As a quality resource that examines the psychological, neurobiological, cultural, and spiritual considerations that undergird optimal couple care, Foundations for Couples’ Therapy teaches readers to conduct sensitive and comprehensive therapy with a diverse range of couples. Experts from social work, clinical psychotherapy, neuroscience, social psychology, and health respond to one of seven central case examples to help readers understand the dynamics within each partner, as well as within the couple as a system and within a broader cultural context. Presented within a Problem-Based Learning approach (PBL), these cases ground the text in clinical reality. Contributors cover critical and emerging topics like cybersex, emotional well-being, forgiveness, military couples, developmental trauma, and more, making it a must-have for practitioners as well as graduate students.
Author(s): Jennifer Fitzgerald
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 533
City: New York, NY
Tags: relationships, self-expansion, couples therapy, caregiving, attachment, relationship quality, polyamory, attributions, relational commitment, partner-serving biases, romantic love, relational communication, jealousy, relational conflict, cybersex, porn, trauma, shame, self-regulation, intimate partner violence, demand-withdraw pattern, emotions, family of origin, fertility problems, pregnancy loss, forgiveness, hurt feelings, relational stress, relational turbulence, trust, addiction, sexuality
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Beyond Models and Interventions: What Else Do Couples’ Therapists Need to Know?
2 Romantic Love as an Attachment Process: Shaping Secure Bonds
3 Assessment of Relationship Quality
4 Caregiving in Couple Relationships
5 Cognitions (Beliefs and Attributions) in Couple Relationships
6 Understanding Commitment and Partner-Serving Biases in Close Relationships
7 Redefining Communication in Couple Relationships
8 Understanding Couple Conflict From an Attachment Perspective
9 Cultural Diversity in Couple Relationships
10 Cybersex and Pornography
11 Death of a Child: Impact on the Parents’ Couple Relationship
12 Demand-Withdraw Patterns of Communication in Couple Relationships
13 Emotion in Couples
14 The Impact of Family of Origin Experiences
15 Fertility Problems and Pregnancy Loss
16 Forgiveness
17 Gambling
18 Couples and Health
19 Hurt Feelings
20 Close Relationships, Immune Function, and Health: Understanding the Clinical Importance of Distressed Relationships
21 An Integrative Approach to Treating Infidelity in Couples
22 The Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy: Maintaining Intimacy Through Self-Disclosure and Responsiveness
23 Coping With Jealousy
24 Life Transitions for Couples
25 Love and Self-Expansion
26 Family Mediation for Divorce and Parental Separation
27 Mental Health Disorders in Couple Relationships
28 The Impact of Military Service on Couple Relationships
29 Neurophysiological Processes in Couple Relationships: Emotion, Attachment Bonds, and the Brain
30 Parenting in Couple Relationships
31 Counseling Clients in Polyamorous Relationships
32 Couple Relationship Education
33 Working With Same-Sex Couples: Considerations for Self-Supervision
34 Self-Regulation in Close Relationships
35 Integrating Sexual Concepts and Interventions into Couple Therapy
36 Sexually Transmitted Infections
37 Shame in Couple Relationships
38 Couple Therapy and Spirituality
39 Emotionally Focused Family Therapy for Stepfamilies: Building Security for Children in the Face of Complexity and Change
40 Couples’ Therapy in Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
41 Emotionally Focused Therapy Supervision: The Four Chambers of the HEART
42 Developmental Trauma
43 The Role of Trust and Commitment in Love Relationships
44 Intimate Partner Violence
45 Work, Stress, and Love: Investigating Crossover Through Couples’ Lived Experiences
46 Research for the Real World: Integrating Research With Seven Couple Cases
Index
