A Grief Unobserved - Helping Parents and Carers with Early Childhood Bereavement
by Neal James and Maggie Kindred
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...
Interwoven Lives (Research Monographs in Adolescence)
by Deborah A Keogh
Despite a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of adolescent parenting, minimal attention has been given to investigating systematic changes in adolescent mothers' and their children's psychological functioning over time. This book reports on a longitudinal study conducted to examine the social and psychological consequences of teen parenting for both mothers and their children. Qualitative and quantitative analyses are used to explain why some mothers and children fare better than othe...
Divorce (Current Perspectives in Psychology) (Current Perspectives in Psychology (YUP))
by Alison Clarke-Stewart and Cornelia Brentano
This comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with certainty about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. Accessible to parents and teachers as well as clinicians and researchers, the volume examines the impact of marital breakup on children, adults, and society. Alison Clarke-Stewart and Cornelia Brentano synthesize the most up-to-...
Embracing the messiness of real love, The Joy of Imperfect Loveexplores attachment issues and personal growth, uncovering the secrets to lasting, joy-filled connections. Stuck in unhealthy relationship dynamics? Yearning to find (or be) that perfect someone? Can you accept someone while also wanting them to grow? The key to healthy relationships is accepting that real love is messy, imperfect, and a work in progress! Clinical psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly’s The Joy of Imperfect Love gui...
Haim Omers Konzept der neuen Autorität und die Bindungstheorie: Was haben diese Ideen gemeinsam, wie universell sind sie? Wie können gute Beziehungen im Spannungsfeld von Autonomie und Bindung gestaltet werden? Wo bleibt das Kind im gewaltlosen Widerstand? Welche Rolle spielt die Ankerfunktion in der elterlichen und professionellen Präsenz? Renommierte deutsche und internationale systemisch orientierte Psychotherapeuten und Forscher setzen sich mit dem praktischen Nutzen der verschiedenen Theori...
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.
The participant's essential guide to reflection and personal growth Beyond Anger and Violence: A Program for Women Participant Workbook is the participant's personal place for reflection, reactions, and learning, during and after management sessions. The activities inside reinforce program lessons about anger and violence, including how families, relationships, communities, and society affect one's life. In learning about the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, participants...
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...
Developments in Family Therapy
'This book heralds an exciting new chapter in the history of family-centred practice. It takes us a long way down the road toward the destination of strength-based family work.'From the foreword by Associate Professor Dorothy Scott, University of MelbourneLife can be a struggle for some families, and support from skilled family workers can make a real difference. Promoting Family Change is a guide to working with vulnerable and marginalised families outside formal therapy settings.Promoting Fami...
The Heart of Intimate Abuse (Springer Series on Family Violence)
by Linda G. Mills
This startling analysis of violence within intimate relationships contends that every abusive relationship has, paradoxically, a heart of its own. Practitioners must acknowledge and engage this dynamic emotional center in order for interventions to succeed. The Heart of Intimate Abuse takes a broad, critical view of standard responses to abuse by today's criminal justice, social work, and medical systems--especially those that respond to violence with coercive interventions such as mandatory arr...
The Couple: A pluridisciplinary story asks two questions and endeavours to answer them: What is the couple? And what story are we talking about? Éric Smadja presents his view of "the couple" as a composite, sexual-bodily, socio-cultural and psychic living reality in diverse and variable interrelationships, unfolding within a complex temporality. Ambivalently invested in by each partner, the couple is structurally and dynamically as conflictual as it is critical. Smadja sees the couple as sit...
How to deal with family relationships is a problem that most people never solve. This book uses Family of Origin therapy techniques as a basis for you to improve those relationships and your own sense of self-esteem. Written in lay language, the step-by-step exercises show how to make contact with lost family members, how to interview relatives to develop a clearer picture of how each member fits into the family tree, and how to find different and better ways of dealing with family relationships...
Voices in Family Psychology 2 Volume Set
Families in Transformation (The EFPP Monograph)
Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging and articulated picture of the current situation in Europe. The reader will find various psychoanalytical models applied in it: from object relations theory to group analysis to the theory of links, encountering the lively and rich French, Italian, and British schools at work in different settings. Themes range from myths to secrets, to incest and the...
On its first publication in the nineties, Dennis Friedman's Inheritance caused a furore as he traced the (many) problems of the Royal family as it was then back to Queen Victoria's nursery, unveiling a host of psychodramas played out against a privileged background of English palaces and Scottish castles. As the royal line is followed down the generations no direct descendent is overlooked, no issue is sidestepped and in exploring Royal dynamics, Inheritance sheds light on problems found in any...
