Couples seek therapy for a variety of reasons, from short-lived adjustment difficulties to deeply entrenched conflict. Yet marital therapy has lacked a conceptual framework for matching treatment to a couple’s particular problem. This outstanding new book, by a team of researcher-clinicians from the Center for Family Learning, is the first to address this deficiency.The authors systematically assess the duration and intensity of a couple’s present conflict, as well as how the spouses function alone and in their extended families. They have found that troubled couples tend to fall into one of four categories, each best suited to a particular treatment program. The mild conflicts of stage one, for example, respond well to a six-week educational program; whereas the extreme anger and alienation of stage three is best handled without direct confrontation.The authors describe their evaluation and treatment procedures—including assessing multigenerational systems, dealing with triangles, and reducing emotional arousal—and illustrate their explanations with lengthy case illustrations and session-by-session transcripts. Because it offers a carefully articulated, clinically tested method of treating a broad range of marital problems, this valuable book makes a unique and much-needed contribution to the field.
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Philip J. Guerin, Jr. is Director of the Center for Family Learning and the editor of Family Therapy: Theory and Practice (1976). Leo F. Fay is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fairfield University and a family therapist at the Center for Family Learning. Susan L. Burden is Director of the Marital Project at the Center for Family Learning. Judith Gilbert Kautto is Director of Postgraduate Education at the Center for Family Learning.
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This review is from: The Evaluation and Treatment of Marital Conflict: A Four-Stage Approach (Hardcover)
Sensitive and easily applicable guide to effective couple's therapy. Insightful and clear description of dynamic of couple conflict and way to work through. Great primer for beginning therapists.
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This is a very well written book about marital therapy. The writing is crisp and very informative. It presents both the theory and particulars of family therapy in a simple way. It is not a comprehensive review of family therapy, but the writing style, I think, makes it the book to buy.
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If you like Murray Bowen's family systems approach, this is the book for you. Personally, I find Bowen to be devoid of what is currently essential in family or marital therapy- gender sensitivity and multiculturalism. Still and all, Bowen's approach can produce powerful results. This book applies Bowenian theory to couples therapy and counseling.
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DON AND SUSAN, a couple in their mid-forties, came for marital therapy shortly after Susan had received a call from Don's mistress informing her of their three-year affair. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extended family triangles, social network triangle, primary parental triangle, emotional pursuer, emotional distancer, asymptomatic spouse, multigenerational family system, multigenerational family unit, bitter bank, cluster stress, reciprocal functioning, reactive distance, toxic issues, child triangle, severe marital conflict, intense marital conflict, premorbid state, extended family work, planned distance, aggrieved spouse, overly close relationship, adaptive level, therapist explored, interactional sequence, fantasy solution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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DON AND SUSAN, a couple in their mid-forties, came for marital therapy shortly after Susan had received a call from Don's mistress informing her of their three-year affair. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extended family triangles, social network triangle, primary parental triangle, emotional pursuer, emotional distancer, asymptomatic spouse, multigenerational family system, multigenerational family unit, bitter bank, cluster stress, reciprocal functioning, reactive distance, toxic issues, child triangle, severe marital conflict, intense marital conflict, premorbid state, extended family work, planned distance, aggrieved spouse, overly close relationship, adaptive level, therapist explored, interactional sequence, fantasy solution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- For Each Other: Sharing Sexual Intimacy by Lonnie Barbach on page 55, and Back Matter
- Children of Crisis by Robert Coles on page 13
- Sharing Parenthood After Divorce by Oiji Ware on page 263
- Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling: A Guide to Brief Therapy by Everett L., Jr. Worthington in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Counseling African American Marriages and Families (Counseling and Pastoral Theology) by Edward P. Wimberly in Back Matter
- Psychosocial Genetic Counseling by Jon Weil in Back Matter
- Couples in Treatment by Gerald Weeks on page 172
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