Equal partners - good friends empowering couples through therapy
Marriage as an equal partnership is the goal of amny couples in the western world today and yet equality is often limited by the ways that power and gender interact in the relationship, leading to dissatisfaction and ultimately the break up of the marriage. In Equal PArtners - Good Friends Claire Ra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
1996.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798499406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a change in perspective; Gender, power and contemporary relationship tension; The egalitarian alternative. What is it? Is it worth the effort?; Friendship: the basic condition of equal partnership; Shared power: the road to mutual empowerment; Towards an integrative model of treatment goals for couples; Assessment; Types of couples seeking therapy; Creating an egalitarian therapeutic system; The treatment model: individual interventions and education about equality; Couple interventions
- Treatment of the traditional couple: putting the wife in chargeTreatment of the transitional couple: overt and covert power struggles; Issues in training and supervision; Notes; Bibliography; Index
