Michael Crowe & Jane Ridley 
Therapy with Couples [PDF ebook] 
A Behavioural-Systems Approach To Couple Relationship And Sexual Problems

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.

Om författaren

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.