* The AFT Annual Conference Reduced Price Bookstall * Titles
Please find below a selection of titles (over two pages) that have been chosen by people associated with the conference which we are currently offering at specially reduced prices.
Couple Therapy: The Basics
Our Price: £14.99 (with free UK delivery)
Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and those interested in becoming couple therapists can expect to ask.
Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy
Our Price: £19.95 (with free UK delivery)
The book considers the historical context of couple relationships, utilises research and psychoanalytic ways of thinking to further understanding for psychotherapists and interested parents, as well as offering a variety of therapeutic approaches to the specific needs of parents, whether as a couple, separated or single.
An Introduction To Family Therapy: Systemic Theory And Practice
Our Price: £33.50 (with free UK delivery)
The fifth edition of the bestselling An Introduction to Family Therapy provides an overview of the core concepts informing family therapy and systemic practice, covering the development of this innovative field from the 1950s to the present day.
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Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation
Our Price: £25.49 (with free UK delivery)
This book is essential reading for all practitioners working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. It will also be of interest to students and trainees of social work and other mental health disciplines, as well as other professionals seeking to understand the needs of this group.
A Practical Guide to Family Therapy: Structured Guidelines and Key Skills
Our Price: £29.99 (with free UK delivery)
Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families.
The EcoSystemic Return: An Anthology for Now
Our Price: £24.50 (with free UK delivery)
The EcoSystemic Return is an anthology of papers by and for systemic practitioners that uses an ecological, systemic lens to critically engage with environmental matters such as climate change and wider critical systemic implications. Several chapters address the urgent need for ecological considerations in our societal structures and decisions. Chapters also explore the challenging terrain of global health crises, particularly pandemics, using systems theory and new materialist thinking to understand our interconnected vulnerabilities and strengths.
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Our Price: £8.50 (with free UK delivery)
SAND TALK is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger’s cat. Most of all it’s about Indigenous thinking, and how it can save the world.
Rewilding Therapy: EcoSystemic Theory and Practice
Our Price: £23.50 (with free UK delivery)
This book by Chiara Fortina Santin shares stories from her own relationship with nature, from her family life. She offers poems as a method of reflection and going further in the relationship between her professional and personal selves.
Combining
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In ‘Combining’, Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity. Insisting on our collective responsibility to confront the looming threats to humanity’s survival, she advocates change through interconnectedness and challenges us to rethink our perspectives on relationships, community, and the very essence of being human.
The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies: Power, Politics, Change
Our Price: £21.75 (with free UK delivery)
Are you looking for a psychological therapy textbook with social justice at its centre? Just can′t seem to find a comprehensive textbook that aligns with your attitudes toward positive changes in psychological professions? This three-part book sets out the core principles for social justice in the psychological therapies.
Black Couples Therapy: Clinical Theory and Practice
Our Price: £23.75 (with free UK delivery)
This volume fills a void in the theory, research, and practice of couples therapy where clinicians have historically not been specifically trained to provide culturally responsive care when addressing the unique experiences and needs of Black couples. It aims to provide students, researchers, and allied mental health professionals with greater awareness, knowledge, and competency in working with Black couples. It assists therapists in developing a working alliance with Black couples and places an emphasis on cultivating environments that are instrumental to decreasing relationship distress and disconnection.
My Family Gallery: Deck of 100 illustrated cards & Brochure with suggestions for use.
Our Price: £42.99 (with free UK delivery)
The set includes: A deck of 100 projective cards for working with a metaphorical gallery of family photos and an explanatory brochure with suggestions for using the cards in settings of Individual therapy, Couples therapy, Family therapy or Group therapy (English).
Every Family Has A Story
Our Price: £9.99 (with free UK delivery)
With her usual warmth and wisdom, best-selling psychotherapist Julia Samuel explores the family: what we inherit and how we can change.
Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change
Our Price: £21.50 (with free UK delivery)
Global heating, catastrophic climate change and the growing reality of ecosystem damage and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. For the counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors who make up the talking therapy professions, these topics are increasingly coming up in their work.
Pretended: Schools and Section 28: Historical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives
Our Price: £16.50 (with free UK delivery)
Pretended will resonate with every lesbian and gay teacher who experienced Section 28 and will shock those who previously knew nothing about this law. Crucially, Pretended will explain to those who were lesbian and gay students during Section 28 why they never saw people like them in the curriculum, never had a role model and never had an adult in school to talk to about their identity.
Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
Our Price: £9.50 (with free UK delivery)
Outrageous! tells the full story: the background to the Act, how the press fanned the flames and what politicians said during debates, how protestors fought back to bring about the repeal of the law in the 2000s, and its eventual legacy.
Attachment Narrative Therapy: Applications and Developments
Our Price: £37.99 (with free UK delivery)
This textbook provides an up-to-date guide to the application of Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT), a model that combines concepts and techniques from systemic family therapy, narrative therapy and theory and attachment theory.
Variations in Sex Development: Medicine, Culture and Psychological Practice
Our Price: £41.99 (with free UK delivery)
Biological variations in sex development, also known as intersex, are greatly misunderstood by the wider public. This unique book discusses psychological practice in healthcare for people and families impacted by a range of ‘intersex’ variations.
Hospicing Modernity: Parting with Harmful Ways of Living
Our Price: £12.99 (with free UK delivery)
This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of.
Black Identities + White Therapies: Race, Respect + Diversity
Our Price: £20.99 (with free UK delivery)
This book is a wake-up call to the profession to develop more inclusive models of theory and practice, and to every counsellor, psychotherapist and counselling psychologist to review their professional practice and ensure a better fit between the aspirations and theories of their professional calling and the needs of our multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society today.
Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
Our Price: £7.99 (with free UK delivery)
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth. Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls―a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why…until they uncovered the secret that had haunted their childhood.
Loving, hating and Survival: Handbook for All Who Work with Troubled Children and Young People
Our Price: £19.99 (with free UK delivery)
First published in 1997, Living in the Global Society reflects on the fundamental concept of global economy as the driving force for development, and examines how ethical values can direct this towards the welfare of humankind in a future where peace will reign.
Between Sickness and Health: The Landscape of Illness and Wellness
Our Price: £31.44 (with free UK delivery)
Between Sickness and Health is about illness rather than disease, and recovery rather than cure. The book argues that illness is an experience, represented by the feeling that ‘I am not myself’. From the book’s phenomenological point of view, feelings of illness cannot be ‘unreal’ or ‘fake’, whatever their biological basis, nor need they be categorised as ‘physical’, ‘psychosomatic’ or ‘psychiatric’.
Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state
Our Price: £10.99 (with free UK delivery)
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty, provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges. Our resources have changed.