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 ......
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.
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.
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 ......
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.
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 acknowledgment of the "victim" status of the partner who discovered the affair. Dr. Lusterman then works to restore trust and helps the ......
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 ......
Considers courtroom modifications such as allowing supportive adults in the witness box and allowing hearsay exemptions. This book is intended for mental health professionals who perform forensic evaluations of child witnesses in cases of alleged maltreatment in order to determine whether to recommend courtroom modifications.
School-Based Interventions for Students Exposed to Trauma
Provides readers with the necessary "trauma informed" tools to intervene on behalf of struggling students and create a beneficial educational environment. With examples of core treatment components and engaging case studies, this book illustrates how effective schoolbased interventions ensure that students have the opportunity to heal from trauma.
