Overview
- Presents a new, sociocultural-focused model of relationship therapy
- Places relationship quality at the center of therapy
- Uses real case examples to analyze current trends in relationships
- Examines the implications of gender and gender roles in relationships and relationship therapy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy (BRIEFSFAT)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This path-breaking volume introduces Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy for clinical work with troubled couples. Practice-focused and engaging, it integrates real-world knowledge of the intersections of gender, culture, power, and identity in relationships with empirical findings on the neurobiology of attraction. Case examples detail the process of therapists in the moment as they develop both their clinical skills and their understanding of the social contexts fueling couples' difficulties. Applications of the method, which can be used with same-sex couples as well as heterosexual ones, are shown in addressing infidelity, tapping into partners' spirituality, and modeling and encouraging mutual respect and support.
Among the topics covered:
- Undoing gendered power in heterosexual couple relationships.
- Interpersonal neurobiology, couples, and the societal context.
- How gender discourses hijack couple therapy—and how it can be avoided.
- How SERT therapists develop interventions that address the larger context.
- Building a circle of care in same-sex couple relationships.
- Couple therapy with adult survivors of child abuse: gender, power, and trust.
Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy opens out practical new possibilities for marriage and family therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and counselors seeking ideas for more meaningful couples work.
Reviews
“The authors introduce SERT as a new model for addressing couples’ issues in therapy. They present several examples of how to integrate relational ethics, a sociocultural perspective with the role of emotions, neurobiology, and spirituality into couples’ well functioning and satisfaction. The book is written with practitioners in mind … but it can be helpful for graduate students, especially at the doctoral level, looking for the best fit model for their practices.” (Ileana Ungureanu, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy
Book Subtitle: Bridging Emotion, Societal Context, and Couple Interaction
Editors: Carmen Knudson-Martin, Melissa A. Wells, Sarah K. Samman
Series Title: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13398-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: American Family Therapy Academy 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13397-3Published: 27 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13398-0Published: 02 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2196-5528
Series E-ISSN: 2196-5536
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 153
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Family, Psychotherapy