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Handbook of Couples Therapy
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Noted couples therapist Michele Harway brings together other well-known therapists offering guidance to clinicians working with couples. Up-to-date coverage of the most often used treatment models, advice for working with couples along the lifecycle, and guidelines for treating difficult couple problems make this a necessary resource for all couples therapists and mental health professionals working with adult populations.
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Couples Therapy | |
| Release Date: 01-07-2005 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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Handbook of Couples Therapy
Chapter One
Setting the Stage for Working with CouplesMichele Harway
In the fairy tale, the Prince and Cinderella fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Our culture abounds with similar stories. In each case, the story seems to end at the moment of commitment and we are seldom privy to the adjustments that the couples must make in beginning a life together. And yet, the adjustment must be great or more couples would succeed in celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary (Kreider & Fields, 2002, based on U.S. Census data, cite only 5% of married couples reach at least their 50th anniversary). The same authors report 10% of married couples divorcing within 5 years of marriage and 20% of married couples divorcing within 10 years of marriage. There are no parallel figures for same-gender couples or cohabiting couples. But clearly the track record is not good.
Some professionals (Nichols, Chapter 3) suggest that the first year of marriage (or of living together) is actually the most difficult year of a relationship. This makes sense: Even when the couple has a similar cultural background, they have grown up in different families, whose daily living habits may differ on the most mundane issue (how to put the roll of toilet paper on the holder) to the somewhat more important issues (who is responsible for what tasks in the home). These two individuals may have different expectations of a relationship and different values on a wide variety of subtle and not-so-subtle topics. The differences may multiply when, in addition, the two come from d
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