Couples & Family Therapy Arena

Jay Haley Revisited

• Edited by Madeleine Richeport-Haley, and Jon Carlson.

Published February 2010

Jay Haley Revisited brings together some of the most influential professionals who introduce, analyze, and put into context some of the most interesting and significant papers Jay Haley produced, both published and unpublished. Jay Haley was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy who…
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The Embedded Self

An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy

• By Mary-Joan Gerson.

Published August 2009

First published in 1996, The Embedded Self was lauded as "a brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in both modalities of treatment." Mary-Joan Gerson’s integrated presentation of psychodynamic and family…
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Common Dilemmas in Couple Therapy

• By Judith P. Leavitt.

Published August 2009

Common Dilemmas in Couple Therapy addresses four common problems that couples therapists face everyday in their offices, problems that leave therapists exhausted, drained, challenged, alive, racing, and on edge. These dilemmas encompass not only the difficult challenges therapists face everyday,…
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Family Therapy

100 Key Points and Techniques

• By Mark Rivett, and Eddy Street.

Published May 2009

Family therapy is increasingly recognised as one of the evidence based psychotherapies. In contemporary therapeutic practice, family therapy is helpful across the age span and for distress caused by family conflict, trauma and mental health difficulties. Because of this, many psychotherapists…
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Counseling Military Families

What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know

• By Lynn K. Hall.
• Foreword by Mary Edwards Wensch.

Published June 2008

According to the United States Department of Defense, by the end of 1993 there were 2,036,646 reservists and family members and 3,343,235 active duty and family members for a total of 5,379,781 people affected by the military. Since then, because of the conflict in Iraq, the numbers have…
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Triangles

Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives

• By Peter Titelman.

Published March 2008

Move through emotional triangles toward a natural systems view of the individual in the context of the family and society Triangles: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives presents clear applications of Murray Bowen’s concept of the emotional triangle in the family, the organization, and…
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Counseling Troubled Boys

A Guidebook for Professionals

• Edited by Mark S. Kiselica, Matt Englar-Carlson and Arthur M. Horne.

Published December 2007

This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A…
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Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness

• Edited by Wanda Malcolm, Nancy DeCourville and Kathryn Belicki.

Published October 2007

This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists who have dedicated themselves to grappling with the controversies and conundrums associated with…
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Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

• By Anthony P. Jurich.

Published September 2007

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…
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Family Art Therapy

Foundations of Theory and Practice

• By Christine Kerr, Janice Hoshino, Judy Sutherland, Sharyl Thode Parashak and Linda Lea McCarley.

Published August 2007

Family Art Therapy is designed to help the reader incorporate clinical art therapy intervention techniques into family therapy practice. Expressive modalities are often used in work with families, particularly visual art forms, and there is already considerable evidence and literature that point to…
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