Family psychology

Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: A Workbook for the 'No Kids in the Middle' Intervention Programme is an essential resource for reframing the divorce process to centre the child.

Solution-Focused Cognitive and Systemic Therapy: The Bruges Model is the first book in English to lay out the Bruges Model, a meta-model that incorporates solution-focused therapy in an analysis of the therapeutic alliance and common factors that account for the majority of the efficacy of any therapeutic endeavor.

First published in 1986.

This fully updated, accessible text examines how the science of autonomy and adaptation informs all family therapy approaches and discusses how clinicians can use this science to improve their practice.

The autism spectrum presents a range of communication, social, and sensory differences that are challenging for clinicians to address.

Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity.

Working with Co-Parents is a practical manual for therapists and social workers who work with divorced and/or separated parents of children.

The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child.

This book suggests a strategy to put students'' practices, cultures, and identities in the center of a twenty-first-century education.

Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians.

Family therapy is increasingly recognised as one of the evidence based psychotherapies.

Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population.

The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening.

Marriage is a major step in a relationship, and each member of that newly joined pair brings with them their own existing family and the corresponding complexity and richness of in-law relationships.

Toward a Theory of Child-Centered Psychodynamic Family Treatment: The Anna Ornstein Reader offers a clear introduction to Anna Ornstein's ground-breaking work on psychoanalytic child orientated family therapy.

This unique text encourages young adults to reflect on their prospective longevity for setting goals and making decisions, become aware of the aspirations and concerns of other generations, and consider personal direction in relation to peer group norms.

The Therapist's Notebook for Families, Second Edition, provides 72 solution-oriented activities for an array of challenging problems faced by mental health professionals when working with clients.

Currently, there are over 400,000 youth living in foster care in the United States, with over 20,000 aging out of the child welfare system each year.

African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families.

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and theories of family communication and family relationships.

This classic volume provides a solid foundation for thinking about creative ways in which our society can work to prevent or minimize destructive couple conflict and enhance couples' abilities to constructively handle their differences.

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline philosophy and content.

Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) is a profession that is expected to grow rapidly over the next ten years.

Most of Shakespeare's tragedies have a family drama at their heart.

When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways?

The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the Westfrom an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentatorWhat two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common?

Because chronic disorder is becoming an ordinary feature of family life and development, understanding its impact has become critical.

In a rapidly changing world, children have more of a voice than ever before.

This comprehensive second edition inspires therapists to utilize clinical work to pragmatically address intersectional oppressions, lessen the burden of minority stress, and implement effective LGBTQ affirmative therapy.

John and Elizabeth Newson's long-term investigation of child up-bringing attracted intense interest from its earliest beginnings: 'pathbreaking' and 'seminal' were adjectives that greeted their first report.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

Many books deal with divorce and its aftermath -- some deal with the impact of divorce on children and families, others with the legal or sociological aspects of divorce, and a few focus on divorced mothers and fathers.

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This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health and wellbeing level.

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary and global overview of evidence-based sexuality education (SE) programs and practices.

Youth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 15-25) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically.

This book introduces emotion focused family therapy (EFFT) as an evidence-based intervention for children through the integration of parent trauma treatment and emotion-focused techniques.

The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we're using it, and its impact on our health?

The study of cyberbullying has exploded since its first appearance in a peer-reviewed journal article in 2005.

This volume contains the papers presented at the eighteenth Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, held October 27-29, 1983, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Through the evaluation and integration of developmental theories, this volume proposes a new structural/behavioral model of development.

Feeling a disconnect in your sex life?

This comprehensive text is organized into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of the history, development, and theory of the model, and its specific applications to treatment, training, assessment, and research.

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.

One of the most difficult things parents of babies and young children have to deal with are tears.

When a Black, Indigenous, or racialized individual or relationship works with a sex therapist, a host of cultural circumstances can contribute to intimacy discord and sexual dysfunction.

This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain.

Romantic relationship formation and the engagement in sexual behaviors are normative and salient developmental tasks for adolescents and young adults.

With a triadic perspective, this autoethnographic narrative explores the temporal, situated nature of interactions between the author as an adoptee with her adult adopted children as well as those between herself and her birth father and mother.

Isabelle Meier presents a unique examination of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, viewed through the lens of analytical psychology.