A Life-Cycle Approach to Treating Couples: From Dating to Death - Softcover

Fishel, Anne K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946646148 ISBN 13: 9781946646149

Publisher: Momentum Press, 2018

Synopsis

A Life-Cycle Approach to Treating Couples draws on 30 years of clinical work and a rich body of research about lifecycle theory to offer couple therapists a guide to helping couples traverse six developmental stages-dating and commitment; transition to parenthood; midlife couples; launching and retiring couples; late-life couples; and relationship endings. For each stage, the author offers clinical vignettes as well as questions and strategies for the clinician to pursue. In this clear and authoritative book, Fishel provides examples and research about clients who are diverse in their marital status, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, SES, and health.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D. is a family therapist, clinical psychologist, and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Family and Couple Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she trains child and adult psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and social workers in family and couple therapy. She is the author of two previous books: Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun, and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids (2015) and Treating the Adolescent in Family Therapy: A Developmental and Narrative Approach (1999).
"Many therapists believe couple therapy is the most difficult -- more than individual or family therapy. Dr Fishel will change your mind about this! In clear language, she makes simple the complex relationships of couples without robbing them of their texture or quality. This book is for all professionals who want to understand how to strengthen the bond between intimate partners." --Susan McDaniel, PhD. 2016 President of the American Psychological Association
 
"In this exceptional book, Fishel draws on her years of experience and accumulated wisdom to produce an informative, reassuring, and practical reference that should be on the desk of every couple's therapist."--Martha B. Straus, PhD, author, Treating Trauma in Adolescents: Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship
 
"Anne Fishel has provided us with a rich, comprehensive, and evocative look at therapy for couples at different stages of the life cycle. She uses what is known from research and from vivid vignettes to provide helpful questions for therapists to pose to partners at each stage of life that will enrich their conversations and connections with one another. This volume will be invaluable for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and those who train professional therapists to work with couples. I daresay it would also be eye-opening and helpful to couples themselves, who will surely find themselves in many of its rich examples." --Carolyn Pape Cowan, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Author of When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples.
 
"A seamless integration of elegant theory with in-the-office pragmatism, Dr. Fishel's graceful prose accomplishes the impossible task of making a text all things to all practitioners.  Her comprehensive synthesis of the field's evidence into developmental stages, combined with a diligent anticipation of diversity among individuals and circumstances maintain the high utility that has defined all of Dr. Fishel's writings.  The work is a most convenient framework for inquiry and intervention, giving as much attention to the when of relationships as to the who that comprise them." --David Rubin, MD, Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy; Director of MGH Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program.
 
"In her beautifully written portrait of the life cycle of couples, Anne Fishel has woven together research, memorable examples from her clinical practice and helpful suggestions for practitioners into a truly helpful guide.  I was particularly impressed by her ability to approach couples in an accepting, non-pathologizing way. Any family therapist who reads this book will find him or herself better equipped to meet and help couples of any age on their marital journey." --Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of Raising Cain
 
"With this book, Anne Fishel has contributed a major advance to our understanding of couples and the practice of couples therapy. Her life cycle perspective places the clinical at the center of the couple's world and her many compelling case examples and relevant questions offer pragmatic help for navigating the challenging terrain of couples therapy. This is a book that complements the work of all couples therapists regardless of their preferred models."--Douglas C. Breunlin, Program Director, Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

Edition details

• Publisher: Momentum Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1946646148
• ISBN 13: 9781946646149
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160