Mental Health: Family Therapy

By Anthony P. Jurich

This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to replace other forms of therapy but to augment the therapist’s own therapeutic style. The book offers…

Paperback – 2015-04-23
Routledge

Edited by R. Blaine Everson, Charles R. Figley

As provider networks on military bases are overwhelmed with new cases, civilian clinicians are increasingly likely to treat military families. However, these clinicians do not receive the same military mental-healthcare training as providers on military installations, adding strain to clinicians’…

Paperback – 2015-04-23
Routledge

Edited by Katharine L. Loeb, Daniel Le Grange, James Lock

Family-based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders is an outpatient therapy in which parents are utilized as the primary resource in treatment. The therapist supports the parents to do the work nurses would have done if the patient were hospitalized to an inpatient-refeeding unit, and are eventually…

Paperback – 2015-04-10
Routledge

Edited by K. Daniel O'Leary

Originally published in 1987 this book was designed to present the most recent research data on assessment of various aspects of marriage. Noted authorities on specific assessment areas provide information on conceptual and practical issues in marital assessment. The chapters include assessment of…

Paperback – 2015-03-16
Routledge
Psychology Revivals

By Alan Carr

Originally published in 1995 Positive Practice is for newcomers to the field of family therapy and systemic consultation including professionals from a variety of disciplines, such as psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, child care and protection, occupational therapy, paediatrics and…

Paperback – 2015-02-26
Routledge
Psychology Revivals

By Ronald T. Potter-Efron

Ronald T. Potter-Efron consciously connects anger management and domestic violence, two long separated fields, and addresses treatment options and intervention methods that meet the needs of individual clients, couples, families, and groups. Therapists, counselors, social workers, and other…

Paperback – 2015-02-17
Routledge

By Dilys Daws, Alexandra de Rementeria

Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year, and that of the mother, father and other significant adults. It does so in a way that is deeply informed by psychoanalytic understandings, infant observation, developmental science and decades of…

Paperback – 2015-02-16
Routledge

Edited by Christine Kerr

How does the family art therapist understand the complexities of another’s cultural diversity? What are international family therapist’s perspectives on treatment? These questions and more are explored in Multicultural Family Art Therapy, a text that demonstrates how to practice psychotherapy…

Paperback – 2015-01-14
Routledge
Routledge Series on Family Therapy and Counseling

By Laurel Kiser

Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) uses a skill-building, multi-family group framework to teach constructive resources to families who have a high exposure to stress and trauma. As an intervention for high-risk families, SFCR can cause a reduction in symptoms of traumatic distress and…

Paperback – 2015-01-14
Routledge

Edited by Peter Titelman

Bowen theory views the family as an emotional unit. The family is a natural system that has evolved, like all living systems. The elegance and unity of the concept of differentiation of self, and of Bowen theory in its entirety, is that they describe the basis of individual functioning in relation…

Paperback – 2015-01-06
Routledge

Edited by Patricia K. Kerig, Kristin M. Lindahl

CODING MANUAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FROM THE CHAPTER AUTHORS, AND THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESSES CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE XV OF THE BOOK.Family studies is an area that has enjoyed the benefits of conceptual and methodological advances in recent years including the widespread adoption of observational…

Paperback – 2014-12-22
Psychology Press

Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Recently, the roles of fathers and husbands in families have been recognized as important issues. They appear in legislation aimed at deadbeat dads, social movements including the Million Man March and Promise Keepers, in the development of advocacy groups, and in think tanks. Therefore,…

Paperback – 2014-12-22
Psychology Press
Penn State University Family Issues Symposia Series