With its combined focus on inclusion, social justice, and evidence-based practice, this book will help clinicians work with todays diverse families in effective, culturally responsive ways. The book examines several common interactional challenges that contemporary families face, such as co-parenting, divorce, intimate partner violence, and ......
Presents a comprehensive systemic approach to treating difficult divorce. Drawing on the integrative tradition that considers both individual and systemic processes, Dr Lebow describes strategies for intervention that show therapists how to calm individuals, couples, and families in distress, and help ease the transition to a new family structure.
... a well rounded road map for healing the trauma wounds... As a child psychiatrist with over 35 years of practice, I can only say I wish I had a guide like this when I was starting out. Highly recommended!"" - Scott Shannon, MD author of Mental Health for the Whole Child A step-by-step approach to trauma-informed treatment. This is the first ......
Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk
Meet the needs of today's diverse American families with the second edition of this cornerstone textbook for early childhood professionals. With timely NEW information on demographic changes, cultural and linguistic diversity, effects of the recession, and infant mental health.
Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatil
Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, this book shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.
Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatil
An examination of the world of borderline mothers and children. Dr Lawson describes four basic profiles of the borderline mother: the Waif Mother, the Hermit Mother, the Queen Mother and the Witch. She goes on to demonstrate how to cope with each of these types.
Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationshi
Got jealousy? Get joy! - through empathic compersion! What is compersion? What contexts promote or hinder its occurrence? Can we "learn" compersion, or at least invite more of it into our lives? Is compersion the "opposite" of jealousy as it is usually believed? Can learning about compersion have a wide social impact and play a role in ......
Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationshi
What is compersion? Is it the “opposite” of jealousy, as it is usually believed? Is it an emotion or a behavior? What causes it to arise and bloom? Can we “learn” compersion or invite more of it into our lives?
Based on her seminal research with consensually non-monogamous (CNM) individuals, Dr. Marie Thouin unravels these questions ......
A guide to parent participation in Non-violent Resistance (NVR) for pare
This book complements the Pavilion training pack designed for parent participation training in Non-violent Resistance, by making the model, its practice and powerful parent stories available to professionals, parents, foster carers and others who are supporting children and adolescents in a range of settings.
This innovative book focuses on helping high-risk adolescents and their families rapidly resolve long-standing difficulties. Matthew D. Selekman spells out a range of solution-focused strategies and other techniques, illustrating their implementation with vivid case examples. His approach augments individual and family sessions with collaborative ......
Provides the reader with principles to inform evaluation, formulation, and treatment in their work with parents. The book offers clinical examples followed by clinical formulations offering illustrations of the application of one approach to diverse clinical challenges.
Features new scholarship in children's emotion socialization and childhood aggression, and offers parenting interventions developed through the lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The authors recommend a holistic, process-oriented approach to support parents of aggressive children of varying ages.
