Marriage & Family Counseling Books

New and Published Books

1. Advances in Social Work Practice with the Military

   Edited by Joan Beder

   With the United States’ involvement in numerous combat operations overseas, the need for civilian social workers with the clinical skills necessary to work with members of the military returning from combat, as well as their families, has never been more critical. In this practical and important...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Serving Military Families in the 21st Century

   By Karen Rose Blaisure, Tara Saathoff-Wells, Angela Pereira, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Amy Laura Dombro

   Series: Textbooks in Family Studies

   This text introduces readers to military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life. Personal stories from active duty, National Guard, reservists, veterans, and their families, from all branches and ranks of the military, and those who work with military personnel, bring their...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge Academic
3. Social Class and the Helping Professions

   A Clinician's Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America

   Edited by Debbie C. Sturm, Donna M. Gibson

   This book provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection of social class and the helping professions, including examinations of the role of social class in American culture, classism, social class and mental health, and the American Dream. It will be a valuable tool for practitioners in a...

   Published March 6th 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. Two Plus Two

   Couples and Their Couple Friendships

   By Geoffrey L. Greif, Kathleen Holtz Deal

   Friendships are undeniably important to an individual’s health, longevity and wellbeing, but they can be equally important for the health and happiness of a couple. Just as a friend can provide a mirror to the self, another couple can provide a reflecting team that supports or impedes a...

   Published January 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. We're No Fun Anymore

   Helping Couples Cultivate Joyful Marriages Through the Power of Play

   By Robert Schwarz, Elaine Braff

   In the 21st century, we tend to expect more than ever from our relationships without knowing how to sustain them. Often a married couple juggling the many demands of life, work and children take their bond for granted. They fail to cultivate and nurture the positive interactions they share,...

   Published July 24th 2011 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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