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Book reviewed in this article: Adolescent Therapy that Really Works: Helping Kids Who Never Asked for Help in the First Place . Janet Sasson Edgette Healing with Stories: Your Casebook Collection for Using Therapeutic Metaphors . George W. Burns (Ed.) Mastering Family Therapy: Journeys of Growth and Transformation . Salvador Minuchin, Wai‐Yung Lee, George M. Simon Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes . Francine Shapiro, Florence W. Kaslow and Louise Maxfield (Eds.) What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples . Sarah Fels Usher     

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Book reviewed in this article: 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy. George W. Burns Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy. Susan Johnson and Valerie Whiffen (Eds) An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy. Lorna L. Hecker and Joseph L. Wetchler (Eds) Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples — A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist. Rob Fisher The Practical Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy: Things My Training Supervisor Never Told Me. Mark Odell & Charles E. Campbell Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers. Luciano L'Abate (Ed.) The Therapy Triangle: Empowering You with the Knowledge to Heal Emotional Cutoff: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives. Peter Titelman (Ed.) Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory. Peter Titelman (Ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials; Whispers from the East Frances E. Steinberg and Richard G. Whiteside Risky Practices: A Counsellor's Guide to Risk Management in Private Practice; Nigel McBride & Michael Tunnecliffe Therapeutic and Training Tools from St. Luke's Parenting between Cultures: The Primary Years: A Program for Parents from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities; Catherine Blunt. Marymead Child and Family Centre, Kingston ACT, 2000 Bringing Up Boys, A Parenting Manual for Sole Mothers Raising Sons; Jo Howard Mothers and Sons; Bringing up Boys as a Sole Parent; Jo Howard Treating Huckleberry Finn; David Nylund. Jossey‐Bass Family Secrets: Gay Sons — A Mother's Story; Jean M. Baker Lesbian Step‐Families: An Ethnography of Love; Janet M. Wright ‘Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning’. Using Popular Movies in Psychotherapy; John & Jan G. Hesley     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Many‐Sided Triangle: Adoption in Australia. Audrey Marshall and Margaret McDonald Creating Resilient Families, A Resource Kit for Schools and Counsellors. Andrew Fuller Family Therapy: A Constructive Framework. Roger Lowe To the Heart of the Matter: Brief Therapies. Bert Hellinger Brief Therapy: Lasting Impression. Jeffrey Zeig (Ed.) ‘It is a New Kind of Diaspora’: Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis. Riccardo Steiner Tradition, Change and Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on Aspects of British Psychoanalysis. Riccardo Steiner Invisible Men: Engaging and Inspiring Men in Therapy. D. Grove (with R. Burnaugh) Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy. Edited by Anne M. Prouty Lyness (Ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context. Louise B. Silverstein & Thelma Jean Goodrich (Eds) How it Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent: A Book by Kids for Kids of all Ages. Judith Snow The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care. Lesley Day & Denis Flynn (Ed.) Children's Solutions Work. Insoo Kim Berg and Therese Steiner Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy. Froma Walsh (Ed.) In the Firing Line: Violence and Power in Child Protection Work. Janet Stanley and Chris Goddard Sperm Wars: The Rights and Wrongs of Reproduction Heather Grace Jones and Maggie Kirkman (Eds) The Work/Life Collision. Barbara Pocock, Annandale, NSW, The Federation Press     

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Book reviewed in this article: Healing with Stories: Your Casebook Collection for Using Therapeutic Metaphors . George W. Burns (Ed.) What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples . Sarah Fels Usher.     

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Book reviewed in this article: From Tragedy to Challenge: The Impact of Disabilities on Families Mei Shackleton Working with Children and Parents through Separation and Divorce: The Changing Lives of Children; Emilia Dowling and Gill Gorell Barnes Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent; D. Anastasopoulos, E. Laylou‐Lignos and M. Waddell (Eds). Girl X Recreated: Hopes and Dreams of Young People; Leeanne Rowe (Ed.)     

Book Reviews

Family Ties and Aging. Ingrid Arnet Connidis. Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works. Francine M. Deutsch. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued. Ann Crittenden. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Nancy F. Cott. Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. Madonna Harrington Meyer, ed. Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall, eds. From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate (2nd ed). Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, and Robert M. Franklin. Gay and Lesbian Parenting. Deborah F. Glazer and Jack Drescher (eds.). Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families. John P. Bartkowski.     

