Helping Couples Understand, Recover from, and Avoid Future Affairs.
Milton :
Routledge,
2018.
1 online resource (208 pages)
Family Systems Counseling: Innovations Then and Now Ser.
Includes bibliographical references and subject index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Historical Family Systems Review and Current State of the Art; 3 Relationship Dissatisfaction: The Stock Market of Love; 4 Power Imbalances: The See-Saw of Love in Relationships; 5 The Death of the Dream, the Fantasy Unfulfilled, the Wish Un-Granted, and the Opening of the Door to Infidelity; 6 Detonation of the Bomb: Infidelity Discovered, the Partner's Perspective, and the Decision to Pick Up the Pieces or Pack It In
7 Exploring the Wishes, Dreams, and Fantasies Unfulfilled and/or Developing New Ones to Pursue Together8 Rebalancing the See-Saw: Sharing Power and Working Together; 9 Increasing Satisfaction and Learning to Ride the Ups and Downs of Relationships; 10 Affair Proof! How to Help Couples Make Sure An Infidelity Isn't Happening or Won't Ever Happen Again; 11 Conclusion and Wrap-Up; References; Index
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A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity offers an explanatory model and concrete techniques, enabling therapists and counselors to treat the core of a couple's relationship problems instead of merely applying a therapeutic bandage. Chapters give therapists proven techniques to help couples redevelop trust, rebalance power, increase satisfaction, and recover from the wounds that infidelity causes. This text uses case studies from clinical practice, examples of public or historical figures, and scenarios from popular movies to illustrate concepts, and it provides a systemic explanatory model for understanding infidelity, one that focuses on marital dissatisfaction, power imbalances, unfulfilled dreams, and the discovery of infidelity.
Ingram Content Group
9781351847773
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity : Helping Couples Understand, Recover from, and Avoid Future Affairs.