Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
The Marriage and Family Therapy Career Guide: Doing Well While Doing Good
How does one obtain employment and succeed in the growing yet competitive field of family therapy? For anyone asking themselves this question, The Marriage and Family Therapy Career Guide is the... (more)
Helping Children and Families Cope with Parental Illness: A Clinician's Guide
When a parent or parental figure is diagnosed with an illness, the family unit changes and clinical providers should consider using a family-centered approach to care, and not just focus on the... (more)
Techniques for the Couple Therapist: Essential Interventions from the Experts
Techniques for the Couple Therapist features many of the most prominent psychotherapists today, presenting their most effective couple therapy interventions. This book provides clinicians with a... (more)
The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Story
The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Story asks two questions and endeavours to answer them: What is the couple? And what story are we talking about? Eric Smadja presents his view of 'the couple' as a... (more)
Couples in Conflict: Classic Edition
This classic volume provides a solid foundation for thinking about creative ways in which our society can work to prevent or minimize destructive couple conflict and enhance couples' abilities to... (more)
The STOP Program: For Women Who Abuse: Group Leader's Manual
Long disregarded and downplayed, female domestic violence is today rapidly gaining awareness as research proves not only that it exists, but that - according to multiple incidence studies - the... (more)
The Genogram Casebook: A Clinical Companion to Genograms: Assessment and Intervention
A companion to the celebrated text Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, this workbook will articulate exactly how to put genograms to use in therapy work. Issues surrounding client engagement,... (more)
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised... (more)
Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity: Fourth Edition
Widely adopted, this valued course text and practitioner guide has expanded the understanding of family normality and healthy functioning in our increasingly diverse society. The editor and... (more)
The Person of the Therapist Training Model: Mastering the Use of Self
The Person of the Therapist Training Model presents a model that prepares therapists to make active and purposeful use of who they are, personally and professionally, in all aspects of the... (more)
Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum: Autism Conversations in Narrative Practice
The autism spectrum presents a range of communication, social, and sensory differences that are challenging for clinicians to address. Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum provides a guide to... (more)
Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples
This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North America, Latin... (more)
Therapeutic Approaches with Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention
Therapeutic Interventions with Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention is about the value of observation and close attention for babies and young children who may be vulnerable... (more)
Schema Therapy with Couples: A Practitioner's Guide to Healing Relationships
Schema Therapy for Couples represents the first practitioner guide to detail effective Schema Therapy techniques in couple and relationship therapy.
* Shows how the distinctive features of ST... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 6 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 6 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Sibling Issues in Therapy: Research and Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Sibling matters underlie issues at the core of many clinical difficulties presented by adult clients. Recent studies show that individuals with a close sibling relationship are more emotionally... (more)
Handbook of Family Therapy: Second Edition
Integrative, research-based, multisystemic: these words reflect not only the state of family therapy, but the nature of this comprehensive handbook as well. The contributors, all well-recognized... (more)
Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma: Theory, Practice, and Evaluation
Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma explains the theoretical basis for understanding collective and national trauma through the concept of systems theory, and gives ways of... (more)
Effective Working with Neglected Children and Their Families: Linking Interventions with Long-Term Outcomes
Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change. This book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care... (more)
Working with Parents of Anxious Children: Therapeutic Strategies for Encouraging Communication, Coping and Change
The topic of anxious children is on the front burner these days, both among parents and mental health professionals, and its only gaining attention as more and more clinicians are presented with... (more)
10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy
Here, two of the world's leading couple therapists give readers an inside tour of what goes on inside the consulting rooms of their practice. They have been doing couples work for decades and still... (more)
Systemic Inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research
This collection has been written by eminent members of the systemic communities to inspire reflexive practitioners and offer leading edge systemic research methodology with innovative approaches to... (more)
Married Life and its Vicissitudes: A Therapeutic Approach
This book is about marital relations and its vicissitudes, and the possible way of dealing with them through marital therapy. It reflects the importance of turning marital miscommunications into... (more)
Handbook of Family Therapy: Second Edition
Integrative, research-based, multisystemic: these words reflect not only the state of family therapy, but the nature of this comprehensive handbook as well. The contributors, all well-recognized... (more)
Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide
The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face... (more)
Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness
This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists who have... (more)
Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide
The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult - but also one of the most common - factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical,... (more)
Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice: Third Edition
Featuring rich case examples, this book has helped tens of thousands of students and therapists build the skills and confidence needed to tackle the full range of issues that families bring to... (more)
Sexual Dysfunction: A Guide for Assessment and Treatment: Third Edition
Highly regarded as a course text and practitioner resource, this book presents concise intervention guidelines for the most frequently encountered sexual dysfunctions in women and men. Following a... (more)