Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples

Go beyond cookie-cutter therapy and interventions to provide culturally relevant therapy that works for your clients in interracial relationships! With this book, you'll explore an array of relational issues faced by various configurations of interracial couples. Then you'll learn specific intervention strategies for treating these couples in therapy. The first section presents research and theoretical chapters on issues faced by interracial couples who are heterosexual; the second focuses on issues facing racially mixed gay and lesbian couples; and the third provides you with specific interventions to use with couples in interracial relationships. Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples: Theories and Research is an important addition to the collection of any therapist who counts an interracial couple among his or her clients. From the editors: “Although interracial couples face challenges related to differences in their racial backgrounds, couple and family theories have had little to say about how to work with these differences. Not all couples are white, married, and heterosexual, and there is a growing understanding that clinical practices based on these assumptions may not be adequate when working with interracial couples. Recognizing the diversity of our clients, the intent of this book is to contribute to more respectful and inclusive clinical practices that can address the treatment issues we face in the first decade of the twenty-first century.” The first section of this book examines challenges faced by heterosexual interracial couples, focusing on: 
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<li> how black/white couples experience and respond to racism and how they negotiate the racial and ethnic differences they face in their relationships </li>
<li> the significance of race—or lack of it—in white women's relationships with black men, with suggestions on how to create a therapeutic space for discussing race without over-determining its significance </li>
<li> marriages where one partner is of Latino/a descent and the other of non-Latino/a white descent—a pilot study of a rarely investigated population! </li>
<li> approaches, interventions, and strategies to use when treating multicultural Muslim couples </li>
<li> Hawaii's unusual history of interracial ties and relationships, the common challenges that face interracial couples there, and therapeutic interventions that can benefit them</li>
</ul> The second section of Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples looks at the issues faced by same-sex interracial couples. Here is a sample of what you'll find:<ul>
<li> clinical considerations for working with interracial/intercultural lesbian couples </li>
<li> pitfalls to avoid in therapy as well as suggestions for a conceptual approach for gay Latino men in cross-cultural relationships </li>
</ul> The book's final section presents interventions for use with interracial couples. Here you'll find:<ul>
<li> assessment techniques and interventions geared toward black-white couples </li>
<li> information on doing effective therapy with Latino/a-white couples </li>
<li> a case study of the therapeutic process as applied to an Asian-American woman married to a white man </li>
<li> seven therapists' perspectives on working with interracial couples—focusing on the historical context of intermarriage, specific concerns and issues that interracial couples experience in their relationships, and the experiences of therapists working with this diverse and challenging client population</li>
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Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples: Theories and Research

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wetchler, Joseph L.

Thomas, Volker

Karis, Terri

Mental Health

Routledge

Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples

Use new knowledge of the LGBT culture to ably counsel same-sex couples! Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples provides psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors with an overview of the array of treatment issues they may face when working with couples from the LGBT community. This book highlights the experiences of therapists who have encountered concerns particular to LGBT clientsespecially those in intimate relationships. This intriguing resource covers clinical issues, sex therapy, special situations, and training issues for helping therapists successfully counsel same-sex couples. Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples explores the therapist’s role in working through universal issues in couples therapysuch as communication problems, infidelity, and decision-makingwith a focus on how therapy should differ for same-sex couples. This important guide also identifies which problems are unique to couples as an aspect of their sexual orientation, including gender role socialization and societal oppression. With this book, you will be able provide appropriate therapy without over- or under-attributing a couple’s problems to their LGBT status. This book shows how experienced therapists have developed methods for working with: 
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<li> gay and lesbian parents </li>
<li> heterosexual spouses and ex-spouses </li>
<li> couples in HIV serodiscordant relationships </li>
<li> lesbian bed death </li>
<li> couple and family dynamics supporting transgender and sexual reassignment issues </li>
<li> and more! </li>
</ul> Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples contains several features for you to utilize in your own practice, including the Sexual Orientation Matrix for Supervision (SOMS) to assist supervisors and trainers in preparing supervisees to work with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. The book also offers guidelines for heterosexual therapists who plan to work with same-sex couples and how to overcome any residual homophobia or heterosexual guilt. Lastly, this essential sourcebook reviews several articles, book chapters, books, and Web sites that are relevant to same-sex couples and the therapists who work with them.

