1-Day Workshops
Deconstructing Impasses: A Road Map for Couples Therapy
Friday, February 24, 2012
Michele Scheinkman, L.C.S.W.
Working with Reactivity in Couples and Families: A Buddhist Psychological Approach to Strong Emotions
Friday, March 2, 2012
David Kezur, L.C.S.W.
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.
Publications
The Ackerman Institute will receive a portion of the proceeds of every book you buy from the titles below.
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.
Patricia Minuchin, Jorge Colapinto, Salvador Minuchin
Guilford, (1998)
Presents a clear and practical approach to working with underprivileged families.
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.
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.
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.
WW Norton, (1993)
Text for therapists on the impact of secrets in the therapeutic process.
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.
Peggy Papp, Editor
Guilford, (2000)
Presents a range of approaches to helping couples reconsider and reorder their life priorities.
Peggy Papp, Stephen R. Shirk
Guilford, (1994)
A guide for students and practioners interested in exploring paradoxical and strategic interventions from a systems perspective.
Marianne Walters, Betty Carter, Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein
Guilford, (1998)
Investigates the family from a feminist perspective.
John Wiley, (2007)
Explores new ways for therapists, coaches and other professionals to have conversations about money with their clients.
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.
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.
Marcia Sheinberg, Peter Fraenkel
Guilford, (2000)
Presents a groundbreaking understanding of incest and an innovative, family-based approach to treatment.
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.
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.
Marcia B. Stern
WW Norton, (2002)
Presents a playful and creative family-centered treatment for today's kids.
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.
Michele Siegel, Judith Brisman, Margot Weinshel
Harper Collins, 1988, (1997)
Offers effective solutions and support for family and friends of those with eating disorders.



















