Demonstrates the authors' positive approach to couples treatment. Rather than focusing merely on correcting specific relationship problems, they work with both partners to help them achieve a shared identity as a couple - an identity that centers on their vision for the future, not on issues solely from the past.
Describes a session the author had with a couple who have been stuck in an impasse for several months. This session demonstrates the four stages of therapy - engagement, assessment, insight, and reorientation, using confrontation to help the couple to understand how they contribute to their own misery and guiding them to help realize satisfaction.
In "Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs", Dr. Don-David Lusterman demonstrates his empathic, psychoeducational approach to working with couples in which one partner has had an affair. Therapy begins with acknowledgement of the "victim" status of the partner who discovered the affair. Dr. Lusterman then works to restore trust and helps the ......
Young men who are searching for a treasure beg a famous retired sea captain to accompany them, hoping his presence will bring good luck on their journey. The captain's help while they cross dangerous seas teaches them that wisdom and good actions are more reliable than hope and fascination.
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.
Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative ......
A Guide for Working with Children and Their Families, Fourth Edition
This popular reference provides hard-to-find information and practical advice to professionals who are working with children and families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It includes facts about the influence of culture on people's beliefs, values, and behaviours; descriptions of the challenges families may have adapting to a ......
Mothering Challenging Adult Children through Conflict and Commitment
Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for the mothers who are confronted with the unexpected, burdensome, and even catastrophic dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment.Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers readable, ......
Mothering Challenging Adult Children Through Conflict and Change
A much-needed perspective on how to mother difficult adult children while balancing one's own needs. Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected, burdensome, and even catastrophic dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment. ......
