Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families (The Guilford Family Therapy)
by William C. Madsen
This text and professional resource offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with “difficult” families. From a nonpathologizing stance, William C. Madsen demonstrates creative ways to help family members shift their relationship to longstanding problems; envision desired lives; and develop more proactive coping strategies. Anyone working with families in crisis, especially in settings where time and resources are scarce, will gain valuable insights and tools from this book.
New Lindenfield guide to helping teenagers and young adults stay confident and feel good about themselves. Teens today need more help than ever. Being expected to grow up quickly; facing the problems of immense peer pressure; facing exam challenges - and getting to grips with the many changes and events of the teenage years can be exceedingly daunting. Confidence levels and the grown-up personality are moulded in your teens, and setbacks around this time can seriously impact...
This book traces the conception of systemic theory and how it continues to be adapted by various theorists and therapists in the treatment of families. The philosophy of the book seeks to encourage students to consider themselves as part of the systems with which they work, and to respect their own strengths and personalities even as they encourage clients to do the same. The theme of this book points out that although each theory that it discusses has its own value for working with families, so...
The psychologist Jan Bleckwedel demonstrates how therapists and clients can become active creative partners. He introduces a broad spectrum of systemic action tools and psychodynamic techniques. Numerous case examples show how creative therapeutic processes can best be established with families and couples. A navigation system spanning many different methdological approaches provides the reader with orientation. Many other overviews, lists, and graphs make this book a valuable reference work tha...
Are you looking for The One? Well, according to Dr Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and relationship expert, you don't have to look any further for the way to find that special someone than your very own brain chemistry. Based on Dr Fisher's groundbreaking personality type study, in which she analyzed the personalities of more than 28,000 people, Why Him? Why Her? provides a formula for long-term love that is based on cutting-edge discoveries in evolutionary neurology. Once you've ident...
The Dialogical Therapist (The Systemic Thinking and Practice)
by Paolo Bertrando
In this book, the author describes the dialogic therapist as someone whose therapy is guided by the use of systemic hypotheses, helping the readers understand how the ideas and techniques can take their place among the vast array of ideas in the systemic field.
Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling
Military Marriage Manual (Military Life, #2)
by Janelle Hill, Cheryl Lawhorne, Don Philpott, and Janelle Moore
At a time when divorce and suicide rates are at record levels in the military, The Military Marriage Manual: Tactics for Successful Relationships is an invaluable aid to members of the military and their spouses and families. The book presents advice for couples on a range of issues, both extraordinary and mundane, both those specific to military marriages and those common to all marriages, such as: -the ceremony -relationships with friends and family -household responsibilities -finances -dea...
The Science of Intimate Relationships
by Garth J. O. Fletcher, Jeffry A. Simpson, Lorne Campbell, and Nickola Overall
The Science of Intimate Relationships represents the first interdisciplinary approach to the latest scientific findings relating to human sexual relationships. Offers an unusual degree of integration across topics, which include intimate relationships in terms of both mind and body; bonding from infancy to adulthood; selecting mates; love; communication and interaction; sex; passion; relationship dissolution; and moreSummarizes the links among human nature, culture, and intimate relationshipsP...
Working with Adolescents (Clinical Practice with Children, Adolescents, and Families)
by Julie Anne Laser and Nicole Nicotera
Noted for its multisystemic-ecological perspective, this accessible text and practitioner resource has now been revised and expanded with 60% new material. The book provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and explores effective ways to support teens who are having difficulties. The authors examine protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual attributes to family, school, neighborhood, and media influences. Assessment and intervention str...
Hypnobirthing (Education and Relaxing Stories for the Soul, #5)
by Katharine Marie and Evelyn Montessori
Examining family life from birth to death, with its crises, developments and finales, this book describes many common scenarios and offers practical advice on stepping out of uncomfortable roles. The author deliberately adopts theatrical metaphors to engage the reader, and to show how members of a family are actors in a play and actually have the power to change the plot and the outcome. The dramas explored include invasive grandmothers after the birth of a first child, sibling rivalries, adoles...
Cop on is the ability to be rational, resilient and sensible. It's about having the grit and good judgement to cope with life's challenges. It incorporates emotional intelligence, self-awareness and adaptive decision-making. Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Colman Noctor believes that it is essential that we foster cop on in our children. Why? Because we are now trying to navigate rapid technological and societal changes in our world. Cop on bolsters our children's ability to cope wi...
God's Little Book of Marriage Builders
by Karen Holford and Bernie Holford
Reconcilable Differences
by Andrew Christensen, Brian David Doss, and Neil S. Jacobson
Winner of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Seal of Merit! Every couple has arguments, but what happens when recurring battles begin to feel like full-scale war? Do you retreat in hurt and angry silence, hoping that a spouse who "just doesn't get it" will eventually see things your way? Spend the time between skirmishes gathering evidence that you're right? Demand some immediate changes--or else? Whether due to innate personality traits or emotional vulnera...
Cengage Advantage Books: Family Therapy
by Herbert Goldenberg and Irene Goldenberg