In "Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs", Dr. Don-David Lusterman demonstrates his empathic, psychoeducational approach to working with couples in which one partner has had an affair. Therapy begins with acknowledgement of the "victim" status of the partner who discovered the affair. Dr. Lusterman then works to restore trust and helps the ......
This book presents a safety-focused approach to assessment and treatment of couples who choose to remain together after one or both partners have been violent.
It is not uncommon for couples to quarrel over issues such as chores or finances. However, such conflicts tend to have underlying, unresolved issues that can easily be mistaken for something else. In Couples Experiencing Commitment Uncertainty, clinical interventions are led by establishing a secure attachment between partners, and helping couples ......
Describes a session the author had with a couple who have been stuck in an impasse for several months. This session demonstrates the four stages of therapy - engagement, assessment, insight, and reorientation, using confrontation to help the couple to understand how they contribute to their own misery and guiding them to help realize satisfaction.
Describes a session the author had with a couple, helping them understand how the illness or recovery process affects their relationship, and identify resources that will help the couple to cope. This session demonstrates her approach to working with couples in which one or both partner suffers from an illness.
Their Nature, Complexity, and Role in Health and Illness
Presents the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives in the field of middle-age and older couple relationships. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the impact of health concerns, loneliness, chronic disease management, couple negotiation of everyday tasks, and coping across the lifespan. Implications for ......
Demonstrates the authors' positive approach to couples treatment. Rather than focusing merely on correcting specific relationship problems, they work with both partners to help them achieve a shared identity as a couple - an identity that centers on their vision for the future, not on issues solely from the past.
Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communication, and Community in Relationships
Introducing the Couple Power Therapy model, in which partners co-create a unified vision for their relationship, the authors use a series of sequential tasks to teach the partners how to transcend their individual identities to nurture ""the couple as entity."" With exercises and illustrative case studies, this is a helpful resource for ......
This book surveys the state of the science and practice of today's couple and family therapy, looking beyond single models of treatment to instead present an integrative view of the field and its methods of practice.
