The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
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 ...
Creative Positions in Adult Mental Health: Outside In-Inside Out
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue McNab, Karen Partridge
April 10, 2014
This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice. The first section deconstructs the medical model with some of the current beliefs and practices shaping services whilst placing adult ...
Positions and Polarities in Contemporary Systemic Practice: The Legacy of David Campbell
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Barratt, Charlotte Burck, Ellie Kavner
January 01, 2013
This book provides a rich collection of the work that has been informed by the ideas of the eminent family therapist and clinical psychologist, Dr David Campbell who died in August 2009. Contributors are drawn from different fields and describe models they have developed for organizational ...
Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives
1st Edition
By Inga-Britt Krause
December 31, 2012
The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here, experienced systemic psychotherapists offer their reflections and thoughts on the issues of race, culture, and ethnicity in the therapeutic relationship. The aim is to ...
The Vibrant Family: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals
1st Edition
By Susanne Soborg Christensen
December 31, 2011
The Vibrant Family offers completely new and surprising approaches to parenthood. This book is not about child rearing, setting limits, or a specific way of communicating with children. It is about the ways in which well-being in our relationship is crucial to a good family life with confident and ...
The Vibrant Relationship: A Handbook for Couples and Therapists
1st Edition
Edited
By Mette Marie Davidsen, Kirsten Seidenfaden, Ros Draper, Piet Draiby
December 31, 2011
The book is divided into easy to grasp sections of theory and practical exercises. In the first part of the book, two of Denmark's most experienced practitioners in couples' therapy, psychologist Kirsten Seidenfaden and psychiatrist Piet Drailby, explain why we tend to get confused about love. In ...
Being with Older People: A Systemic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleanor Anderson, Glenda Fredman, Joshua Stott
December 31, 2010
The authors of this volume take as their starting point "striking moments" in their practice with older people, their families and other practitioners. They integrate these with current systemic thinking to offer new perspectives on working with older people in a range of physical health, mental ...
Mirrors and Reflections: Processes of Systemic Supervision
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Burck, Gwyn Daniel
December 31, 2010
In this volume, as the title indicates, the focus is on understanding and elaborating what might be said to be "going on" in supervision as well as further exploring what is distinctive about systemic supervision. Looking at processes within systemic supervision involves engaging with the different...
Race and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings: A Manual for Professionals
1st Edition
By Sumita Dutta, Reenee Singh
December 31, 2010
"Race" and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings is a practical resource for trainers who wish to work with the issues raised by racial and cultural diversity in their own agency settings. It is intended as an easy guide and a "hands-on" tool for practitioners (family therapists, clinical ...
Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
1st Edition
By Justine van Lawick, Martine Groen
December 31, 2009
The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven. However, it is not. People in family relations are more likely to be threatened, hit, kicked, raped or beaten up. Such violence in the domestic circle conjures up a lot of questions. The authors have been ...