Couples & Family

Now in its third edition, this highly regarded and well-established textbook includes up-to-date coverage of recent advances in family therapy practice and reviews of latest research, whilst retaining the popular structure and chapter features of...

A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life?Walter Mischel's now iconic 'marshmallow test,' one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968519967Author Liana LowensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Champion PressPublisher Champion PressWeight(grams) 994g

This book explores the link between the effectiveness of the family therapist and the complexity of the therapeutic relationship.For family therapists the therapeutic alliance is complex because there are different family members and the therapist must...

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation showcases the skills of Richard C. Schwartz and other leading IFS consultants and supervisors. Using unique case material, models, and diagrams, each contributor illustrates IFS techniques...

Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world. IFS reveals how the subpersonalities or "parts" of each individual's...

Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives explores how attachment-based ideas can be used in clinical practice by offering a practical and sophisticated exposition of clinical approaches. This new edition offers an updated overview of the integrations...

How do you know when it's time to leave a relationship? When do fixable issues become unavoidable barriers? And how to you put your self-worth first?Brilliantly incisive, witty and extremely informative, Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556438325Author Joy ManneFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Mothers today are tired, overworked, and overwhelmed. Mums desperately want to feel like they are succeeding, but the impractical standards placed on them leave them feeling burned out and frustrated. Releasing the Mother Load is an experiential...

Let's face it: Picture-perfect storybook romances don't exist in real life. Couples fight. Feelings of love wax and wane through the years. And the stress and tedium of everyday life and work can often drive a wedge between even the most devoted...

While every parent knows more of what to expect the next time round, the birth of a second child is no less momentous. Family relationships multiply, birth-order myths hover and sibling rivalry and parental exhaustion threaten. Yet the potential for joy...

Common Dilemmas in Couple Therapy addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices - problems that leave therapists exhausted, drained, challenged, alive, racing, and on edge. These dilemmas encompass not only the...

From the bestselling author of SET BOUNDARIES, FIND PEACE, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles - and living your life, your way.Every family has a story. For some of us, our family of origin is a solid foundation that feeds our...

A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last. Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to...

Couples in distress enter therapy holding two goals that they now experience as mutually exclusive: to feel loved and to feel understood. Toni Herbine-Blank's powerful new brand of couple therapy, Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), offers a...

Understand key stages in your child's development and discover effective parenting strategies from experts in education and neuroscience.What Every Parent Needs to Know delves into the latest research on child brain development and applies it to...

• An inclusive and comprehensive manual for neurodiverse couple therapy. • Written in the unique perspective of a neurodiverse MFT. • Offers guidance on best practices, assessment, treatment planning, and practical interventions for this population. •...

Franz Ruppert's book explores the different types of trauma experience, along with the bonding theories of John Bowlby and attachment work of Mary Ainsworth and others, forming a multigenerational picture of the dynamics of trauma. Experiences of trauma...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641523554Author Annie ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea Press

Do loving relationships end because couples lack communication skills, struggle to empathize, and fail to accommodate each other's needs? That's a common belief within and without the therapeutic world . . . but what if it's all wrong? In You Are the One...

* This book examines the emotional and relational reasons for sexual desire and how we can learn to express ourselves sexually * The number of psychosexual therapists along with sex and relationship trainees is currently growing. * Written in accessible...

This updated edition of Maxine Aston's workbook is packed full of insightful, helpful and easily accessible activities for couples where one or both partners is on the autism spectrum to understand and accept their differences. This book expands on...

Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year and that of the mother, father and other significant adults. This updated edition is informed by latest research in neuroscience, psychoanalysis and infant...

Here, in one brief volume, are the answers to these questions and many others. Doing Couple Therapy will be a lifesaver for family therapy students and beginning therapists. In a straightforward manner, the authors sift through years of family therapy...

IThe bestselling guide for understanding how your family made you, and how you can make yourself even better. 'Excellent' - Brendan O'Connor, RTE Radio One'I loved it' - Sile Seoige, Ready to Be Real * * *Our early years at home are when we lay down the...

This book presents Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) for trauma-focused therapy and care, adopting a systemic and trauma-orientated approach to aggressive and self-destructive behaviours in young people, where there have been adverse life experiences in the...

Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations. The expert authors focus on ways to help parents, children, and adolescents to...

Family therapy is increasingly recognised as one of the evidence based psychotherapies. In contemporary therapeutic practice, family therapy is helpful across the age span and for distress caused by family conflict, trauma and mental health difficulties...

Sex Addiction: A Guide for Couples and Those Who Help Them is a practical book that provides empathic support, guidance, information and pragmatic strategies for couples who want to survive sex and porn addiction - whether that's together, or apart. Sex...

"Full of juicy, concrete advice to heal from an affair." -Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, New York Times bestselling author of Mating in Captivity and The State of AffairsFrom a clinical psychologist who served as a clinical supervisor in the Department of...

Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy explores the complex task of parenting from the perspective of the couple relationship.A book for clinicians and parents alike, it describes problems that can occur during the transition to parenthood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671870744Author Scott WetzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...

Complete with exercises, reflections, and specially selected tasks, this workbook is written for those suffering from heartbreak (and their therapists) to support them in navigating and managing the pain of breakups. The authors help people in this...

Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) is a much misunderstood problem that affects the lives of millions of families around the world, possibly as many as one in ten. Despite this, and the lasting physical and psychological damage CPVA can cause, it...

Got jealousy? Get joy! – through empathic compersion!What is compersion? What contexts promote or hinder its occurrence? Can we “learn” compersion, or at least invite more of it into our lives? Is compersion the “opposite” of jealousy as it is usually...

Here, two of the world's leading couple therapists give readers an inside tour of what goes on in the consulting rooms of their practice. They have been doing couples work for decades and still find it challenging. This book gathers together what they...

Feeling a disconnect in your sex life?Sex and relationship therapist Charlene Douglas invites you to connect more, communicate better, and love more deeply.Perhaps you’ve considered seeing a therapist before but you worry it might be awkward or it’s too...

Daniel A. Hughes, a leading practitioner in his field, specializes in an attachment-oriented approach to family therapy. Applying his model to children and families with a range of psychological problems, this book distills just the clinical strategies,...

An experienced couples counselor identifies the unconscious factors that influence the way we feel and behave in intimate relationships-the invisible needs that create and sustain our dysfunctional patterns of relating. Whereas the conventional focus on...