Family Therapy category: 649 books
A Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy
Projective Identification, Couple Object Relations, and Omnipotent Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Couple psychotherapy extends the work of the psychotherapist to the patient’s most significant committed adult relationship, yet the therapy is difficult both conceptually and technically. One major reason for this difficulty is that in every couple’s treatment there is a confusing array of psychological...
by Gill Gorell Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
The new edition of this well-known text addresses the plurality of family life today, and considers the way in which the changeable 'theory of family' has influenced the approaches of those working with families. The emphasis in this second edition is on working in a context of cultural diversity and...
The Couples Therapy Companion
A Cognitive Behavior Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Learn to look at marriage and couples counseling through the lens of Rational Emotive Couples Therapy. Dr. Russell Grieger walks the reader through the RECT process and includes numerous exercises that are appropriate for clinicians to use with their clients, for those couples who are in therapy and...
A Roadmap for Couple Therapy
Integrating Systemic, Psychodynamic, and Behavioral Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
A Roadmap for Couple Therapy offers a comprehensive, flexible, and user-friendly template for conducting couple therapy. Grounded in an in-depth review of the clinical and research literature, and drawing on the author’s 40-plus years of experience, it describes the three main approaches to conceptualizing...
Brief Couples Therapy
Group and Individual Couple Treatment for Addiction and Related Mental Health Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
Brief Couples Therapy is a facilitator’s manual for counsellors working in substance use settings who would like to augment their practice by seeing couples. It will also be useful for couple counsellors who would like to offer a focused program for clients with substance use issues.
The...
Creating Optimal Relationships
Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Recent relationship science research finds that intense, satisfying romantic love is a real phenomenon occurring in couples. Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples provides the field of marriage and family therapy with the first model for assisting couples to sustain...
Strengthening Emotional Ties through Parent-Child-Dyad Art Therapy
Interventions with Infants and Preschoolers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Parent-child-dyad art therapy is an interesting and innovative art therapy, in which parent and child share the production of an artwork. Aiming to reinforce or re-establish bonds between children and parents, it provides a space where parents' early unresolved conflicts and children's developmental...
Black Families in Therapy, Second Edition
Understanding the African American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. Leading family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels, expands...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Regarded as the authoritative reference and text, this handbook presents the most effective, widely studied approaches to couple therapy. The distinguished coeditors bring together other leading experts, most of whom developed the approaches they describe. Adhering closely to a uniform structure to...
Couples Coping with Stress
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is the first book that reviews both empirical and clinical applications of how couples jointly cope with stress - dyadic coping - around the globe. The Systemic-Transactional Stress Model (STM), developed by co-editor Guy Bodenmann, is used as a consistent framework so readers can better appreciate...
Winnicott and 'Good Enough' Couple Therapy
Reflections of a couple therapist
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Claire Rabin innovatively applies the Winnicottian theory of the ‘good enough mother’ to couple therapy, redirecting attention to the therapeutic relationship and the therapist’s self-awareness regardless of the methods used. Using this lens, even the therapist’s mistakes become an opportunity...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners...
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists explores three key theories that underpin many of the models of psychotherapy: general systems theory, natural systems theory, and language systems theory. The book presents the aesthetics (how to see and understand what is happening) and the pragmatics (what...
Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy
Distinctive Features
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy (CBCT) is an enhanced and contextually grounded approach that provides evidence-based strategies for working with couple distress, as well as individual psychopathology in the context of a distressed relationship. Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Distinctive...