Couples & Family

This new edition of Couples Therapy tackles four challenges currently facing the field: (1) accountability and the increasing demands for demonstrating effectiveness as a condition for reimbursement, (2) the need for practitioners to reconfigure their...

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...

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 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...

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 is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the therapist at the moment. It is a well-thought-out,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998729138Author Marcus KusiFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Our Peaceful FamilyPublisher Our Peaceful FamilyWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

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...

This guide practically aids mental health professionals in understanding and improving their therapeutic and academic writing, demonstrating how the written word is an invaluable tool to document, assess, and promote change with those in and outside the...

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 ...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647391843Author Theresa ComitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 251mm *...

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...

Solution-Focused Play Therapy is an essential text that blends the process of play therapy with solution-focused therapy.With a focus on child strengths and resources, this book identifies key concepts and principles in solution-focused play therapy...

The Disordered Couple, Second Edition, focuses on couples with psychiatric disorders and/or relational disorders that significantly impact their relationship, mental health, and well-being. It is the first and only book to provide mental health...

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...

This essential text explores the intersectionality of the self in therapeutic practice, bringing together theoretical foundations and practical implications to provide clear guidance for students and practitioners.Bringing together a collection of...

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...

Contemporary Issues in Close Relationships provides readers with an interdisciplinary framework for exploring several types of close, intimate relationships, including friendships, family dynamics, and romantic partnerships. The content emphasizes...

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.

"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...

This book is designed to help entry-level marital therapists learn the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice. The authors emphasize the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice and focus on the current trends toward...

Brief strategic family therapy (BSFT) is an evidence-based intervention for diagnosing and correcting patterns of family interactions that are linked to distressing experiences and symptoms in children ages 6-18. This clinical guide shows practitioners...

Future Families explores the variety of family forms which characterize our contemporary culture, while addressing the implications of these increasingly diverse family units on child development. Reveals the diversity of new family forms based on the...

`I liked this book. Though I am not a family therapist, like most mental health nurses I try to bear in mind the family relationships of individuals I am working with. This is an enlightening text which not only offer a framework with which we can better...

The latest theory, research, and practice information for family therapy The last twenty years have seen an explosion of new, innovative, and empirically supported therapeutic approaches for treating families. Mental health professionals working with...

A concise, readable introduction to systems theory (and especially second-order cybernetics) with practical applications to family therapy.This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family...

Couples who enter therapy often view the endeavor as a last-ditch effort before seeking legal services, filing for divorce, and parting ways for good. Given this mentality at the outset, couples therapy is not always successful or enjoyable-for either...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786077723981Author Javier VicencioFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Editorial Pax MexicoPublisher Editorial TerracotaWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781875378586Author Mark DaddsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Australian Academic PressPublisher Australian Academic Press

Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. The book confronts myths and misunderstandings about female sexuality, especially desire,...

If you need help having a baby, reproductive technology can supply the answer. But it also raises a host of questions that won't arise until after the child is born: What will you say to "Where did I come from?" when the answer includes a donor or...

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

Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is about helping families with complex psychiatric problems by seeing and meeting the families and the family members, as the best versions of themselves, before we see and address the diagnoses.This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982650592Author Stefanie CarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Gentle Path Press (imprint of New Freedom Publications)Publisher Gentle Path Press...

Long recognized as the authoritative guide for clinicians working with divorcing families, this book presents crucial concepts, strategies, and intervention techniques. Robert E. Emery describes how to help parents navigate the emotional and legal...

This book examines, through the lens of attachment and family systems theory, the legacies of violence and trauma that can infect families through generations. Bringing the latest research to a clinical audience, all therapists who work with families and...