Clinical Practice, Research and Policy Perspectives
Edited by Andrew Balfour, Mary Morgan and Chris Vincent
‘This is a most welcome, twenty-first century updating of psychodynamic approaches to working with couples. The best minds in the field have contributed to this comprehensive consideration of key aspects of this most important domain of clinical activity. This book represents a genuine leap forward.’ Professor Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, Head of Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre
Description
This book is about the importance of the couple relationship in the broadest terms. It draws on clinical researches into the inner lived world of adult couples, empirical developmental research into children and parenting, as well as the legal setting when relationships break down. It aims to bridge the inner and outer worlds, showing how our most intimate relationships have vital importance at all levels, from the individual and the family, to the social setting – and explores the implications for practice and policy. Above all, it is a book about applications of clinical thinking linked with research knowledge, as tools for front line workers and policy makers alike. It draws on the tradition of applied clinical thinking and research of the Tavistock Relationships, linking current thinking with the history of ideas in each area it covers, as well as considering implications for the future.
Contents
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
FOREWORDS
Brett Kahr
Samantha Callan
INTRODUCTION
How couple relationships shape our world: clinical practice, research, and policy perspectives
CHAPTER ONE
Prevention: intervening with couples at challenging family transition points: Carolyn Pape Cowan and Philip A. Cowan
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER ONE
Leezah Hertzmann
CHAPTER TWO
Parents as partners: how the parental relationship affects children’s psychological development: Gordon T. Harold and Leslie D. Leve
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER TWO
Susanna Abse
CHAPTER THREE
How couple therapists work with parenting issues: Mary Morgan
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER THREE
Lynne Cudmore
CHAPTER FOUR
The role of the family court system of England and Wales in child-related parental disputes: towards a new concept of the family justice process: Mervyn Murch
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER FOUR
Christopher Clulow
CHAPTER FIVE
Working therapeutically with high conflict divorce: Avi Shmueli
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER FIVE
Christopher Vincent
CHAPTER SIX
Depression, couple therapy, research, and government policy: Julian Leff, Eia Asen, and Felix Schwarzenbach
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER SIX
Christopher Clulow
CHAPTER SEVEN
Approaches to researching the evidence: an exploration of TCCR’s research into couple relationships and couple therapy, past and present: David Hewison
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER SEVEN
Michael Rustin
CHAPTER EIGHT
Couple therapy—social engineering or psychological treatment?: Andrew Balfour
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER EIGHT
Philip Stokoe
CHAPTER NINE
Her Majesty’s department of love? The state and support for couple and family relationships: Honor Rhodes
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER NINE
Janet Walker
CHAPTER TEN
Supervision: the interdependence of professional experience and organisational accountability: Lynette Hughes and Felicia Olney
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER TEN
David Lawlor
INDEX
Editors: Andrew Balfour, Mary Morgan, Chris Vincent
Publisher: Karnac
Published: 2012
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