Book Reviews

Book reviewed of this article:
Alan Cooklin, Brenda McHugh and Neil Dawson (Marlborough Family Service), Family Therapy Basics: An Interactive Distance Learning Package 1994.
Richard R. Kopp, Metaphor Therapy—Using Client Generated Metaphors in Psychotherapy.
Anne McFadyen, Special Care Babies and Their Developing Relationships.
Kedar N. Dwivedi and Ved P. Varma (eds), Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children.
Suman Fernando (ed.), Mental Health in a Multi-ethnic Society.
Katherine P. H. Young, Understanding Marriage. A Hong Kong Case Study.
Naomi Dale, Working with the Families of Children with Special Needs
Emilia Dowling and Elsie Osborne, The Family and the School. AJoint Systems Approach to Problems with Children.     

Book reviews

Margaret Robinson, Family Transformation Through Divorce and Remarriage. A Systemic Approach
Froma Walsh and Monica McGoldrick (eds), Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Rudi Dallos, Family Belief Systems, Therapy and Change
Lone Jacobsen and Peter Vesti, Torture Survivors – A New Group of Patients
W. Robert Beavers and Robert B. Hampson, Successful Families: Assessment and Intervention
Gregory Max Vogt and Stephen T. Sirridge, Like Son, Like Father: Healing the Father–Son Wound in Men's Lives
Douglas Hooper and Windy Dryden (eds), Couple Therapy: A Handbook. Open University Press Psychotherapy Handbook Series
Peter Stratton, Michael Preston-Shoot and Helga Hanks, Family Therapy: Training and Practice     

Book reviews

Alan S. Gurman and David P. Kniskern (eds), The Handbook of Family Therapy, volume II
Joseph Nowinski, Substance Abuse in Adolescents and Young Adults
Constance Hammen, Depression Runs in Families: The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers
Robert Sherman, Paul Oresky and Yvonne Rountree, Solving Problems in Couples and Family Therapy: Techniques and Tactics     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Lynn Hoffman, Family Therapy: An Intimate History
Ned L. Gaylin, Family, Self and Psychotherapy: A Person–centred Perspective
Roy Resnikoff, Bridges for Healing. Integrating Family Therapy and Psychopharmacology
John Sharry, Solution–Focused Groupwork
S.H. McDaniel, D.D. Lusterman and C. Philpot (eds), Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach
Carole Kayrooz, A Systemic Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa
George W. Burns, 101 Healing Stories. Using Metaphors in Therapy
Marcia Sheinberg and Peter Frankel, The Relational Trauma of Incest: A Family Based Approach to Treatment     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed of this article:
Chris Mace (ed.), The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy.
David de Vaus, Letting Go: Relationships between Adults and their Parents.
Steve de Shazer, Words Were Originally Magic.
Alan Carr Positive Practice: A Step-By-Step Guide to Family Therapy.
Jacques Miermont, The Dictionary of Family Therapy , (1987); edited and revised by Hugh Jenkins .     

Book reviews

Eddy Street and Windy Dryden, Family Therapy in Britain
E. Imber-Black, J. Roberts and R. Whiting, Rituals in Families and Family Therapy
Arnon Bentovim, Anne Elton, Judy Hildebrand, Marianne Tranter, and Eileen Vizard. Child Sexual Abuse Within The Family; Assessment and Treatment
David Campbell, Ros Draper and Clare Huffington, Teaching Systemic Thinking
R. Hinde and J. Stcvenson-Hinde, Relationships within Families: Mutual Influences
Sue Walrond-Skinner, Family Matters: The Pastoral Care of Personal Relationships
Thelma Jean Goodrich, Cheryl Rampage, Barbara Ellman and Kris Halstead, Feminist Family Therapy: A Casebook
Lyman, C. Wynne, The State of the Art in Family Therapy: Controversies and Recommendations
J. Carpenter and A. Treacher, Problems and Solutions in Marital and Family Therapy
David Howe, The Consumer's View of Family Therapy
Marion F. Solomon, Narcissism and Intimacy: Love and Marriage in an Age of Confusion
W. H. O'Hanlon and M. Weiner-Davis, In Search of Solutions     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
L. Day and P. Pringle (eds), Pringle Reflective Enquiry into Therapeutic Institutions
E. Mark Cummings, Patrick T. Davies and Susan B. Campbell , Developmental Psychopathology and Family Process. Theory, Research and Clinical Implications
Rachael Hetherington, Karen Baistow, I. Katz, J. Mesie and J. Trowel , The Welfare of Children with Mentally Ill Parents. Learning from Inter-Country
K.H. Brisch , Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy     

The Role of the Family Therapist in Divorce: Benevolent Healer or Agent of Social Change?

