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.
A comprehensive overview of the field of counseling psychology that surveys key professional practices, interventions, research, and basic concepts. It examines the growth of the field; its foundations; contributions to research; and the ways in which counseling psychologists have helped develop effective practices in psychotherapy and counseling.
Providing a detailed, engaging overview of counseling psychology, this book examines its empirical foundations, its guiding principles, and the methods used in both research and practice. The third edition discusses contemporary research and theories, including feminist multicultural counseling.
Dr Patricia Arredondo demonstrates her contextual, psychohistorical approach to therapy with clients whose heritage is from one of the many Spanish speaking countries. Her approach takes into consideration not just the client as an individual, but the client in context. This means attending to the client's culture, family traditions, religious ......
Demonstrates an approach to working with clients experiencing primary infertility, or difficulty conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to full term for the first time. This DVD shows the author working with a woman in her mid-20s who has not yet been able to conceive, with medical tests providing no clear reasons for the problem.
Demonstrates an approach to working with clients experiencing secondary infertility, or difficulty conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to full term after previously having had a child. This DVD shows the author talking with a 40-year-old woman who has a daughter by an earlier marriage, but is now having difficulty concerving with her new husband.
