Help clients grow into loving commitment!Making and keeping
commitments is more difficult today than ever. About half of all
marriages end in divorce, and serial monogamy is not uncommon.
Couples Connecting: Prerequisites of Intimacy identifies the
cultural and personal attitudes that impede commitment and impair
intimacy, and it gives you the therapeutic tools to work with
clients who don't know how to build a lasting love.Couples
Connecting examines why past theories of self-actualization are now
failing. Because our culture emphasizes individualistic values,
people do not learn how to create and share bonds with others.
Therapists must become developmental partners for clients who need
to overcome failures of maturation in order to have successful,
loving relationships with their partner. This essential guide
offers you practical techniques and case studies, as well the
theoretical underpinnings to deal with this crisis of intimacy.
Couples Connecting provides specific, insightful studies on
overcoming obstacles to genuine commitment, including: identifying
patterns of anger in distressed and nondistressed couples ways to
help engaged couples overcome the fear of following negative family
patterns using family systems theory and psychodynamics to
understand developmental issues in marriage suggestions for
clinical practice with couples who fear intimacy implications of
ten essential factors in intimacyCouples Connecting will help you
design and use techniques to promote personal growth and bridge
gaps between clients to help couples achieve satisfying and
intimate relationships.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2000 |
First published: |
October 2000 |
Authors: |
Barbara Jo Brothers
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Dimensions: |
221 x 160 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
158 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7890-1164-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
|
LSN: |
0-7890-1164-6 |
Barcode: |
9780789011640 |
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