Family Therapy category: 649 books
Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Third Edition
From the First Interview to Termination
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
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 theories and techniques to conduct comprehensive assessments,...
The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy
Mindful Integrations with Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Why should family therapists care about brain research? Are there invisible connections between the breakdown of our relationships and the breakdown of our cells? To answer these questions, author Suzanne Hanna paints pictures of ancient principles coming together with contemporary research as a context...
Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy addresses the need for socially responsible couple, marriage, and family therapy that infuses diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout theory and clinical practice. The text begins with a discussion of societal systems, diversity, and socially just practice....
Counseling Families
Play-Based Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment offers an engaging and practical integration of expressive arts and play therapy within family counseling. Building upon the most current research in family counseling, this volume presents new and humanistic approaches of family play therapy, including family-based...
Family Therapy (Psychology Revivals)
The Treatment of Natural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a growing interest in family therapy as a potent tool for helping to bring about change and growth in many families whose lives had become stagnant, joyless or self-destructive. As it became more popular as a method of social work intervention, demands...
by Dottie Higgins-Klein
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Incorporating mindfulness and family therapy into play-family sessions.
When a child is offered a space to relax the “busy mind,” his experience is comparable to mindfulness meditation. Therapists can help children remain in this calm state—in the state of the present moment—if they...
by Ronald Mah
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
"Scorpion in the Bed, The Narcissist in Couples and Couples Therapy" guides essential adjustments in therapy to deal w/ the narcissism of one partner in a couple. Otherwise effective couple therapy interventions fail if narcissism is missed, since narcissism affects all aspects of relationship...
The Pathological Family
Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent. Clinicians developed...
by Ronald Mah
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
The therapist must anticipate complications- anticipate uncovering a "can of worms," that confuse and overwhelm the partners and therapy. Issues arise or intrude that ignite intense emotional reactivity from beneath the psychic surface to make easy living difficult if not impossible. Often minor issues...
Culture and Family
Problems and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Originally published in 1991, this landmark guide gave brilliant insights on dealing with the cultural aspects of family mental health. It systematically reviews various dimensions of the family from a cross-cultural perspective, including system, development, behaviour, and functioning. It then thoroughly...
Relational Family Therapy
The Systemic, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Relational Family Therapy introduces a cutting-edge family and couple therapy model that synthesizes relational theories and integrates object relations theory with interpersonal psychoanalysis and self-psychology. The model holds that individuals deal with conflicts rooted in the frustrated and threatening...
by Volker K. Thomas, Dr. Mudita Rastogi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Most traditional couple therapy models are based on the Eurocentric, middle-class value system and are not effective for today's psychotherapists working in multicultural settings. Multicultural Couple Therapy is the first "hands-on" guide for integrating couple therapy with culture, race,...
Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice
An Evidence-Based Treatment Model for Working With Troubled Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice develops a comprehensive presentation that serves as a systematic guide to understanding the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) clinical model, the FFT service delivery system, the theoretical principles that serve as the foundation of FFT, and the mechanism...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy, Second Edition builds upon the strong foundations of the first edition. This new edition addresses the 2015 AAMFT Code of Ethics as well as other professional organizations’ codes of ethics, and includes three new chapters: one on in-home...