Full Description
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 and skill on the part of the therapist. Case Studies in Couples Therapy blends the best of all worlds: clinical applications with challenging and diverse couples that have been derived from the most influential theories and models in couples and family therapy, all written by highly experienced and respected voices in the field.
In Case Studies in Couples Therapy, readers will grasp the essentials of major theories and approaches in a few pages and then see how concepts and principles are applied in the work of well-known clinicians. The case studies incorporate a wide variety of couples from diverse backgrounds in a number of different life situations. It is simultaneously narrow (including specific processes and interventions applied with real clients) and broad (clearly outlining a broad array of theories and concepts) in scope, and the interventions in it are directly linked to theoretical perspectives in a clear and systematic way. Students and clinicians alike will find the theoretical overview sections of each chapter clear and easy to follow, and each chapter's thorough descriptions of effective, practical interventions will give readers a strong sense of the connections between theory and practice.
Contents
Carson, Casado-Kehoe, Couples Therapy in Contemporary Society and a Theory Based Case Study Approach. Olson-Sigg, Olson, PREPARE/ENRICH Program for Premarital and Married Couples. Parrott, Parrott, Preparing Couples for Marriage: The SYMBIS Model. Pregulman, Rienks, Markman, Wadsworth, Einhorn, Moran, Lessons Learned from Recruiting Diverse Couples for Clinical Research on Relationship Education. Robey, Carlson, Adlerian Therapy with Couples. Brok, Working with Couples from a Psychodynamic Perspective Using Cognitive Maps. Bagnini, Object Relations Therapy With Couples. Lawson, Integrated Intergenerational Couple Therapy. Dickson, Dattilio, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy with Couples. Patterson, Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy. Lindblad-Goldberg, Igle, Simms, Ecosystemic Structural Therapy with Couples. Schlanger, Martinez, Problem-solving Brief Therapy: The MRI Approach to Couples Therapy. Anger-Díaz, Anger, MRI's Brief Therapy Approach to Couples Therapy. Ray, Sutton, Strategic Couple Therapy. McLendon, Bitter, A Path to Wholeness: Couples Therapy within the Satir Model. Rheem, Woolley, Johnson, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: A Military Case Study. Hendrix, Hannah, Imago Relationship Therapy. Luquet, The Relational Paradigm and Imago Relationship Therapy. Carson, Casado-Kehoe, Creative/Experiential Therapy with Couples. Weiss, Atkinson, Holzinger-Young, Larsen, An Application of Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples. Burney, Group Oriented Experiential Couples Therapy: An Adventure Based Approach. Nelson, Solution-focused Brief Couple Therapy. Gallant, Strauss, Narrative Therapy with Couples. Wile, Collaborative Couple Therapy. Levin, Carleton, Collaborative Therapy with Couples. Navarra, Gottman, Gottman Method Couples Therapy: From Theory to Practice. Gasbarrini, Snyder, Affective Reconstruction: An Integrative Couple Treatment Applied to Parental Bereavement. Zentman, Integrated Couples Therapy: A Family Developmental Approach to the Treatment of Couples Incorporating Psychoanalytic and Systemic Models. Ripley, Worthington, Maclin, The Hope-focused Approach to Couples Enrichment and Counseling.
