Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the
Family Business: Tools for Success

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Learn how to keep family problems from affecting the family business!

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business: Tools for Success presents a comprehensive model for reconciling fractured relationships within the business-owning family. Written by the founders of the Carmel Institute for Family Business, this unique book is an essential tool for people involved in family businesses.

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business is a practical and concise guide to building healthy families and collaborative family business teams that last for generations. The book introduces the ideology that frames the Reconciliation Model for relationship repair, and defines two main systemic problems facing business-owning families: oppression and disengagement. It also presents an in-depth study of a business-owning family, demonstrating how the Reconciliation Model works—step-by-step.

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business addresses, including:

• basic principles of relationships in business-owning families
• individual dynamics that account for human dilemmas
• power issues
• effective intervention in troubled relationships
• assessing relationship patterns
• family structure and process
• roles, responsibilities, and ethics of advisors working with family-owned businesses
• and much more!

Reconciling Relationships and Preserving the Family Business is a vital resource for members of business-owning families and for the professional people who advise them: lawyers, therapists, bankers, clinical social workers, accountants, consultants, and therapists. The book is invaluable for teaching consultants and family members alike to recognize and resolve real or potential relational problems that can have an adverse effect on the family business.

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Concise Guide to Marital and Family Therapy

Concise Guide to Marital and Family Therapy is written for a professional audience and focuses on therapy with families and couples -- nowadays encompassed by the field of marital and family therapy (MFT). It is about changing relationships through changing the interactions between the people who make up the family or marital unit.

We live in a complex world, a world of numerous reciprocal relationships and multiple interactions. This book is invaluable reading not only for psychiatrists, psychologists and all other health care professionals but also for all who care about relationship success.

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Chocolate Pudding and Other Approaches
to Intensive Multiple Family Therapy

"Chocolate Pudding documents a remarkable week in the lives of four families." With new and innovative techniques incorporated from the disciplines of family therapy, gestalt, and transactional analysis, Ruth McClendon and Leslie Kadis guide these families through a re-examination of their personal developments, a reassessment of their current behaviors, and the resolution of the difficulties that brought them to therapy.

The authors offer a compelling example of how professional excellence, imagination, persistence and a caring approach can help all families achieve their goals. (excerpted from the book jacket)