Dr Fran Vertue
I just HAD to write a review of this new book!
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Publication Title: Families as relationships.
Publication Author: R. M. Milardo & S. Duck (Eds.)
Publisher, year of publication: John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000.
This volume provides a wide-ranging look at family functioning from the particular perspective of personal relationships. The approach taken emphasises the functional, or process, nature of families rather than the structural or systemic approaches that have typically dominated family therapy. The chapters cover a wide range of relationships including parent-child, spousal, and relationships with people outside the family. As well as individual relationships, the various authors address family life cycle transitions such as the early years of marriage with the introduction of children, children growing up, divorce, and the inclusion of elderly parents into families. In this review, I will describe some of the aspects that I liked and some of the aspects I didn’t like.
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Publication Title: The Construction of the Self: A Developmental Perspective
Publication Author: Susan Harter
Publisher, year of publication: The Guilford Press, 1999.
This is a fairly dense text, written by the Professor of Psychology and Head of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of Denver in Colorado, USA. The book sets out to explore the important developmental goal of the cognitive and social construction of a sense of self that that increasingly becomes less dependant on external evaluations, and that represents a core set of inner attributes perceived to reflect one’s true self. Harter is strongly committed to a developmental approach to understanding human beings and this was the first aspect of the book that attracted me. She also presents good potted histories of the concepts she discusses, helping to put current thinking in the context of ideas from the past.
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Publication Title: Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy (4th edition)
Publication Author: Alan S Gurman (Editor)
Publisher, year of publication: Guilford Press, 2008.
This edited volume presents the core theoretical and applied concepts of Couple Therapy in modern clinical practice. The 736 pages cannot be reviewed in any kind of depth, so here is a brief overview of its structure and content.
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Publication Title: Key Papers from the Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Publication Author: Paul S Barrows (Editor)
Publisher, year of publication: Brunner-Routledge, 2004.
For a therapist working with children with varying degrees of disorder, it is sometimes difficult to engage children in cognitive work, even with the use of cognitive play techniques. In addition, some of the children we work with are emotionally damaged to the point that it is extremely difficult to draw out their emotional experience from their deeply protected selves.
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Publication Title: Your anxious child: How parents and teachers can relieve anxiety in children.
Publication Authors: John S. Dacey and Lisa B. Fiore.
Publisher, year of publication: Jossey-Bass, 2000.
This self-help book was written by John Dacey (who, according to PsycINFO, has published primarily in the area of creativity and intelligence in children) and Lisa Fiore (for whom, according to PsycINFO, this is a first publication). The authors nominate that their goal is to teach parents how to empower their children with coping skills that help to relieve anxiety in diverse situations.
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