Claire Rabin

Equal Partners - Good Friends

Empowering Couples Through Therapy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the connection between inequality in marriage and marital distress. Drawing on extensive research the book stresses the role of friendship in establishing a truly equal relationship

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415116145
• ISBN-10: 0415116147
• Artikelnr.: 21443139

Autorenporträt

Claire Rabin, D.S.W. is a teacher and supervisor of family and couples therapy at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University and a therapist in private practice

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a change in perspective 1 Gender, power and contemporary
relationship tension 2 The egalitarian alternative. What is it? Is it worth
the effort? 3 Friendship: the basic condition of equal partnership 4 Shared
power: the road to mutual empowerment 5 Towards an integrative model of
treatment goals for couples 6 Assessment 7 Types of couples seeking therapy
8 Creating an egalitarian therapeutic system Analyzing therapist-couple
interactions as an assessment tool 9 The treatment model: individual
interventions and education about equality 10 Couple interventions 11
Treatment of the traditional couple: putting the wife in charge 192 12
Treatment of the transitional couple: overt and covert power struggles 13
Issues in training and supervision