Couples & Family Therapy Arena

Women, Children, and Addiction

• Edited by Loretta Finnegan, and Stephen Kandall.

Published November 2010

This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children. The volume begins by placing current attitudes towards addicted women…
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Working with Immigrant Families

A Practical Guide for Counselors

• Edited by Adam Zagelbaum, and Jon Carlson.

Published November 2010

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,…
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Enduring Desire

Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy

• By Michael E. Metz, and Barry W. McCarthy.

Published October 2010

In Enduring Desire, authors Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy inspire and motivate readers with real-life examples and clear, helpful individual and couple exercises to reach for realistic and high quality sexual satisfaction as a couple. Throughout the book, they promote positive, realistic…
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Bringing Systems Thinking to Life

Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory

• Edited by Ona Cohn Bregman, and Charles White.

Published October 2010

In a single volume, Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory presents the extraordinary diversity and breadth of Bowen theory applications that address human functioning in various relationship systems across a broad spectrum of professions,…
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Sex in Psychotherapy

Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter

• By Lawrence E. Hedges.

Published October 2010

Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and analysis of a wide variety of new perspectives on sex, sexuality, gender, and identity; new theories about…
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The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families

A Guide for Practitioners

• By Tom Caplan.

Published October 2010

The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families: A Guide for Practitioners shows readers how to successfully tailor a therapeutic approach to meet the needs of couples and families. Beginning clinicians will come away from this book with concrete, practical skills and expanded theoretical…
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Families Under Fire

Systemic Therapy With Military Families

• Edited by R. Blaine Everson, and Charles R. Figley.

Published September 2010

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’…
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Parenting After the Death of a Child

A Practitioner's Guide

• By Jennifer L Buckle, and Stephen J. Fleming.

Published August 2010

The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that of their surviving children.…
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Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Becoming a Highly Competent and Effective Therapist

• By Len Sperry.

Published August 2010

Core Competencies in Psychotherapy addresses the core competencies common to the effective practice of all psychotherapeutic approaches, and includes specific intervention competencies of the three major orientations. The book provides a research-based framework to aid clinicians in applying these…
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Electra vs Oedipus

The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

• By Hendrika C. Freud.
• Translated by Marjolijn de Jager.

Published July 2010

Electra vs Oedipus explores the deeply complex and often turbulent relationship between mothers and daughters. In contrast to Sigmund Freud’s conviction that the father is the central figure, the book puts forward the notion that women are in fact far more (pre)occupied with their mother. Drawing…
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