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Most people live in couple relationships for a good part of their lives, and many couples experience distress and seek help. To support the professionals who treat these couples, Dr Nelsen organizes material from systems and cognitive-behavioural approaches as well as ego psychology and object relations theory in one solid, nonjudgmental volume. It opens with a rationale for the eclectic position, drawing on Dr Nelsen's years of experience as a therapist, educator and author, and it reveals her appreciation and respect for couples' strengths from the initial alliance-building interview forward. The book advances one step at a time through the process of assessment and individual and joint evaluation to the appropriate strategies and inteventions for treating issues of communication, problem-solving, insight and intimacy. Dr Nelsen is unfailingly attentive to sociocultural factors and, in keeping with her own professional expertise, gives thoughtful consideration to special circumstances: partners of the same sex or of different ethnicity; couples who have already separated; cases in which an extra-marital affair has been disclosed, or symptoms of anxiety, depression or personality disorder have surfaced; and narcissistic pairings, where both people manifest extreme sensitivity to hurt and blame.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Couple Treatment
• Subtitle: Assessment and Intervention
• Author: Judith C. Nelsen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 412
• EAN: 9780765701664
• ISBN: 0765701669
• ID: 04916233
• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
• Weight: 794 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 164 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 1998

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