Independent Comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials: The Graduate Diploma in Family Centred Practice,Monash University

Book reviewed in this article: Brief Therapy for Couples: W. Kim Halford NY Domestic Violence in Australia: The Legal Response, 3rd edn.: Renata Alexander Intimacy & Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence.: Stephanie Dowrick Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy: A Practitioner's Casebook of Therapeutic Insights, Perceptions, and Breakthroughs: David A. Bastiste Jr. (Ed.). Comparative Treatments for Relationship Dysfunction: Frank M. Dattilio Women's Stories of Divorce at Childbirth: When the Baby Rocks the Cradle: Hilary Hodge Recreating Partnership: A Solution Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy.: Phillip Ziegler and Tobey Hiller But Facts Exist: An Enquiry into Psychoanalytic Theorizing: Thomas Freeman Refugees: Living on the Margins: Helen Pavlin     

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Book reviewed in this article: Fighting Your Dark Shadow: Managing Depression With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy : Therrie Rosevald and Tian P.S. Oei, illustrated Adolescent Therapy that Really Works: Helping Kids Who Never Asked for Help in the First Place : Janet Sasson Edgette Mastering Family Therapy: Journeys of Growth and Transformation : Salvador Minuchin, Wai-Yung Lee, George M. Simon, Hoboken What is This Thing Called Love? A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples : Sarah Fels Usher     

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Book reviewed in this article: Zeitschrift fuer Systemische Therapie Treating Postnatal Depression: A Psychological Approach for Health Care Practitioners Jeanette Milgrom, Paul R. Martin and Lisa M. Negri. Families and Adoption H. E. Gross and M. B. Sussman (Eds) Treatment Approaches With Suicidal Adolescents James K. Zimmerman and Gregory M. Asnis (Eds) Death and the Adolescent: A Resource Book for Bereavement Support Groups in Schools Grant Baxter and Wendy Stuart. I Am Jack; Susanne Gervay. Therapeutic Stories Barry Bowen and Gary Robinson (Eds) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey. Emotions: Experiences in Existential Psychotherapy and Life F. Strasser.     

Book Reviews

Family and Society in American History. Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men. Walking a Tightrope: Meeting the Challenges of Work and Family. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives From the Lives of African‐American and Jewish Women. Talk of Love: How Culture Matters.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Psychology and Psychiatry: Integrating Medical Practice Jeannette Milgrom, Graham D. Burrows (Eds.) Systhema — Opinion, Exchange, Discussions. Edition 3: 2000 — Disability, Illness, Death. Institut für Familientherapie Weinheim/Germany Memory in Dispute Valerie Sinason (Ed.) Women Who Sexually Abuse Children: From Research to Clinical Practice Jacqui Saradjian in association with Helgar Hanks Culture and Mental Health: A Southern African View Leslie Swartz The Learning about Myself (LAMS) Program for At‐Risk Parents: Learning from the Past — Changing the Future Verna Rickard, Binghamton The Learning about Myself (LAMS) Program for At‐Risk Parents: Handbook for Group Participants Verna Rickard, Binghamton Family Counselling and Therapy 3rd edn Arthur M. Horne (Ed.) Beyond Belief: Psychotherapy and Religion Samuel Stein (Ed.) Couples and the Tao of Congruence Barbara Jo Brothers (Ed.) Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists Joan Laird, Robert‐Jay Green (Eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Family Therapy: An Intimate Memoir L. Hoffman Women Working and Training in Australia in Psychiatry; Carolyn Quadrio Sexwise: What every Young Person and Parent should Know about Sex; Dr Janet Hall, illustrated by Bettina Guthridge The Outrageous Adventurers… And How they Turned Sad Beginnings into Happy Endings; Kris, Stacey, Marli, Jessica, Jason, Loz, Donna, Daniel, Lannii, Sweets, Matais, Lawrence, Amie, Melissa, Anne, Katherine, Cassie and Selina Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course; D. L. Smith Making Stepfamilies Work: A Course for Couples. Leaders' Manual; Irene Gerrard & Margaret Howden Disrupted Families: The Law; Stephanie Charlesworth, J. Neville Turner, Lynne Foreman Impossible Love, Or Why the Heart must Go Wrong; Jan Bauer Love's Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships; Bert Hellinger, Gunthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont Acknowledging What Is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger; Bert Hellinger and Gabriele ten Hoevel     

