Treating Couples / Edition 1

by Hilda Kessler

Overview

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique

Therapists who want to work skillfully with couples are often confronted with a confusing array of theories, techniques, and myths. Treating Couples creatively addresses many of these challenging issues while shining a light to help therapists navigate through this confusing maze.
—Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., co-director, The Couples Institute, Menlo Park, California

Treating Couples weeds through the treatment trends'and presents a rational framework for assessing which methods will most effectively meet clients' needs and expectations. This is an accessible guide for the wide range of professionals who practice couples therapy. Treating Couples promotes the clinical functions of evaluation, assessment, judgment, and hypothesis-formation and testing and will serve as an invaluable resource for determining which approaches are the most ethical, flexible, and creative for the effective treatment of couples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787902056
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/14/1996
Series:	Library of Current Clinical Technique
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

HILDA KESSLER is a practicing clinician who specializes in couples therapy and couples groups. Currently, she is on the clinical faculty of the Wright Institute, Berkeley, California. She has been a lecturer at San Francisco State University and San Jose State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1. Basics of Couple Therapy(Hilda Kessler)
2. Myths in Couples Therapy(Hilda Kessler, Margaret Thaler Singer)
3. Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships(Joel Crohn)
4. The Homosexual Couple(Jack Scheimann, WAndy L. Smith)
5.Health Issues in Couples Therapy(Seymour Kessler)
6. The Difficult Couple(Steven A. Foreman)
7. Domestic Violence(Susan E. Hanks)
The Parenting Couple(Vicky A. Johnson)

Editorial Reviews

"Therapists who want to work skillfully with couples are often confronted with a confusing array of theories, techniques, and myths. Treating Couples creatively addresses many of these challenging issues while shining a light to help therapists navigate through this confusing maze. I found this book refreshing and well worth reading for both seasoned practitioners and newcomers to the field." —Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., co-director, The Couples Institute, Menlo Park, California

From the Publisher

Eight contributions by psychologists and psychiatrists discuss the basics and the myths of couples therapy; interracial, interethnic, and interfaith relationships; the homosexual couple; health issues; the difficult couple; domestic violence; and parenting. As in other volumes in the series, the emphasis is on practical techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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