This user-friendly guide introduces a powerful therapeutic method that uses family history as a tool for understanding—and resolving—problems of the present Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person’s inability to tru...
Women's Work, Families And Health: The Balancing Act
This classic edition of Violet Oaklander’s ground-breaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children that enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways that Hidden Treasure continues to inform therapeutic practice all over the world. Most of the literature available on working with children is written from a traditional ‘play therapy’ point of view; the Gestalt Therapy-based approach detailed here provides a more effective method for psychotherap...
Do you and your partner argue about the same things over and over again? Are you often confused about why your partner is so angry with you? Are things getting worse and worse even though you've tried everything you can think of to make them better? In this breakthrough guide to repairing romantic relationships, therapist and marriage researcher Dr. Stephen Betchen presents a powerful new explanation of what leads to this kind of escalating conflict in couples and how you can repair your relat...
Acclaimed family therapist and author of the classic bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? presents a comprehensive and actionable guide to understanding and healing from narcissistic family abuse. A pioneer on the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse, Karyl McBride, PhD, has the answer for anyone desperate for help in overcoming the damage of being raised in a family headed by a narcissistic parent. Divided into three sections, McBride explores the insidious way a narcissistic environm...
As many as one-third of all American women tiptoe through life as if they are walking on eggshells -- at home, they spend most of their time trying to avoid criticism, anger, put-downs, or cold shoulders from their husbands or boyfriends. This verbal and emotional abuse can erupt over anything and everything, matters large and small: housework, cooking, work, spending money, buying household items and clothes for the kids, and going out. Clearly, verbal and emotional abuse is a serious problem....
Through the Maze of Motherhood, Empowered Mothers Speak
by Erica Horwitz
This is a unique book that argues that mothers who are critical thinkers and who take a stance against social pressures to be perfect mothers experience a sense of empowerment. The book is based and expands on qualitative research that explored the experience of mothers who resist the current discourse on mothering. Through the Maze of Motherhood conveys what it is like to resist a strong societal discourse and how some mothers have managed to navigate the intricacies of the process of resistanc...
Couples Coping with Stress
by Tracey A Revenson, Karen Kayser, and Guy Bodenmann
Presents an in-depth look at recent theoretical perspectives and original research on how couples cope with stress, including acute and chronic stress, stresses within and outside of the family, and physical and mental illnesses, and describes innovative therapeutic programs.
Drawing on vast clinical experience and original research, Dr. Beardslee shows for the first time how the principles of prevention can be effectively applied to families in which a parent is depressed. He offers specific, practical guidelines for parents, caretakers and children as he outlines a step-by-step approach that will enable families to escape the reality of depression's effects on their lives and, from there, to nurture the resilience and bonds that will make them strong.
Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy
This work offers the latest theory, research, and practice information for family therapy. The last twenty years have seen an explosion of new, innovative, and empirically supported therapeutic approaches for treating families. Mental health professionals working with families today apply a wide range of approaches to a variety of situations and clients using techniques based on their clinically and empirically proven effectiveness, their focus on specific individual and relational disorders, th...
This parent education program helps professionals support teen parents and parents with learning problems, such as intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, or mental illness. It contains processes and strategies validated over the past 30 years. The program has three components: a program manual, 15 parent booklets, and supplemental resources. The manual includes information on assessing parents' current skills and outlines content to cover in parent education sessions. The parent bookl...
In this applied text, the authors, in conjunction with well-known contributors from the field of social work, discuss current trends in today's practice environments followed by a review of brief family practice models. They present the history, theory, and techniques of the following models: structural, strategy-based, cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, postmodern practice, psychoeducational, and family preservation perspectives. They also present sections in each chapter on: consistency w...
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An informative and inspiring guide to rebounding from childhood hardships to find uncommon strength and courage “The Resilient Self reminds us all of the importance of being aware of and building on the strengths of our young people, whatever their early life experiences. We must work to give them hope and to craft services and programs that are respectful of the resiliencies so thoughtfully characterized by the Wolins. This guide, although based on the experiences of adults, offers extremel...
The Good Enough Parent: How to raise contented, interesting and resilient children
by The School of Life
Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children's minds operate and what they need from those who look after them so they can develop into the best version of themselves. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of lessons, including ideas on how to say 'no' to a child one adores, how to look beneath the surface of 'bad' behaviour to work out what m...