Family Therapy and Counseling

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1. Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple

   Edited by Katherine M. Helm, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   This exciting new text on counseling African American couples outlines critical components to providing culturally-sensitive treatment. Built around a framework that examines African American couples’ issues as well as the specific contextual factors that can negatively impact their relationships,...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Couples in Collusion

   Short-Term, Assessment-Based Strategies for Helping Couples Disarm Their Defenses

   By Dennis A. Bagarozzi

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   When a couple enters therapy, both partners have either explicit or implicit understandings of what can—and, more importantly, cannot—be discussed in therapy. Even when empirically tested assessments are used to help pinpoint areas of concern and conflict, couples may choose to identify only those...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy

   Practicing With 21st Century Realities

   Edited by Paul R. Peluso, Richard E. Watts, Mindy Parsons

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   As the baby boomers move into retirement and later stages of life, gerontology and geriatrics have begun to receive much more attention. Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy explores the ways in which family therapists’ expertise in systems theory makes them uniquely qualified to take a leading...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling

   A Choice Theory and Reality Therapy Approach

   Edited by Patricia A. Robey, Robert E. Wubbolding, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling explores the most difficult issues that people in the helping professions face when treating couples and provides concrete solutions for addressing them effectively. Using the revolutionary choice theory and reality therapy approaches to couples counseling,...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Counseling Military Couples

   Edited by Bret A. Moore

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   The military imposes unique and often severe challenges to couples, which clinicians – particularly the growing numbers of civilian clinicians who see military couples – often struggle to address. These problems are only compounded by misunderstandings and misconceptions about what it means to be...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Family Assessment

   Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Len Sperry

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   In an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians. It covers more than one hundred assessment methods – both the most widely used strategies as well as those that are more specialized and issue-specific. Techniques...

   Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Case Studies in Couples Therapy

   Theory-Based Approaches

   Edited by David K. Carson, Montserrat Casado-Kehoe

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   This up-to-date, highly readable, theory-based, and application-oriented book fills a crucial void in literature on couple therapy. Few books in the couple therapy market bridge the gap between theory and practice; texts tend to lean in one direction or the other, either emphasizing theory and...

   Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Poisonous Parenting

   Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children

   Edited by Shea M. Dunham, Shannon B. Dermer, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of poisonous parents have affect their relationships into adulthood? Like physicians, clinicians do not want to amputate, but they sometimes find it...

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Working With Immigrant Families

   A Practical Guide for Counselors

   Edited by Adam Zagelbaum, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   Working With Immigrant Families examines the theoretical and practice-based issues that must be considered by counseling professionals when performing family therapy with immigrant clients. It provides practitioners with insights into why immigrant families come to the United States,...

   Published November 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships

    A Clinician's Guide

    Edited by Jon Carlson, Len Sperry

    Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

    The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult—but also one of the most common—factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical, evidence-based guidelines on which clinicians can depend as they wade through the intense emotions and...

    Published July 6th 2010 by Routledge