Handbook of couples therapy / edited by Michele Harway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harway, Michele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marital psychotherapy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Marital psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essential guide to successful couples therapy at every stage of the lifecycle A variety of therapeutic interventions can help couples develop the tools for a successful relationship. Yet many practitioners begin seeing couples without extensive training in couples work. To fill this gap in their therapeutic repertoires, noted couples therapist Michele Harway brings together other well-known experts in marriage and family therapy to offer the Handbook of Couples Therapy, a comprehensive guide to the study and practice of couples therapy. The book's chapters provide a variety of perspect

Contents:

Setting the stage for working with couples / Michele Harway

Premarital counseling from the PAIRS perspective / Lori H. Gordon, Robin Rose Temple, and Donald W. Adams

The first years of marital commitment / William C. Nichols

Couples with young children / Linda Morano Lower

Couples with adolescents / C. Haydee Mas and James F. Alexander

Therapy with older couples : love stories

the good, the bad, and the movies / Thomas H. Peake and Angela E. Steep

Bowen family systems theory as feminist therapy / Louis Bordeaux Silverstein

Cognitive behavioral couple therapy / Terence Patterson

Object relations couple therapy / David E. Scharff and Yolanda de Varela

Narrative therapy with couples : promoting liberation from constraining influences / Lynne V. Rosen and Charley Lang

EFT : an integrating contemporary approach / Brent Bradley and Susan M. Johnson

Strategic and solution-focused couple therapy / Stephen Cheung

Integrative healing couples therapy : a search for self and each other / Patricia Pitta

Feminist and contextual work / Roberta L. Nutt

Managing emotional reactivity in couples facing illness : smoothing out the emotional roller coaster / William H. Watson and Susan H. McDaniel

Treating couples with sexual abuse issues / Michele Harway and Ellen Faulk

Working with couples who have experienced physical aggression / Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, Kahni Clements, and Coreen Farris

Couples and addiction / Mark Stanton

Infidelity : theory and treatment / Don-David Lusterman

Religious and spiritual issues in couples therapy / Ilene Serlin

Working with same-sex couples / Daniel J. Alonzo

Treating couples across the socioeconomic spectrum / Florence W. Kaslow

Divorcing couples / Joy K. Rice

What the research tells us / Sally D. Stabb

Some concluding thoughts about couples and couples therapy / Michele Harway.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610272969

9781280272967

1280272961

9780471694403

0471694401

OCLC:

57565549