Therapy with Couples – A Behavioural–Systems Approach to Couple Relationship and Sexual Problems 2e

Since the first edition of this practical book was published in 1990, a number of important developments have taken place and have been incorporated into the new edition. There are now many kinds of "non-traditional" relationships that accompany an increasing divorce rate and the shrinking number of marriages. Co-habitation, remarriage, step-parent/step-child relationships and their implications for the extended family, their strengths and areas of tension are examined.Accompanying these changes has been a development in therapeutic approaches and additional outcome data is now available. Rapid progress has been made in treatments, and their implications are described. In addition the therapeutic managing of separating and divorcing couples, domestic violence, and the aftermath of sexual and physical abuse are discussed.

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

About the Author :
Michael Crowe, DM, FRCPsych is a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, where he heads a unit for patients with repeated self-harm, as well as running specialized clinics for couple relationship and sexual therapy and the associated MSc/Diploma training courses. He is a founder member of the Institute of Family Therapy; he is also a founder member and past Chairman of the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy and is a member of the Governing Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. Jane Ridley, BA, PQSW trained originally in Social Work at the London School of Economics and at the University of Newcastle and as a mature student at the Institute of Psychiatry. She began work with Michael Crowe in 1983 at the Marital and Sexual Therapy Clinics and was instrumental in developing the Course in Relationship and Sexual Therapy which now offers both an MSc and Diploma. She has developed her work within Supervision and runs training courses for advanced therapists. She has also been Chair of the Family, Marital and Sexual Section of UKCP and a member of the Governing Board of the UKCP.