Psychotherapy: couples and families Books

This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors. These men speak frankly about the abuse they...

Throughout human history, the relationships of individuals and groups have been disrupted by what the authors sum up as "demonization," the attribution of basic destructive qualities to the other or to forces within the self. Demonization results in...

Encouraging the development of a personal model of supervision built upon the integration of theory, research, and regard for the uniqueness of clinical settings, this new text will prepare readers for approved supervisor credential while advancing their...

The Baby and the Couple provides an insider's view on how infant communication develops in the context of the family and how parents either work together as a team or struggle in the process. The authors present vignettes from everyday life as well as...

For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse-five crippling, self-destructive behaviors-are given a common conceptual framework to help with therapeutic intervention...

Children are a gift from the Lord and you as a parent are God's greatest gift, guardian, protection and preparation gift to your child. There will be other people that play a role in your child's development, but parents have the biggest impact and the...

♥ Surprise him ♥Get Yours Now - He's worth it! Surprise him and melt his heart.This beautiful "Once Upon A Time" wife husband couple journal is a great gift idea for birthdays, wedding...

Victoria Lorient-Faibish would like to help create healthy relationships now! Connecting: Rewire Your Relationship-Culture is about changing what isn't working to create a new, unique, personalized, choice-filled relationship-culture that you consciously...

Curious about therapy? Get oriented and comfortable before you begin. Psychotherapist and author Faith Freed (LMFT) believes that therapy benefits anyone brave and wise enough to begin. In this down-to-earth book, she shares her first-hand knowledge...

This book presents an integrative, growth-oriented approach to therapy with couples that demonstrates the dynamic interplay between partners' emotional issues and their sexual difficulties. It offers a model for relational and sexual enhancement that...

A Life-Cycle Approach to Treating Couples draws on 30 years of clinical work and a rich body of research about lifecycle theory to offer couple therapists a guide to helping couples traverse six developmental stages-dating and commitment; transition to...

Embark on a transformative journey together with "Harmony in Love: A 100-Day Relationship Growth Guided Book for Couples." This meticulously crafted guide is designed to deepen your connection, enhance understanding, and foster mutual growth through a...

Currently, there is a lack of resources and information regarding how to best understand and support those impacted by incarceration. As the number of people impacted by incarceration rises, it is important that we acknowledge the issues and address the...

Advancing Sexual Health for the Christian Client is an essential toolkit for professionals working at the intersection of Christian belief and sexual health. In this book, Beverly Dale and Rachel Keller deconstruct potentially harmful Christian beliefs...

Dr. Quinn provides a review on related research and programs and effectiveness. A presentation of the model program provides most of the materials an individual or agency would need to begin to implement the program. A practitioner might take activities...

Non-accidental injuries to children usually are caused by parents who are addicted or neglectful of their child's basic needs for nurturance. The road to recovery and optimum health draws from an integrative process of self-awareness along with tools for...

This text explores family of origin treatment, which looks at patterns and rules in a family which affect interactions within that family. These patterns are then unconsciously utilized throughout a person's life in work and family settings. Examining...

Since around the 1970's, the world has witnessed a technological revolution equaling no less than a global paradigm shift in the way we communicate in our social relationships. The impact of the new technology has impacted every aspect of our lives from...

Sex Therapy with Religious Patients is a comprehensive guidebook for mental health professionals who work with those struggling with sexual issues within a religious context. This book provides practical guidance on how to approach sensitive topics...

The Primal Wound is a seminal work which revolutionizes the way we think about adoption. It describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which affects the relationships of the adopted person...

The author proceed to regard stepfamilies as different-not better or worse-than the nuclear family for successful therapy. While it is designed to be concise, the book offers a comprehensive look at this topic. The Vishers have crafted a text that will...

Attempts to guide readers towards forming the remarried family, considering such issues as former spouses, new grandparents, and legal issues involving custody, visitation, adoption and financial arrangements.

Aimed primarily at clinicians who are required to find ways to interrupt patterns of destructive behaviour in couples and families, this text provides a compilation of multi-disciplinary techniques and flexible strategies to accomplish 14 major...

Considers the family-of-origin approach to the psychiatric counselling of adults in marital, family and individual therapy. The text discusses theoretical and clinical implications and provides three case studies to illustrate the application of this...

The Contemporary Relational Supervisor, 2nd edition, is an empirically based, academically sophisticated, and learner-friendly text on the cutting edge of couple and family therapy supervision.This extensively revised second edition provides emerging...

Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals is an essential guide that integrates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with cultural humility. It provides a pathbreaking, evidence-based model of couples work that reinforces the...

Kinder leiden unter Konflikten ihrer Eltern. Bei hochstrittigen Elternbeziehungen ist eine gesunde und altersgerechte Entwicklung massiv gefährdet. Fachleute aus Sozialarbeit, Beratung, Therapie oder von Behörden und Gerichten stehen in der Praxis vor...

Sei stanco di sentirti sopraffatto dalle richieste degli altri? Vuoi imparare a stabilire confini chiari senza sensi di colpa? Continua a leggere...Ti senti spesso in colpa quando dici di no?Hai difficoltà a far rispettare i tuoi limiti...

Möchten Sie endlich "Nein" sagen können, ohne sich schuldig zu fühlen? Wollen Sie Ihr Leben selbstbestimmt gestalten und dabei respektvoll mit anderen umgehen? Dann lesen Sie weiter...Fühlen Sie sich oft überfordert, weil Sie die Grenzen anderer nicht...

Fatigué de vous sentir dépassé, coupable et hors de contrôle dans vos relations ? Découvrez le pouvoir transformateur de l'établissement de limites saines. Dites-vous constamment "oui" quand vous voulez dire "non" ? Avez-vous du mal à communiquer...

From Nicole Arzt, licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of @psychotherapymemes- a global community of more than 160,000 followers- comes a dynamic approach to understanding the modern therapist career. Sometimes therapy is awkward. And...

Treating PTSD presents a comprehensive, compassion-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach that provides therapists with the evidence-based information they need to understand trauma's effects on the mind and body as well as the phases of...

Through interviews with divorced therapists from diverse cultures, philosophies, and generations, this book explores how a therapist's divorce impacts their work with clients in couples therapy. Interviewees speak of their own experiences with trauma...

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...

What does it mean to be 'present and accounted for' when a family member is facing chronic illness or death? How does one define a self in relation to the ill or dying member and the family? Rooted in Murray Bowen's family systems theory, this edited...

This book introduces One at a Time (OOAT) Single Session Therapy (SST) for couples, presenting a new and innovative format for couples counselling and therapy that fills the gaps between SST and traditional couples therapy models. The book covers the...

talk2ME: How to communicate with women, tune-up your relationship, tone down the fights, dodge divorce, and have sex more than once a year. This book was written so that you can improve your ability to communicate with women and create change in your...

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...

This book explores an extensive range of questions and challenges within the training, theory, and practice of play therapy, with the aim of providing a stimulating and thought-provoking debate around many of the issues and dilemmas therapists experience.

What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health is a vital and timely text that will strengthen any clinician's awareness and competence when working with children, infants, and caregivers.

Relationship Coaching provides a comprehensive guide to coaching to achieve relationship success and enrichment in three main areas: to help single people to form and secure stable relationships, to assist couples seeking to enhance their relationship...

The Business of Being Made is the first book to critically analyze assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) from a transdisciplinary perspective integrating psychoanalytic and cultural theories. It is a ground-breaking collection exploring ARTs through...

“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 Affairs From a clinical psychologist who served as a...

Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families.