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years. I have learned so much from you! And to my husband Bruce Ant man who has always maintained that any
relationship is salvageable as long as both members of the couple are will-
ing to do whatever it takes to make it work, I say, “ I agree.”
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ICHELEHARWAY, PHD
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About the Contributors ix1. Setting the Stage for Working with Couples 1 Michele Harway
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2. Premarital Counseling from the PAIR S Perspective 7 Lori H. Gordon, Robin Rose Temple, and Donald W. Adams
3. The First Years of Marital Commit ment 28 William C. Nichols
4. Couples with Young Children 44 Linda Morano Lower
5. Couples with Adolescents 61 C. Haydee Mas and James F. Alexander
6. Therapy with Older Couples: Love Stories—The Good, the Bad, and the Movies 80 Thomas H. Peake and Angela E. Steep
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7. Bowen Family Systems Theory as Feminist Therapy 103 Louise Bordeaux Silverstein
8. Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy 119 Terence Patterson
9. Object Relations Couple Therapy 141 David E. Scharf f and Yolanda de Varela
10. Narrative Therapy with Couples: Promoting Liberation from Constraining Inf luences 157 Lynne V. Rosen and Charley Lang
11. EF T: An Integrative Contemporary Approach 179 Brent Bradley and Susan M. Johnson
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12. Strategic and Solution-Focused Couple Therapy 194Stephen Cheung
13. Integrative Healing Couples Therapy: A Search for Self and Each Other 211 Patricia Pitta
14. Feminist and Context ual Work 228 Roberta L. Nutt
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15. Managing Emotional Reactivit y in Couples Facing Illness: Smoothing Out the Emotional Roller Coaster 253 William H. Watson and Susan H. McDaniel
16. Treating Couples with Sexual Abuse Issues 272 Michele Harway and Ellen Faulk
17. Working with Couples Who Have Experienced Physical Aggression 289 Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, Kahni Clements, and Coreen Farris
18. Couples and Addiction 313 Mark Stanton
19. Inf idelit y: Theory and Treat ment 337 Don-David Lusterman
20. Religious and Spirit ual Issues in Couples Therapy 352 Ilene Serlin
21. Working with Same-Sex Couples 370 Daniel J. Alonzo
22. Treating Couples across the Socioeconomic Spectrum 386 Florence W. Kaslow
23. Divorcing Couples 405 Joy K. Rice
24. What the Research Tells Us 431 Sally D. Stabb
25. Some Concluding Thoughts about Couples and Couples Therapy 457 Michele Harway
Author Index 461
Subject Index 475
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About the Contributors
D
onald W. Adams, PhD,earned his doctorate in clinical psychology
from Duke Universit y. After three years as director of Children’s
Service in a rural North Carolina Mental Health Center and an-
other three years as director of Psychological Services at Dorothea Dix
Hospital Inpatient Adolescent Treat ment Program, he began, in 1981, full
time private practice in Cary, North Carolina. Dr. Adams specialized in
play therapy and taught seminars and conducted conference workshops on
child psychotherapy in the 1980s. His practice has been consistently ori-
ented toward the healthy adjust ment of children and fa milies. He has been
active in the North Carolina Psychological Association and served as p resi-
dent in 1995/1996. He and his wife, Jo, a psychiatric nurse specialist, were
trained in PAIR S in 1993. He refocused much of his professional energy to-
ward treating troubled relationships and teaching relationship skills. He
has taught many aspects of PAIR S and has been active in developing and
ref ining PAIR S programs. He is currently the vice p resident of the PAIRS
Foundation and serves on the executive board and steering committee of
PAIR S. Dr. Adams co-authored a chapter on sensualit y and sexualit y in
Building Intimate Relationships.
James F. Alexander, PhD, is the progenitor (with B. V. Parsons) of func-
tional family therapy ( FF T ), a nationally and internationally acclaimed
and empirically demonstrated intervention model for juvenile delinquents,
oppositional and conduct-disordered youth, and substance abusing youth.
Since 1968, he has been on the facult y at the Universit y of Utah. He is the
2001 recipient of the Distinguished Award for Lifetime Contributions to
Family Therapy Research of the American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy. Dr. Alexander is the author of over 90 chapters and refer-
eed journal articles, two books, and over 150 convention p resentations and
academic colloquia. He has also p resented at over 300 national and interna-
tional clinical training workshops.
Daniel J. Alonzo, MA, is a member of t he core facult y at Phil lips Graduate I n-
stit ute in Encino, California. He is a member of the Societ y for the Scien
tific
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St udy of Sexualit y (SSSS) and has presented papers at the SSSS Western
Regional Conferences and the Los Angeles SSSS Chapter. He is also a mem-
ber of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Thera-
pists (AASECT ), and he is an AASECT Certif ied Sex Therapist. In addition,
he is an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Approved
Supervisor and a California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
Certif ied Supervisor, providing supervision, training, workshops, and con-
sultation