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Special Needs

Ackerman Institute is pleased to announce new family services for families with special needs children. Learn more about the project.

For Families

Upcoming lecture for parents and general audience-
Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Children and Teens Thrive
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Michael Ungar, Ph.D.

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Publications

The Ackerman Institute will receive a portion of the proceeds of every book you buy from the titles below.

Family Matters: A Guide to Parenting

Ackerman Institute for the Family Faculty

Ackerman Institute, (2000)

A collection of essays (by Ackerman Faculty), which originally appeared in PARENTGUIDE, August 1996–August 2000.

Working with Families of the Poor, Second Edition (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

Patricia Minuchin, Jorge Colapinto, Salvador Minuchin

Guilford, (1998)

Presents a clear and practical approach to working with underprivileged families.

Couple Therapy for Infertility

Ronny Diamond, David Kezur, Mimi Meyers, Constance Sharf, Margot Weinshel

Guilford, (1999)

Describes a unique therapeutic approach developed to treat couples confronting the painful challenge of infertility.

Families and Larger Systems: A Family Therapist's Guide Through the Labyrinth (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

Evan Imber-Black

Guilford, (1998)

Model for dealing with families and larger systems who have become embroiled with one another, and methods for working with families who must engage with larger systems across significant portions of their life cycle.

Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (The Master Work Series)

Evan Imber-Black, Janine Roberts

Harper Collins, 1992 Jason Aronson, (1998)

Learn to tap the power of rituals to mark transitions, express important values, heal the past, and deepen relationships.

Secrets in Families and Family Therapy

Evan Imber-Black

WW Norton, (1993)

Text for therapists on the impact of secrets in the therapeutic process.

The Secret Life of Families: Making Decisions About Secrets

Evan Imber-Black

Bantam, (1998)

Describes how to maintain a balance between candor and caution to ensure that secrets remain a creative rather than a destructive force in our lives.

Couples on the Fault Line: New Directions for Therapists

Peggy Papp, Editor

Guilford, (2000)

Presents a range of approaches to helping couples reconsider and reorder their life priorities.

The Process of Change (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

Peggy Papp, Stephen R. Shirk

Guilford, (1994)

A guide for students and practioners interested in exploring paradoxical and strategic interventions from a systems perspective.

The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Relationships

Marianne Walters, Betty Carter, Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein

Guilford, (1998)

Investigates the family from a feminist perspective.

Money and Meaning

Judith Stern Peck

John Wiley, (2007)

Explores new ways for therapists, coaches and other professionals to have conversations about money with their clients.

Wealthy and Wise: Secrets About Money

Heidi L. Steiger, Neuberger Berman, Editors (Chapter by Judith Stern Peck)

Wiley, (2002)

Provides rare insight into the techniques that wealthy people use to build and protect their wealth, so that they can enjoy life to its fullest.

Milan Systemic Family Therapy: Conversations In Theory And Practice

Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin, Lynn Hoffman, Peggy Penn

Basic Books, (1997)

Transcripts of actual cases, accompanied by case introductions and interviews of Boscolo and Cecchin.

The Relational Trauma of Incest: A Family-Based Approach to Treatment

Marcia Sheinberg, Peter Fraenkel

Guilford, (2000)

Presents a groundbreaking understanding of incest and an innovative, family-based approach to treatment.

The Courage to Raise Good Men

Olga Silverstein, Beth Rashbaum

Penguin, (1995)

Questions our traditional notions of manhood and calls for mothers and fathers alike to refuse to sanction the emotional shutdown we traditionally demand of boys, enabling sons to grow up not only strong men but whole people.

The Alcoholic Family

Peter Steinglass with Linda A. Bennett, Steven J. Wolin, David Reiss

Perseus, (1993)

Paints a radical new picture of alcoholism, offering powerful evidence that most chronic alcoholics live out their lives in intact, relatively quiet family environments.

Child-Friendly Therapy: Biopsychosocial Innovations for Children and Families (Norton Professional Books)

Marcia B. Stern

WW Norton, (2002)

Presents a playful and creative family-centered treatment for today's kids.

In the Midst of Winter: Counseling Families, Couples, and Individuals with AIDS Infection

Gillian Walker

WW Norton, (1995)

Chronicles the brave struggle of families, couples, and individuals caught in that storm and speaks to their strengths even in the bleakest of circumstances.

Surviving an Eating Disorder: New Perspectives and Strategies for Family and Friends

Michele Siegel, Judith Brisman, Margot Weinshel

Harper Collins, 1988, (1997)

Offers effective solutions and support for family and friends of those with eating disorders.

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