Case studies in couples therapy : theory-based approaches / / edited by David K. Carson and Montserrat Casado-Kehoe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810488703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, c2011
• ISBN: 1-136-97030-4; 1-136-97031-2; 0-203-85156-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Collana: The family therapy and counseling series
• Altri autori (Persone): CarsonDavid K; Casado-KehoeMontserrat
• Disciplina: 616.89/1562
• Soggetti: Couples therapy; Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Case Studies in Couples Therapy THEORY-BASED APPROACHES; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword.; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors.; Contributors; Introduction: Couple Therapy in Contemporary Society and a Theory-Based Case Study Approach.............................................................................................; 1. PREPARE/ENRICH Program for Premarital and Married Couples.; 2. Preparing Couples for Marriage: The SYMBIS Model.; 3. Lessons Learned From Recruiting Diverse Couples for Clinical Research on Relationship Education; 4. Adlerian Therapy With Couples.5. Working With Couples From a Psychodynamic Perspective Using Cognitive Maps; 6. Object-Relations Therapy With Couples.; 7. Integrated Intergenerational Couple Therapy.; 8. Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Couples.; 9. Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy: Multiple Couple Illustrations and Comparisons; 10. Ecosystemic Structural Therapy With Couples.; 11. Problem-Solving Brief Therapy: The Palo Alto Approach to Working With a Latino Couple; 12. Mental Research Institute's Brief Therapy Approach to Couple Therapy.; 13. Strategic Couple Therapy.; 14. A Path to Wholeness: Couple Therapy Within the Satir Model.15. Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: A Military Case Study.; 16. Imago Relationship Therapy.; 17. Imago Couple Therapy and the Relational Paradigm.; 18. Creative/Experiential Therapy With Couples.; 19. An Application of Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples; 20. Group-Oriented Experiential Couple Therapy: An Adventure-Based Approach.; 21. Solution-Focused Brief Couple Therapy.; 22. Narrative Therapy With Couples.; 23. Collaborative Couple Therapy: Turning Fights Into Intimate Conversations; 24. Collaborative Therapy With Couples.25. Gottman Method Couple Therapy: From Theory to Practice.; 26. Affective Reconstruction: An Integrative Couple Treatment Applied to Parental Bereavement.; 27. Integrated Couple Therapy: A Family Developmental Approach to the Treatment of Couples Incorporating Psychoanalytic and Systemic Models; 28. The Hope-Focused Approach to Couple Enrichment and Counseling.; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This up-to-date, highly readable, theory-based, and application-oriented book fills a crucial void in literature on couple therapy. Few books in the couple therapy market bridge the gap between theory and practice; texts tend to lean in one direction or the other, either emphasizing theory and research with little practical application, or taking a cookbook approach that describes specific techniques and interventions that are divorced from any conceptual or theoretical base. However, couples therapy requires a high degree of abstract/conceptual thinking, as well as ingenuity, inventiveness