Essay Review of:
The Dynamics of Divorce: A Life Cycle Perspective , F. W. Kaslow and L. L. Schwartz, New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1987.
Divorced Families: A Multidisciplinary Developmental View , C. R. Ahrons and R. H. Rodgers, New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.
The Difficult Divorce: Therapy for Children and Families , M. B. Isaacs, B. Montalvo, and D. Abelson, New York: Basic Books, 1986.     

Book reviews

David Campbell and Rosalind Draper (Eds), Applications of Systemic Family Therapy. The Milan Approach
Bryan Lask, Children's Problems
Bretherton, Inge and Waters, Everett (Eds), Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research
Christine Sandford and Wyn Beardsley, Making Relationships Work
Elaine Campbell, The Childless Marriage: An Exploratory Study of Couples Who Do Not Want Children
Kayla F. Bernheim and Anthony F. Lehman, Working with Families of the Mentally III
Geoffrey Barlow and Alison Hill (Eds), Video Violence and Children
David H. Olson and Roxanne Markoff (Eds), Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature , Vol. XI 1984
Steve de Shazer, Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy
Fortune Ann E. and contributors, Task-Centered Practice with Families and Groups
Adrian L. James and Kate Wilson, Couples, Conflict and Change
Sue Walrond-Skinner, A Dictionary of Psychotherapy
Nossrat Peseschkian, Positive Family Therapy–The Family as Therapist
Joan J. Zilbah, Young Children in Family Therapy
Tesse and Moshe Lang, Corrupting the Young and Other Stories of a Family Therapist
S. Slipp, Object Relations: A Dynamic Bridge Between Individual and Family Treatment
Philip Barker, Basic Family Therapy
J. Tunnard (Ed.), Promoting Links: Keeping Children and Families in Touch     

Book reviews

Douglas C. Breunlin, Richard C. Schwartz and Betty MacKune-Karrer, Metaframeworks: Transcending the Models of Family Therapy
John Walter and Jane Peller, Becoming Solution-Focused in Brief Therapy
Satoru Saitoh, Peter Steinglass and Marc A. Schuckit (eds), Alcoholism and the Family
Celia Dulfano, Families, Alcoholism and Recovery     

Book reviews

Steve de Shazer, Putting Difference to Work
David S. Freeman, Multigenerational Family Therapy
Dora Black, Stephen Wolkind and Jean Harris-Hendricks (eds), Child Psychiatry and the Law
Ian Mallinson, The Children Act. A Social Care Guide
Wen-Sing Tseng and Jing Hsu, Culture and Family: Problems and Therapy     

Book reviews

Jay Haley, Ordeal Therapy: Unusual Way to Change Behaviour
S. Murgatroyd and R. Woolfe, Helping Families in Distress: An Introduction to Family Focussed Helping
Emilia Dowling and Elsie Osborne (Eds), The Family and the School—A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children
C. J. Brown et al. Treating the Remarried Family
Jean Campion, The Child in Context—Family Systems in Educational Psychology
I. R. H. Falloon et al., Family Management of Schizophrenia: A Study of Clinical, Social, Family and Economic Benefits
Linda Scotson, Doran, Child of Courage     

Book Reviews

Robin Skynner and John Cleese, Families and How to Survive Them .
S. Minuchin and C. Fishman, Family Therapy Techniques .
Arnold A. Lazarus, The Practice of Multimodal Therapy .
Brian Grant, Conciliation and Divorce—a Father's Letters to His Daughter .
M. Hersen, R. M. Eisler and P. M. Miller (Eds), Progress in Behaviour Modification .
R. E. McMullin and T. R. Giles, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy—a Restructuring Approach .
Arnon Bentovim, Gill Gorell Barnes and Alan Cooklin (Eds) Family Therapy: Complementary Frameworks of Theory and Practice .     

Book reviews

Larry L. Constantine, Family Paradigms. The Practice of Theory in Family Therapy
Arnon Bentovim, Gill Gorell Barnes and Alan Cooklin (Eds) Family Therapy: Complementary Frameworks of Theory and Practice
Jean Shapiro, A Child: Tour Choice
William C. Nichols and Craig A. Everett. Systemic Family Therapy–An Integrative Approach
W. H. O'Hanlon and J. Wilk, Shifting Contexts: The Generation of Effective Psychotherapy
R. Julian Hafner, Marriage and Mental Illness: A Sex Role Perspective
Penny Jaques, Understanding Children's Problems, Helping Families to Help Themselves
Edward M. Waring, Enhancing Marital Intimacy through Facilitating Cognitive Self-disclosure
David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, Object Relations Family Therapy
C. Whitaker and W. Bumberry, Dancing with the Family, A Symbolic Experiential Approach     

