Treating Couples

Therapists who work with couples are constantly presented with an array of new and often conflicting theories and clinical techniques. At the same time, their clients are being bombarded with advice from talk show ?experts? and self–help books that promote the latest relationship fads.Treating Couples weeds through the treatment trAnds?and presents a rational framework for assessing which methods will most effectively meet clients′ needs and expectations.Written by experts in the field, this book promotes the value of clinical evaluation, judgment, hypothesis formation and testing as the foundation for determining ethical, flexible and creative therapeutic methods. The contributors provide specific guidance for working through each developmental stage in a couple′s life cycle and offer clear–cut techniques for overcoming blame, confusion and misunderstanding. Treating Couples is an accessible guide for the wide range of professionals who practice couples therapy, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, and pastoral ministers.

Spis treści:
Foreword
Introduction
1. Basics of Couple Therapy(Hilda Kessler)
2. Myths in Couples Therapy(Hilda Kessler, Margaret Thaler Singer)
3. Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships(Joel Crohn)
4. The Homosexual Couple(Jack Scheimann, WAndy L. Smith)
5.Health Issues in Couples Therapy(Seymour Kessler)
6. The Difficult Couple(Steven A. Foreman)
7. Domestic Violence(Susan E. Hanks)
The Parenting Couple(Vicky A. Johnson)

Nota biograficzna:
HILDA KESSLER is a practicing clinician who specializes in couples therapy and couples groups. Currently, she is on the clinical faculty of the Wright Institute, Berkeley, California. She has been a lecturer at San Francisco State University and San Jose State University.

Okładka tylna:
Therapists who work with couples are constantl y presented with an array of new and often conflicting theories and clinical techniques. At the same time, their clients are being bombarded with advice from talk show ?experts? and self–help books that promote the latest relationship fads.Treating Couples weeds through the treatment trAnds?and presents a rational framework for assessing which methods will most effectively meet clients′ needs and expectations.Written by experts in the field, this book promotes the value of clinical evaluation, judgment, hypothesis formation and testing as the foundation for determining ethical, flexible and creative therapeutic methods. The contributors provide specific guidance for working through each developmental stage in a couple′s life cycle and offer clear–cut techniques for overcoming blame, confusion and misunderstanding. Treating Couples is an accessible guide for the wide range of professionals who practice couples therapy, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, and pastoral ministers.