Family Matters: A Guide to Parenting
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
Working with Families of the Poor
(Guilford, 1998)
Presents a clear and practical approach to working with underprivileged families.

Ronny Diamond, David Kezur, Mimi Meyers, Constance Scharf, Margot Weinshel
Couple Therapy for Infertility
(Guilford, 1999)
Describes a unique therapeutic approach developed to treat couples confronting the painful challenge of infertility.

Evan Imber-Black
Families and Larger Systems: A Family Therapist's Guide through the Labyrinth
(Guilford, 1988)
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
Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships
(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.

Evan Imber-Black, Janine Roberts, Richard Whiting
Rituals in Families and Family Therapy
(WW Norton, 1988, 2003)
Daily rituals, holiday traditions, and rites of passage mark our time, create unforgettable memories, and define us as individuals, family members, and community participants.

Evan Imber-Black
Secrets in Families and Family Therapy
(WW Norton, 1993)
Text for therapists on the impact of secrets in the therapeutic process.

Evan Imber-Black
The Secret Life of Families: Making Decisions About Secrets
(Bantam, 1999)
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.

Evan Imber-Black
The Secret Life of Families: Truth-Telling, Privacy, and Reconciliation in a Tell-All Society
(Bantam, 1998)
Discusses the havoc that can result from either keeping or "opening" secrets inappropriately.

Peggy Papp, Editor
Couples on the Fault Line: New Directions for Therapists
(Guilford, 2000)
Presents a range of approaches to helping couples reconsider and reorder their life priorities.

Peggy Papp, Stephen R. Shirk
The Process of Change
(Guilford, 1994)
A guide for students and practioners interested in exploring paradoxical and strategic interventions from a systems perspective.

Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein
The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Relationships
(Guilford, 1988)
Investigates the family from a feminist perspective.

Judith Stern Peck
Money and Meaning
(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)
Wealthy and Wise: Secrets about Money
(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
Milan Systemic Therapy: Conversations in Theory and Practice
(Basic Books, 1987)
Transcripts of actual cases, accompanied by case introductions and interviews of Boscolo and Cecchin.

Marcia Sheinberg, Peter Fraenkel
The Relational Trauma of Incest: A Family-Based Approach to Treatment
(Guilford, 2000)
Presents a groundbreaking understanding of incest and an innovative, family-based approach to treatment.

Olga Silverstein, Beth Rashbaum
The Courage to Raise Good Men
(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
The Alcoholic Family
(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
Child Friendly Therapy
(WW Norton, 2002)
Presents a playful and creative family-centered treatment for today's kids.

Gillian Walker
In the Midst of Winter: Counseling Families, Couples and Individuals with AIDS Infection
(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
Surviving an Eating Disorder: New Perspectives and Strategies for Family and Friends
(Harper Collins, 1988, 1997)
Offers effective solutions and support for family and friends of those with eating disorders.