Brings the issue of the therapeutic relationship in family systems therapy into focus, by examing the relationships between the client family as a system, and the use of self in therapy.

Based on the 1996 Family Law Act, this book looks at how the therapist can work with the different professions involved in a divorce, how children might be consulted, and ways in which vulnerable family members can be protected.

This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distills 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 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.

The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes traditional and contemporary theories and explains them in the context of how he works with children.

This work provides a rich mine of ideas to stimulate thinking about organizational interaction, and organizations in relation to various socio/cultural values.

Based on a research project which demonstrated the effectiveness of systemic therapy, this book can be used as the basis of a training programme in systemic couple therapy, as a phase in the treatment of depression. It describes in explicit detail the range of techniques used and can therefore also inform the next generation of research studies, which will be greatly facilitated by this work.

This new work looks at the dynamics of organizations from a social constructionist viewpoint, taking the organization as something that is constructed continuously through individual interactions with others, both within and without the organization.

The first contribution from the pioneering and innovative Marlborough Family Service to the 'Systemic Thinking and Practice' Series. The authors - each with over twenty years experience in the field - set out a timely and systematic account of their creatively developed work and its informing principles. They provide an absorbing and stimulating description, written in a clear and accessible style, of the evolution of their multiple family therapy and its applications.

Starting with the MacPherson Report and its pronouncements on racism in Britain and in particular 'institutionalised racism', Dr Krause focuses on the practice of family therapy and draws on her expertise as both anthropologist and systemic family psychotherapist to formulate a cogent critical evaluation of the field.