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Marriage, divorce, and remarriage : professional practice in the Hong Kong cultural context / edited by Katherine P.H. Young and Anita Y.L. Fok.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family social work--China--Hong Kong.
- Family social work.
- Marriage--China--Hong Kong.
- Marriage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection on marital work offers the means to rethink marriage by examining the ways husbands and wives cope with the demands and dilemmas of their relationship, from diverse parenting, forgiveness, coping with childhood abuse, infidelity, disenchantment and distancing, to uncoupling in divorce, and re-coupling in remarriage.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Rethinking Marriage; 2 Discovering the Spouse's Other-ness Through Family-of-origin Explorations and Re-inventing Partnerships in Marriage; 3 Long-term After-effects of ChildhoodSexual Abuse on Married Life:Implications for Practice; 4 Tackling the Intrinsic Dilemma in Marital Infidelity; 5 Forgiveness in Marriage; 6 Reaching the ""Point of No Return"":Tracking the Pathway to Making the Decision to Divorce; 7 Rediscovery of the ""Self: Culturally Sensitive Intervention for Chinese Divorced Women
- 8 Ambivalent Exit and Ambiguous Entry:Ten Hong Kong Men's Perception of Spousal Relationships in and Out of Marriage9 The Making of a Second Spring:The Experiences of Remarried Persons in Hong Kong; 10 Gender Considerations in Couple Work: Reflections From Social Workers Involved in Marital Counselling; 11 The Changing Nature and Ideology of Marriage in Hong Kong; 12 Reconstruction of Traitional Values forCulturally Sensitive Practice; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70494-X
- 9786612704949
- 988-220-221-7
- OCLC:
- 655789575
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