Attachment processes in couple and family therapy / edited by Susan M. Johnson, Valerie E. Whiffen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Susan M.

Whiffen, Valerie E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attachment behavior.

Family psychotherapy.

Marital psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and children; the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships; and the ways attachment-oriented interventions can address individual problems as well as marital conflict and difficult family transitions. With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, the volume offers both general strategies a

Contents:

CONTENTS; PART I RELEVANCE OF ATTACHMENT THEORY FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE; 1 Introduction to Attachment: A Therapist's Guide to Primary Relationships and Their Renewal; 2 Adult Attachment Theory, Psychosynamics, and Couple Relationships: An Overview; 3 The Esential Nature of Couple Relationships; 4 Stability and Change of Attachment Representations from Cradle to Grave; 5 Alternative Pathways to Competence: Culture and Early Attachment Relationships; PART II MODELS OF CLINICAL INTERVENTION; 6 Attachment Theory: A Guide for Couple Therapy

7 Attachment Processes in Couple Theory: Informing Behavioral Models8 Caring for the Caregiver: An Attachment Approach to Assessment and Treatment of Child Problems; 9 Creating and Repairing Attachments in Biological, Foster, and Adoptive Families; 10 Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents: Repairing Attachment Failures; PART III USING AN ATTACHMENT PERSPECTIVE IN INTERVENTIONS WITH PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; 11 The First Couple: Using Watch, Wait, and Wonder to Change Troubled Infant-Mother Relationships

12 The Journey of Adolescence: Transitions in Self within the Context of Attachment Relationships13 Implications of Adult Attachment for Preventing Adverse Marital Outcomes; 14 Attachment in Later Life: Implications for Intervention with Older Adults; 15 Using an Attachment-Based Intervention with Same-Sex Couples; PART IV SPECIFIC ATTACHMENT INTERVENTIONS FOR FOR PARTICULAR PROBLEMS; 16 Looking Outward Together: Adult Attachment and Childbearing Depression; 17 Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse History on Current Couple Relationships An Attachment Perspective

18 Attachment and the Experience of Chronic PainPART V CONCLUSION; 19 What Attachment Theory Can Offer Marital and Family Therapists; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-12351-X

9786611123512

1-4175-4373-6

1-59385-557-5

OCLC:

182530727