Research Catalog

Title

Evaluating couples : a handbook for practitioners / Mark A. Karpel.

Author

Karpel, Mark A.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1994.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xx, 381 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Evaluating Couples provides specific recommendations on every aspect of the evaluation, including handling the initial telephone call, conducting the initial couple session and subsequent individual sessions with each partner, deciding on treatment recommendations (including when not to recommend couple therapy), and designing and delivering the therapist's response to the couple at the conclusion of the evaluation.
• Evaluating Couples is designed for practitioners who devote a majority of their professional time to treating couples and for those who want to sharpen their skills in this area. It is also designed to help students who are learning about counseling and psychotherapy, especially those who plan to conduct couple therapy, sex therapy, or family therapy; it will help them "start out right" and give them a framework for evaluating couples in the context of other forms of treatment.

Subjects

• Family assessment
• Marital psychotherapy
• Marital Therapy
• Interviewing in psychiatry

Note

• "Norton professional book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-370) and index.

Contents

1. The Arc of Attachment -- 2. Facts of Life: Culture, Gender, and Time -- 3. Relational Challenges -- 4. The Format of the Evaluation -- 5. Arranging the Evaluation -- 6. Conducting the Initial Couple Session -- 7. Conducting the Individual Sessions -- 8. Developing a Formulation -- 9. Deciding on Treatment Recommendations -- 10. Designing the Therapist's Response -- 11. Conducting the Final Session -- 12. Modifications of the Couple Evaluation Format in Other Clinical Contexts -- 13. Other Formats for Evaluating Couples -- 14. Criteria of a Good-Enough Couple Evaluation -- 15. Sexual Difficulties -- 16. Domestic Violence -- 17. Alcoholism -- 18. Depression -- 19. Extramarital Involvements -- 20. Serious Illness.

ISBN

0393701808

LCCN

94032970

OCLC

• 31046155
• ocm31046155
• SCSB-4775836

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries