framework for understanding resilience in families and how to foster it. Illuminating the complex... (more)