Bigner, Jerry

Parenting & Relationships

Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity

Help your clients’ relationships survive infidelity! In the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, a panel of seasoned experts reflects on issues central to affairs, and on how to help couples heal and learn from them. First, editors Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph L. Wetchler provide an essential overview of infidelity theory, research, and treatment. They discuss the effect of infidelity on couples and delineate three types of infidelityemotional, physical, and infidelity including aspects of both. They review the relatively new role of the Internet in infidelity and explore infidelity within the context of comarital relationships. Finally, they discuss the overarching theories and common models used in infidelity treatment. Also in the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity: 
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<li> Susan M. Johnson, the co-developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), discusses affairs through the lens of attachment theory, and shows how EFT provides a way to acknowledge and express pain, remorse, and regret, and to repair this attachment bond. 
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<li> David Moultrup takes a Bowenian approach to infidelity, focusing attention on the underlying dynamics of the emotional system 
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<li> Frank Pittman and Tina Pittman Wagers outline cultural myths about affairs and do their share of debunking 
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<li> Adrian Blow discusses how to help couples directly address their painand the challenges of the healing process 
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<li> Brian Case highlights the role of apology and forgiveness in the healing process 
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<li> Frank Stalfa and Catherine Hastings focus on the treatment of accusatory sufferinga spouse’s obsessive holding onto and retaliating for an affair long after it has ended, and despite the offending partner’s repeated apologies and attempts at restitution 
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<li> Don-David Lusterman discusses individuals who have suppressed or denied traumatic stress reactions to their partner’s affair, and how to help them 
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<li> Scott Johnson discusses myths about affairs, from who is cheating on whom, to whether men really have more affairs than women, to the blame-filled language of affairs, betrayal, and infidelity, asking us to think more systematically about affairs and to see the dynamics of extra dyadic relationships as more complex and nuanced than they are typically portrayed in the literature 
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<li> Joan Atwood provides an overview of Internet infidelitythe factors influencing one’s involvement in this type of infidelity, and some considerations for therapists 
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<li> Tim Nelson, Fred Piercy, and Doug Sprenkle report on the results of a multi-phase Delphi study that explored what infidelity experts say are the critical issues, interventions, and gender differences in the treatment of Internet infidelity 
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<li> Monica Whitty and Adrian Carr draw upon Klein’s object relations theory and discuss how this might influence the way people rationalize their Internet infidelity 
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<li> Emily Brown outlines the concept of the Split Self Affairdiscussing its origins, characteristics, and implications for individuals and couples, and providing detailed information on how to work with these couples in therapy 
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<li> Michael Bettinger presents extra dyadic relationship as a fact, rather than a problem, within many gay male relationshipsa discussion that shows how gay male polyamory can work as an alternative to the heterosexual model of emotional and sexual exclusivity in romantic dyadic relationships 
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<li> Katherine Hertlein and Gary Skaggs report on the results of a study that assessed the level of differentiation and one’s engagement in extra dyadic relationships</li>
</ul>The Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity is essential reading for today’s (and tomorrow’s) clinicians who work with couples. Make it a p

Piercy, Fred P.

Milewski Hertlein, Katherine

Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

Bigner, Jerry J.

Taylor&Francis

Family Therapy Sourcebook: Second Edition

While there are many volumes that survey the field of family therapy, Family Therapy Sourcebook provides something different: a roadmap to classic and state-of-the-art work on foundational issues in theory, research, and practice. More than a textbook or a summary of primary sources, this volume is a comprehensive guide to original source materials for the student or teacher of family therapy. Covering the traditional family therapies and more, each chapter presents a selective annotated bibliography, highlights key concepts and clinical techniques, discusses research issues, and proposes creative teaching strategies. Describing helpful assignments and experiential learning exercises for educators, the authors share valuable expertise gained from years of teaching.

And Associates

Sprenkle, Douglas H.

The Guilford Press

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