The Effects of the Internet on Social Relationships
by Joan D Atwood Ph D Lmft Lcsw and Conchetta Gallo Ph D Lmft
What is the secret of a long and contented marriage? In this book, Anne Power interviews contented couples in the US and the UK to discuss how they found each other and what made it work. As well as couples brought together by family arrangement or random romance, we meet those introduced deliberately by friends, or through agencies and the internet. Almost all the couples interviewed had faced major challenges along the way - but their attachment grew and relationships survived. In this book...
This book investigates the practice of family mediation and some of the challenges that may hinder its effective use by marginalised groups in a society. Those challenges include gendered power disparity and family violence, especially towards women, and the discussion extends to how the challenges can be overcome through a practice of evaluative mediation to provide fair outcomes for women. Unlike other contemporary books on mediation, this book not only discusses different theories of power an...
In his more than thirty years of experience as a therapist, Dr. David Kantor has learned that our lovers are mirrors for showing us who we really are -- and who we can become. In My Lover, Myself, readers will learn how to turn everything in a relationship -- normal difficulties or serious problems -- into opportunities for understanding our differences and becoming the best people we can be. Case histories and questionnaires will help lovers share their discoveries -- and make the journey back...
Family Therapy Approaches for Adolescents (Family Therapy Approaches for Adolescents, #3)
BUNDLE: Rasheed: Family Therapy + Rasheed: Readings in Family Therapy
by Janice M Rasheed
This book aims to capture a range of individual stories about patients living with psychosis; it presents their illness history, personal circumstances and what makes their particular story of treatment and recovery so unique and inspiring. This book provides an overview of psychosis and schizophrenia and demonstrates the range of experiences and recovery approaches. Approximately 600,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with psychosis however many face discrimination about their condition and may...
Winner of the 2014 AASECT Professional Book Award! Look beyond behavioral treatments, pharmaceutical interventions, and performance goals to a more comprehensive picture of what your clients want and need when they enter sex therapy. Gina Ogden is a master therapist, supervisor, researcher, teacher, and author with four decades of helping clients and training health professionals. Her ISIS Wheel of Sexual Experience is an innovative template that recognizes the full range of sexual issues: phys...
How to Counsel a Couple in 6 Sessions or Less
by H. Norman DMin Wright
The text is appropriate for courses in Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology, and Social Work. Expanding readers' exposure to practice, this new casebook presents the major marriage and family therapy approaches. As a supplement to a comprehensive text, it contains cases contributed by 18 seasoned marriage and family therapists who include real-life data about sessions, and their own decision-making process, emotions, and errors. It is important to note that contributing authors d...
Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition
by ROBERT AUGUSTUS PHD MASTERS
A comprehensive guide to intimacy through greater self-awareness—for those who want more loving, passionate, and liberating monogamous relationships Intimate relationship has long been viewed and lived as a lesser alternative to spiritual life. More recently, the need to integrate our spiritual and intimate lives, rather than maintaining separate spheres and relationships on autopilot, has become increasingly apparent. Given the high rates of infidelity and divorce, it would seem that the poss...
Motivational Interviewing in Social Work Practice (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)
by Melinda Hohman
Motivational interviewing (MI) offers powerful tools for helping social work clients draw on their strengths to make desired changes in their lives. This reader-friendly book introduces practitioners and students to MI and demonstrates how to integrate this evidence-based method into direct practice. Melinda Hohman and her associates describe innovative applications for diverse clients and practice areas, including substance abuse treatment, mental health, child welfare, community organizing, an...
Intergenerational Trauma Workbook
by Lynne Friedman-Gell, Friedman-Gell and Joanne Barron, PsyD
Family Systems Application to Social Work (Psychology Revivals)
Originally published in 1991, this title is a valuable social work text which demonstrated how to apply family system concepts to clinical situations encountered in work with inner-city populations at the time. Unlike traditional theories in clinical social work which were oriented toward the individual, this fascinating book offers a paradigm for social work that encompasses the client, his or her immediate and extended family, the community, the government, and the social worker. The family sy...
Extraordinary Sex Therapy
How do we help our clients discover the depth and breadth of sexual healing? Extraordinary Sex Therapy offers a range of innovative health-based approaches and models to explore the complexities inherent in sexual pleasure and potential as well as in trauma, pain, and dysfunction. The practitioners whose work is represented here expand the clinical conversation about sex beyond performance goals and tread courageously into unquantifiable realms of sexual and relational desire, health, and transf...
Award-winning couples therapist Peter Fraenkel argues that most relationship problems can be traced to partners being out of sync on the powerful but mostly hidden dimension of time. Differences in daily rhythms, personal pace, punctuality, time perspective, and priorities about how time is allocated can all lead to couple conflict. Yet the fascinating fact is that these polarizing time differences play a potent role in attracting lovers in the first place. In this trailblazing new book, he draw...
Many single woman–married man relationships are characterized by such recognizable, even stereotypic, interactions and run such a predictable course as to constitute a genuine syndrome. Documenting the existence of this syndrome with case histories from inside and outside clinical practice, Dr. Tuch gives serious consideration to the complex dynamics involved and offers a framework to help patients struggling with their involvement in such affairs. A broader discussion of relations between men a...
Thicker Than Blood (Margaret S. Mahler)
by Salman Akhtar and Selma Kramer
Thicker Than Blood addresses in depth the impact of adoption on biological parents, adoptive parents, adopted children, and siblings.
This study examines the often difficult process of being a parent and sustaining a partnership in a changing world. It focuses on the connections between parenting and partnering relationships at a time when the foundations of family life are being brought into question.