Crowe / Ridley / Skynner Therapy with Couples

A Behavioural-Systems Approach To Couple Relationship And Sexual Problems
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-68015-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten, E-Book

Since the first edition of this practical book was published in1990, a number of important developments have taken place and havebeen incorporated into the new edition. There are now many kinds of"non-traditional" relationships that accompany an increasingdivorce rate and the shrinking number of marriages. Co-habitation,remarriage, step-parent/step-child relationships and theirimplications for the extended family, their strengths and areas oftension are examined.
Accompanying these changes has been a development in therapeuticapproaches and additional outcome data is now available. Rapidprogress has been made in treatments, and their implications aredescribed. In addition the therapeutic managing of separating anddivorcing couples, domestic violence, and the aftermath of sexualand physical abuse are discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crowe, Michael

Ridley, Jane

Skynner, Robin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Who are the Clients and What Pressures Lead them to SeekTherapy?.
2 Relationship Problems and the Goals of Therapy.
3 The Overall Sstrategy of Therapy.
4 The Process and Structure of Therapy: Beginnings andEndings.
5 Reciprocity Negotiation.
6 Communication Training.
7 Systems Thinking.
8 Structural Interventions in-session.
9 Systems Approach: Messages, Formulations, Tasks andTimetables.
10 Couple Therapy in Jealousy, Depression, Domestic Violence andother specific Problems.
11 Sexual Relationships: Disorders of Interest, Arousal andOrgasm.
12 Couple Therapy with Non-traditional Couples and the Processof Divorce.
13 Training of Terapists.
14 Summary, Reappraisal and Prospects.
Appendices.
Index.
Index of Cases.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Crowe, DM, FRCPsych is a consultant psychiatrist at theSouth London and Maudsley NHS Trust, where he heads a unit forpatients with repeated self-harm, as well as running specializedclinics for couple relationship and sexual therapy and theassociated MSc/Diploma training courses. He is a founder member ofthe Institute of Family Therapy; he is also a founder member andpast Chairman of the British Association for Sexual andRelationship Therapy and is a member of the Governing Board of theUK Council for Psychotherapy.
Jane Ridley, BA, PQSW trained originally in Social Work at theLondon School of Economics and at the University of Newcastle andas a mature student at the Institute of Psychiatry. She began workwith Michael Crowe in 1983 at the Marital and Sexual TherapyClinics and was instrumental in developing the Course inRelationship and Sexual Therapy which now offers both an MSc andDiploma. She has developed her work within Supervision and runstraining courses for advanced therapists. She has also been Chairof the Family, Marital and Sexual Section of UKCP and a member ofthe Governing Board of the UKCP.