REVIEWS

VIEW FROM WITHIN: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS A SOURCE OF THEORY AND SCHOLARSHIP
Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality , O ljva M. E spin .
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG LESBIANS AND GAY MEN: VIEWS THROUGH THE KALEIDOSCOPE
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men , B everly G reene (Ed.).
Growing Up in a Lesbian Family: Effects on Child Development , F iona L. T asker and S usan G olombok .
TRYING TO TURN DICHOTOMY INTO CONTINUITY: EXPLORATIONS OF MOTHERHOOD
Representations of Motherhood , D onna B assin , M argaret H oney , and M eryle M ahrer K aplan (Eds.).
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood , S haron H ays .
EQUALITY AND THE FAMILY: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE
Marital Equality: Its Relationship to the Well-Being of Husbands and Wives , J anice M. S teil .
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a 'Wife'! , J o V an E very .
LIFE-TIES AND SELF-ESTEEM: SURVEY AND INTERVIEWS
Gender, Identity, and Self-Esteem: A New Look at Adult Development , D eborah Y. A nderson and C hristopher L. H ayes .
FEMINIST THERAPY REVISITED
Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives , M arcia H ill and E sther D. R othblum (Eds.).
Feminist Perspectives in Therapy: An Empowerment Model for Women , J udith W orell and P am R emer .     

Book reviews

Jeffrey K. Zeig, Experiencing Erickson: An Introduction to the Man and his Work David Will and Robert M. Wrate, Integrated Family Therapy, a Problem-centred Psycho-dynamic Approach Sandra B. Coleman (Ed.), Failures in Family Therapy John B. Burnham, Family Therapy: First Steps Towards a Systemic Approach Stephen R. Lankton and Carol H. Lankton, Enchantment and Intervention in Family Therapy. Training in Eriksonian Approaches Rochdale Health Visitors, Child Abuse: Are You Safe? Colin Murray Parkes and Dora Black (Journal Eds), Bereavement Care John Howard and Graham Shepherd (Eds), Conciliation, Children and Divorce. A Family Systems Approach P. Watchtel and E. Watchtel, Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy Joy K. Rice and David G. Rice, Living Through Divorce: A Developmental Approach to Divorce Therapy Larry L. Constantine, Family Paradigms. The Practice of Theory in Family Therapy Robert N. Rapoport (Ed.), Children, Youth, and Families: The Action-Research Relationship     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Jenny Altschuler, with Barbara Dale and John Byng-Hall, Working withChronic Illness
Michael White, Narratives of Therapists' Lives
Gill Gorrell Barnes, Paul Thompson, Gwyn Daniel and Natasha Burchardt, Growing up in Stepfamilies
Pauline Sutcliffe, Guinevere Tufnell and Ursula Cornish (eds), Workingwith the Dying and Bereaved
Janice W. Nadeau, Families Making Sense of Death
Robert Geffner (ed.), Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
Jana L. Jasinski and Linda M. Williams (eds), Partner Violence: AComprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research
Ian Wilkinson, Child and Family Assessment: Clinical Guidelines forPractitioners


     

Book reviews

Stephen Gilligan and Reese Price, Therapeutic Conversations
Jean Harris Hendriks, Dora Black and Tony Kaplan, When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children through Trauma and Grief
John Carpenter and Andy Treacher (eds), Using Family Therapy in the Nineties     

Reviews

PRACTICE WITH LESBIANS AND BISEXUAL WOMEN: PERSPECTIVES FROM HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK
Treating Lesbians and Bisexual Women: Challenges and Strategies for Health Professionals , E lisabeth P age G ruskin .
Lesbians & Lesbian Families: Reflections on Theory and Practice , J oan L aird (Ed.).
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: SEX AND GENDER IN COUNSELING PRACTICE
Gender and Sex in Counseling and Psychotherapy , L ucia A lbino G ilbert and M urray S cher .
NONTRADITIONAL THERAPY FOR TRADITIONAL MEN
A New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men , G ary R. B rooks .
WORTHWHILE MISTAKES
Learning from Our Mistakes: Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy , M arcia H illand E sther D. R othblum (Eds.).
CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF VICTIM-FEMINISM
New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concepts , S haron L amb .
TRANSFORMING PSYCHOLOGY, TRANSFORMING OURSELVES
Women and Gender: Transforming Psychology , J anice D. Y oder .
WHO WILL WIN THE SEX DIFFERENCE BATTLE?
Sex and Cognition , D oreen K imura .     

Book Reviews

Andy Treacher and John Carpenter (eds.): Using Family Therapy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

Robert de Board: Counselling People at Work. Farnborough: Gower, 1983.

Ellen Noonan: Counselling Young People. London: Methuen, 1983.