Family Therapy category: 649 books
Families Coping with Mental Illness
Stories from the US and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
When someone develops a mental illness, the impact on the family is often profound. The most common treatment processes, however, focus on the patient while the loved ones are relegated to subordinate roles and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective recovery. Families Coping with Mental Illness...
by Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"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 University
"This is easy to read and has...
Taming Marital Arguments
Breaking Out of the T.R.A.P.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
What happened since the honeymoon?
Are you mad at your partner all the time?
Do you feel like your partner is selfish?
Do innocent conversations suddenly escalate into arguments?
Does your partner misinterpret what you say?
Do you feel emotionally distant from your...
Families CARE: Helping Families Cope and Relate Effectively
Facilitator's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Families CARE is a group-based program that helps family members Cope And Relate Effectively with the person who has a substance use problem.
The program offers education, support and skills development. Family members learn about, discuss and practise such skills as coping, grieving, dealing...
Becoming A Stepfamily
Patterns of Development in Remarried Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcomes the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals better support this development? This book brings both clarity and depth to the unique and complex...
Behavioral Health
Integrating Individual and Family Interventions in the Treatment of Medical Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
In this age of accountability, and irrespective of whether they work in health-care settings or conventional mental health settings, all therapists will be increasingly expected to provide effective psychosocial treatment to individuals and families who face co-morbid medical conditions. Statistics...
Family Assessment
Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians. It covers more than one hundred assessment methods – both the most widely used strategies as well as those that are more specialized and issue-specific. Techniques...
Family Therapies
A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Family Therapies
crisis and trauma
marital conflict
separation, divorce, and blended families
substance abuse and addictions
gender, culture, economic class, and race
sexual identity
Family Therapies
Helping Children and Families Cope with Parental Illness
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
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 patient coping with the illness. Helping Children and Families Cope with Parental Illness describes theoretical...
Fathers Who Fail
Shame and Psychopathology in the Family System
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in child development and on fathering as a developmental stage, surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically impaired father. In Fathers Who Fail, Melvin Lansky remedies this glaring lacuna in the literature. Drawing on...
Juggling Romance and Parenthood
How to balance your family and your love life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about keeping things in perspective as a new parent with this straightforward guide.
While no two couples will ever face the exact same challenges upon having a child, many new parents’ attention is so consumed by the new...
Take Back Your Marriage, Second Edition
Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
All couples walk to the altar dreaming of happily-ever-after, but many forces in our society work against healthy lifelong commitment. Renowned family therapist William J. Doherty reveals how cracks can develop in even a rock-solid marriage, and what steps you can take to keep your love strong. Learn...
Cutting Loose
An Adult's Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1990
With more than thirty-five years of experience in psychotherapy, Dr. Halpern enables the adult child to understand his or her parent and foster a positive, healthy adult relationship.
In all respects, you appear to be well-adjusted, reasonably successful adult, but in the presence of your parents,...
Rebuilding
When Your Relationship Ends
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In print for thirty-five years, Rebuilding is the number one trusted resource on divorce recovery. Now, this classic self-help book is available in an updated fourth edition, featuring a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti.
If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you...