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Offers various approaches to parenthood. This book discusses the ways in which well-being in our relationship is crucial to a good family life with confident and balanced children. It includes practical and concrete tools to help you understand how you and your partner can learn to communicate and act in an accepting and close way.

This book stresses the importance of training the highest-quality family therapists. It includes invaluable 'how to...' guides on tried-and-tested methods of taking trainees through a programme of personal and professional development.

This book explores the challenges faced by managers and consultants working in large organisations. Based on methods first used in family therapy, it emphasises how connection, context, and communication can help them deal with issues such as change, leadership, and learning within today's complex work environment.

Attempts to bridge the gap between systemic understanding and dialogic understanding in therapy, which have some similarities, but also a whole array of differences. The most striking one is the very vantage point for observation each of them holds.

A book which will illuminate the learning process from the perspective of the teacher as well as the learner. The experiences of the various contributors will empower the reader to take more personal risks in their own learning.

A critical reflection on the ideas that have shaped systemic and family therapy over the last years.

In this book, the authors identify the therapist's values and beliefs which they describe as prejudices, they then identify the equivalent prejudices held by the family, and finally, they trace the ways a prejudice from one side affects the other and is, in turn, affected by the other.

This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The author makes sophisticated material accessible to a much wider range of practitioners than trained therapists.

This book describes the processes that shape organisational life and shows how managers can work together to help one another to work out their problems and develop their skills. The authors draw on their experiences of working with managers and in the group relations field.

Probing and perceptive about the relationships between clients and practitioners and between mental health professionals themselves, this volume offers both conceptually and practically a genuinely enriching and groundbreaking guide that points the way forward in a spirit of confidence and hope.

Until recently, systemic therapy has been identified with family therapy. This no longer applies; the systemic approach and its techniques can now be used - with profit - in therapy with individuals. This book introduces and describes the first adaptation of the systemic model to the individual context.