Family Therapy and Counseling Series
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Couples in Collusion
Short-Term, Assessment-Based Strategies for Helping Couples Disarm Their Defenses
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
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...
Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy
Practicing With 21st Century Realities
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
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...
Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling
A Choice Theory and Reality Therapy Approach
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling explores the most difficult issues that people in the helping professions face when treating couples and provides concrete solutions for addressing them effectively. Using the revolutionary choice theory and reality therapy approaches to couples counseling,...
Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Handbook of Counseling Military Couples
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
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...
Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Family Assessment
Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies, 2nd Edition
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
In an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians. It covers more than one hundred assessment methods – both the most widely used strategies as well as those that are more specialized and issue-specific. Techniques...
Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Case Studies in Couples Therapy
Theory-Based Approaches
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
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...
Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Poisonous Parenting
Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children
Series: Family Therapy and Counseling
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...
Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge





