Couples & Family

The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by 'stretching the world' of their clients. The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which show how skilled attention on the client and their words is...

Men's Sexual Health is a breakthrough book about vital and satisfying male sexuality. It presents a new model of male and couple sexuality, which establishes positive, realistic expectations of pleasure and satisfaction, as opposed to the self-defeating...

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith-mired in sexual shame and dysfunction-and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The...

New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships. Based on the research expertise of...

Stereotypically, science and emotion are diametric opposites: one is cold and unfeeling, the other soft and nebulous; one is based on proven facts while the other is based on inexplicable feelings and "never the twain shall meet," until now.John Gottman...

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 interplay of biopsychosocial influences in risk and...

The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don't know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common psychopathologies. Valeria Ugazio bridges this gap by examining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399521379Author Clifford NotariusFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Parenting is for life - 7 days a week, 24 hours a day - and while it is one of the most rewarding experiences life can offer it can also be frustrating when faced with challenging behaviour. But what if just 15 minutes of mindful playtime each day in you...

Most of Shakespeare's tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's...

This state-of-the-art clinician's guide describes Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by traumatic stress and adverse life experiences. P-CPP, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393701203Author Tom AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647399542Author Lynne Friedman-GellFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

From leading marital therapists and researchers, this unique book presents a three-stage therapy approach for clinicians working with couples struggling in the aftermath of infidelity. The book provides empirically grounded strategies for helping clients...

By viewing romantic love as an attachment bond, Clare Rosoman incorporates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) and attachment theory to provide evidence-based tools in navigating close relationships and managing the pain of relationship loss. Beginning...

`A thought provoking and interesting book that will be of interest to nurses and others supporting patients' - Accident and Emergency Nursing `It is a relevant and timely book that will remind therapists of the importance of the telling of client's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592401857Author Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 18mm

"If you need one book that's crammed with clinically excellent, genuinely well informed and useful ideas for working with family relationships in all their permutations, this is undoubtedly it" - Professor Colin Feltham, Sheffield Hallam...

Written by a pioneer and continuing advocate for perinatal health, this book remains remains an enduring reference for any therapist working with pregnant or postpartum women and their families suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.This...

Third edition of this classic on family therapy. The introduction calls it a conceptual frame around which to organize your data and your impressions ...a suggested path.About the AuthorVirginia Satir (1916-1988) was one of the major pioneers in family...

All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the...

This book offers recent knowledge, research and theory about the earliest developmental period-from conception to birth. It provides an in-depth exploration of eleven current themes related to prenatal development. The book illuminates how experiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826109590Author Elliott ConnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co Inc

From a leading expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy and couple and family therapy, this comprehensive guide combines research and clinical wisdom. The author shows how therapeutic techniques originally designed for individuals have been successfully...

This resource provides a wealth of activities to use in therapeutic work with families, tailored to meet the particular needs of different types of family. Chapters are organized by family type, and include divorced families, families with an...

This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors. Grounded in Salvador Minuchin's influential systemic model and the...

Now in a significantly revised sixth edition with 70% new material, this comprehensive handbook has introduced tens of thousands of practitioners and students to the leading forms of couple therapy practiced today. Prominent experts present effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593435595Author Morgan JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ZeitgeistPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517542481Author Indra Torsten PreissFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Consensual nonmonogamy (CNM) means that all partners in a relationship consent to expanded monogamy or polyamory. Clinicians are on the front line in providing support for the estimated millions pioneering these modern relationships. This first available...

This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad range of verbal and nonverbal strategies for engaging all...

This essential handbook provides clinicians with the tools to introduce Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) into their practice working with individuals, couples, and families.Describing the "how to" and "how to decide what to do" aspects of IST, this...

"Madanes' lucid, coherent, and practical guide for familytherapists is a welcome addition to the proliferating literature byfamily therapy theorists and practitioners.... The book is concise,well organized and clearly written." --Contemporary Psychology ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667112787Author Sara BarreraFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Sara BarreraPublisher Sara BarreraWeight(grams) 658g

Many 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. Focusing on what works, the authors show how to flexibly draw on multiple...

With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, this book presents couple and family therapy models that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Chapters provide compelling insights on the nature of interactions...

The co-authors draw on over thirty years of experience to show young therapists how and how not to conduct psychotherapy. Each chapter begins with a vignette illustrating a common mistake, then describes the error in detail, explains why therapists make...

If you are facing the unique challenges of caring for a parent with dementia, you are not alone. What do you do when your loved one so plainly needs assistance, but is confused, angry, or resistant to your help? Where can you find the vital information...

Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples. Leading couple therapist Ellen Wachtel describes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683737131Author Elizabeth EarnshawPage Count 54Imprint PESI Publishing, Inc.Publisher PESI Publishing, Inc.