Fundamentals of marital therapy /

Fundamentals of Marital Therapy serves as an authoritative introduction to the field, making clear just how different it is to intervene within a marital context than it is to work with an individual. Designed to be practical, the presentation is divided into concise units, each building upon the la...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crane, D. Russell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Brunner/Mazel, c1996.
Series:Brunner/Mazel basic principles into practice series ; v. 14
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Why Marital Therapy Matters: The Economic and Social Consequences of Divorce
  • 2. When Marital Therapy is and is not Appropriate
  • 3. Comparative Approaches to Marital Therapy
  • 4. Why Marital Distress Develops
  • 5. What We Know from the Research About Couple Therapy
  • 6. Basic Considerations
  • 7. Common Errors in Effective Marital Therapy
  • 8. The Process of Couple Therapy
  • 9. What to do with Moderately Distressed Couples
  • 10. Client Resistance and Performance Problems
  • 11. What to do with Severely Distressed Cases
  • Appendix A. Marital Adjustment Test and Scoring Key
  • Appendix B. Dyadic Adjustment Scale and Scoring Key
  • Appendix C. Marital Status Inventory and Scoring Key.