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Book reviewed in this article: Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy Ed. David A. Paré and Glenn Larner Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice. Sharlene Nagy Hesse‐Biber and Patricia Leavy Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide. S. Goss & K. Anthony (Eds) Gene—Environment Processes in Social Behaviours and Relationships. K. Deater‐Deckard & S.A. Petrill (Eds) Bodywise: A Family Group Program for Child Obesity. Kristine Moxley, Simone Abbott, Lisa Clement, Ben Schueler, Vanessa Richardson. Child & Adolescent Development Unit, Blue Mountains District Anzac Memorial Hospital, Wentworth Area Health Service Mates Traits Cards.; Conceived by Russell Deal, illustrated by Mat Jones, and edited by Karen Masman Our Scrapbook of Strengths.; St Luke's Innovative Resources and Family Action Centre Stones… have Feelings Too!; Conceived by Russell Deal, illustrated by Ray Bowler, and edited by Karen Masman Toddler Taming. Rev. edn. Christopher Green Toddler Taming Tips. Christopher Green Great Ideas for (Tired) Parents. Michael Grose One Step Ahead: Raising 3–12 Year Olds. Rev. edn. Michael Grose Every Kid (Parenting Your 5 to 12 Year Old). Brent Waters and Liz Kennedy Exploring the Unsaid: Creativity, Risks, and Dilemmas in Working Cross‐Culturally. Barry Mason & Alice Sawyerr (Eds) Family Health Social Work Practice. F. K. Yuen, G. J. Skibinski, & J.T. Pardeck (Eds) Social Work in the Health Field, 2nd edn. L.A. Fort Cowles     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sheila's Book: A Shared Journey Through Madness Sheila Harvey (Ed.) Taunton, Somerset, Somerset Virtual College NHS Publications Case Book for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach S. H. McDaniel, D. Lusterman and C. Philpot Treating Difficult Couples: Helping Clients with Coexisting Mental and Relationship Disorders. Douglas K. Snyder & Mark A. Whisman (Eds) Art Therapy Practice: Innovative Approaches with Diverse Populations. Harriet Wadeson Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention, 3rd edn. Lorraine M. Wright & Maureen Leahey Family Nursing Interviewing Skills: How to Engage, Assess, Intervene and Terminate with Families. Lorraine M. Wright & Maureen Leahey Calgary Family Assessment Model: How to Apply in Clinical Practice Systems and Meaning: Consulting in Organisations. Gitte Haslebo and Kit Sanne Nielsen, transl. by Dorte Herholdt Silver Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars. Suzanne K. Steinmetz and Gary W. Peterson (Eds) Emotions and the Family. Richard A. Fabes (Ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family Duong Van Mai Elliott, Cross‐Cultural Practice With Couples and Families Phillip Brown and John Shalett (Eds) Context: A Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice The Answer Within: A Family in Therapy Re‐Examined Moshe Lang and Peter McCallum. Time Bombs in Families and How to Survive Them Averil Earnshaw. Relationships into the New Millennium 1999: Papers to Celebrate 50 years of Relationships Australia Gail Bateman and D. Lamont. Narrative Counseling in Schools: Powerful and Brief: Practical Skills for Counselors J. Winslade And G. Monk. You Just Don't Listen: A Parent's Guide to Improving Communication Suzie Hayman.     

Book Reviews

Family Experiences With Mental Illness. Richard Tessler and Gail Gamache. Close Relationships: A Sourcebook. Clyde Hendrick and Susan S. Hendrick (Eds.). Family Observational Coding Systems. Patricia K. Kerig and Kristin M. Lindahl (Eds.). Families and Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions (2nd ed.). Patrick C. McKenry and Sharon J. Price (Eds.). Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies. Sharon K. Houseknecht and Jerry G. Pankhurst (Eds.). Nurturing Success: Successful Women of Color and Their Daughters. Essie E. Lee. Beyond Gender Differences: Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective. Laurie Russell Hatch. Becoming a Family: Parents' Stories and Their Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research. Rena D. Harold, Lisa G. Colarossi, Lucy R. Mercier, Patricia Stow Bolea, Carol R. Freedman‐Doan, Susan A. Lynch, Margaret L. Palmiter, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. The Ties That Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation. Linda J. Waite (Ed.).     

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Book reviewed in this article: Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family HealthCare Published quarterly by Families, Systems & Health, Inc. Creative Encounters With Families: The Personal Journey of a Family Therapist No Lost Certainties to be Recovered; G. Kohon The Welfare of Children with Mentally Ill Parents, Learning from International Comparisons; R. Hetherington, K. Baistow, I. Katz, J. Mesie and J. Trowell Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation; John Rowan There is No Such Thing as a Therapist: An Introduction to the Therapeutic Process; Carol A.V. Holmes