The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Systemic-Dialogical Therapy with Individuals: Finding One's Place
1st Edition
By Paolo Bertrando, Claudia Lini
August 28, 2025
In this book, Paolo Bertrando and Claudia Lini provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the systemic-dialogical approach, adapted to the ever-evolving requirements of modern-day therapy with individuals. Following on from the field-defining work Systemic Therapy with Individuals, and ...
Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation
1st Edition
By Ana Draper, Elisa Marcellino, Samantha Thomson
June 28, 2024
Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation provides a contextualised, research-based understanding of how to enhance and support the emotional health and well-being of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The framework presented in this book is ...
Systemic Perspectives in Mental Health, Social Work and Youth Care: A Relational Compass
1st Edition
By Anke Savenije, Justine van Lawick, Ellen Reijmers
December 30, 2022
Systemic Perspectives in Mental Health, Social Work and Youth Care describes the theoretical foundations of a systemic framework, or ‘systemic lens’, and how the counsellor, therapist, social worker or other health professional can apply these ground principles in therapeutic meetings with clients....
Psychotherapeutic Competencies: Techniques, Relationships, and Epistemology in Systemic Practice
1st Edition
By Laura Fruggeri, Francesca Balestra, Elena Venturelli
December 08, 2022
This book provides a clear and concise description of the multifaceted notion of psychotherapeutic competencies, building on years of research and training and informed by a systemic approach. Psychotherapeutic Competencies clearly describes methodological principles to guide both trainees and ...
Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy: Playful Collaborations with Children, Families and Networks
1st Edition
By Sabine Vermeire
December 01, 2022
Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy is an innovative book that details how clinicians can engage children, families and their networks in creative and collaborative relationships to elicit change within the context of trauma and violence. ...
Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice: New Critical Reflections
1st Edition
By Pietro Barbetta, Maria Esther Cavagnis, Inga-Britt Krause, Umberta Telfener
June 16, 2022
In Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice, the four co-authors come together to rhizomatically consider how systemic theories can be reinvigorated in the present day. This fascinating book uses the ideas and work of renowned anthropologist Gregory Bateson as a springboard from ...
The Times of Time: A Perspective on Time in Systemic Therapy and Consultation
1st Edition
By Luigi Boscolo, Paolo Bertrando
July 15, 2019
This is the most comprehensive study of the role of time in psychotherapy. It illustrates how time is experienced in different ways – individual time, family time, and social time – and how time can act as an invaluable metaphor in shaping clinical practice within a systemic approach, ...
The Heart of the Matter: Music and Art in Family Therapy
1st Edition
By Hilary Palmer
June 08, 2018
The Heart of the Matter invites therapists from all disciplines to consider the use of music and art in their work with families. It introduces systemic music and art ideas, giving clinical examples from practice, and a rationale for using each technique. Conversations with therapists who have ...
Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times
1st Edition
By Gill Gorell Barnes
October 25, 2017
This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War, and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to multiple ways of doing 'dad'. The book questions why fathers have been marginalised by therapists working with children and ...
Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
1st Edition
By Jim Wilson
September 05, 2017
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity of models designated to tackle diagnoses through focused technologies serve to minimize the human ...
Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond: Personal and Professional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Barratt, Wendy Lobatto
July 26, 2016
This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges this poses in order that they can grow and develop in healthy directions. It provides a systemic ...
Emotions and the Therapist: A Systemic-Dialogical Approach
1st Edition
By Paolo Bertrando
October 23, 2015
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client. This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this book, is developed in terms of emotional systems. An emotional system in therapy may be viewed as ...