This book examines power and sexuality in intimate relationships with a specific focus on sexual difficulties and symptoms. Family therapy, couples therapy and empirical studies have contributed to our understanding but there has been a tendency to focus explanations at personal and the relationship level. Feminist perspectives in contrast have revealed the importance of exploring societal factors, such as structural inequalities and prevalent assumptions about gender sexuality but have offered less detailed analysis of the diversity of the 'inner world' of couples, for example the various ways in which sexuality comes to function as a 'bargaining counter' in relationships.The book attempts to redress this by offering an integration of feminist perspectives with detailed illustrations of the dynamics of intimate relationships. A variety of evidence including the authors' own clinical work and their recent research is presented to consider how symptoms, including sexual problems, may evolve as a way of balancing power in intimate relationships. Extensive illustrations are presented including personal accounts, case studies and details of therapeutic work and change.

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Self-Help

Dallos

Open University

Researching Psychotherapy and Counselling

What are the benefits of conducting research while practising? Which research methods are most suitable for busy practitioners? How can practitioners weave research into their everyday practice without it becoming a burdensome add-on? What practical and ethical considerations should counsellors and therapists take into account when researching?  This book focuses on the issues facing practising clinicians wishing to engage in research. It outlines approaches involving both clients and other professionals in the research and argues for approaches that combine an exploration of the experience as well as the effectiveness of therapies.  With an emphasis on ‘do-able’ research, the book examines the dilemmas and challenges for clinicians in recruiting participants and combining research with clinical practice, and includes step-by-step guides to doing research projects.  Key topics covered include:  Collaborative research The ethics of research Mixed methods of research (qualitative and quantitative) Suitable research methods for busy clinicians Practice-based evidence and evidence-based practice  Written by authors with extensive experience of research teaching with clinicians, Researching Psychotherapy and Counselling provides a rigorous, yet practical guide for trainee and practising counsellors, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists, as well as allied mental health professionals.

Researching psychotherapy and counselling

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Open University Press

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<li> What are some of the central connections between narrative, systemic and attachment therapies?</li> <li> How do early emotional experiences in families shape our narratives about ourselves and our families?</li> <li> In what ways do family attachments shape our narrative abilities, such as being able to reflect on and integrate our experiences? </li>
</ul> This book sets out a framework for practice – Attachment Narrative Therapy – that provides a new approach to working with families, couples and individuals. This is not offered as a prescriptive model but as an aid and guide to practice that draws aspects of narrative and attachment therapy into systemic work. The synthesis of these ideas offers clinicians a new integrative way to approach their practice – one in which the three approaches are used to create a greater whole than their constituent parts. The book includes:
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<li> Clinical examples </li> <li> Personal reflections</li> <li> Frameworks for clinical practice</li> <li> Therapeutic guides that include details of the application of core techniques</li> <li> Extensive reading guides that offer connections to related theory and practice</li>
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Attachment Narrative Therapy is essential reading for a wide variety of therapists and counsellors along with researchers and trainers in those fields. It also provides insight into good practice for health and social welfare professionals in the area of family and child welfare.

Attachment narrative therapy

Addiction & Recovery

This invaluable contribution to working with families, whether as a family therapist, clinician or parent, offers insight into how problems for families and children arise and what can help. 
Don't Blame the Parents explores the ubiquitous issue of blame and responsibility in families, especially of parents feeling blamed for causing or exacerbating problems. The book examines problems that we all encounter in family relationships, whether with children's behaviour, marital anxiety, or not feeling like we are the effective parent that we intend to be. Blame can restrict our ability as therapists, clinicians and family members to explore family dynamics and responsibility for emerging problems in a constructive and progressive way. It can prevent exploration of family dynamics and of finding workable options for long-term positive change and better understanding the role of the family unit. 
The book draws on attachment and systemic perspectives on family therapy to support the view that parents generally intend to repeat or correct positive childhood experiences, while exploring why these intentions may become derailed. Seminal and contemporary research as well as clinical cases feature, all with an eye to fostering positive and responsible families. 
"Rudi Dallos offers us a thoughtful and helpful deconstruction of the crucial ethical and therapeutic differences between blame and responsibility in family life. Drawing on his integration of trauma theory and attachment theory with systemic theory and practice, he explores the vexed questions of causality, context and intergenerational influences in the understanding and alleviation of distress in close relationships." 
Arlene Vetere, Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway

Don't Blame the Parents: Positive Intentions, Scripts and Change in Family Therapy

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Researching psychotherapy and counselling

Attachment narrative therapy

Don't Blame the Parents: Positive Intentions, Scripts and Change in Family Therapy