Routledge Series on Family Therapy and Counseling
About the Book Series
The Family Therapy and Counseling Series is devoted to providing practitioners and students with current information on specific topics relevant to marriage and family therapy, counseling, couples therapy, and child and adolescent therapy.
Forthcoming volumes in the series will explore immigrant families, aging, couples therapy, and parenting.
Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions: Inviting Relational Understandings for Therapeutic Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Karl Tomm, Sally St. George, Dan Wulff, Tom Strong
June 27, 2014
In this book we present a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The contributors of this edited book articulate the IPscope framework as it was originally designed and...
Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Kit S. Ng
March 21, 2014
Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends provides an overview of the development of the family and the issues and concerns they are faced with in different cultural contexts. Contributions from experts in the field expand on the different aspects on the historical ...
Behavioral Health: Integrating Individual and Family Interventions in the Treatment of Medical Conditions
1st Edition
By Len Sperry
August 16, 2013
In this age of accountability, and irrespective of whether they work in health-care settings or conventional mental health settings, all therapists will be increasingly expected to provide effective psychosocial treatment to individuals and families who face co-morbid medical conditions. Statistics...
Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith V. Jordan, Jon Carlson
July 23, 2013
Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT) is developed to accurately address the relational experiences of persons in de-valued cultural groups. As a model, it is ideal for work with couples: it encourages active participation in relationships, fosters the well-being of everyone involved, and acknowledges ...
Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine M. Helm, Jon Carlson
April 16, 2013
This exciting new text on counseling African American couples outlines critical components to providing culturally-sensitive treatment. Built around a framework that examines African American couples’ issues as well as the specific contextual factors that can negatively impact their relationships, ...
Couples in Collusion: Short-Term, Assessment-Based Strategies for Helping Couples Disarm Their Defenses
1st Edition
By Dennis A. Bagarozzi
August 15, 2012
When a couple enters therapy, both partners have either explicit or implicit understandings of what can—and, more importantly, cannot—be discussed in therapy. Even when empirically tested assessments are used to help pinpoint areas of concern and conflict, couples may choose to identify only those ...
Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy: Practicing With 21st Century Realities
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul R. Peluso, Richard E. Watts, Mindy Parsons
May 11, 2012
As the baby boomers move into retirement and later stages of life, gerontology and geriatrics have begun to receive much more attention. Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy explores the ways in which family therapists’ expertise in systems theory makes them uniquely qualified to take a leading ...
Handbook of Counseling Military Couples
1st Edition
Edited
By Bret A Moore
January 27, 2012
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 ...
Case Studies in Couples Therapy: Theory-Based Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By David K. Carson, Montserrat Casado-Kehoe
August 17, 2011
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 ...
Poisonous Parenting: Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children
1st Edition
Edited
By Shea M. Dunham, Shannon B. Dermer, Jon Carlson
July 15, 2011
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 ...