Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Setting the stage for working with couples / Michele Harway -- Premarital counseling from the PAIRS perspective / Lori H. Gordon, Robin Rose Temple, and Donald W. Adams -- The first years of marital commitment / William C. Nichols -- Couples with young children / Linda Morano Lower -- Couples with adolescents / C. Haydee Mas and James F. Alexander -- Therapy with older couples : love stories-- the good, the bad, and the movies / Thomas H. Peake and Angela E. Steep -- Bowen family systems theory as feminist therapy / Louis Bordeaux Silverstein -- Cognitive behavioral couple therapy / Terence Patterson -- Object relations couple therapy / David E. Scharff and Yolanda de Varela -- Narrative therapy with couples : promoting liberation from constraining influences / Lynne V. Rosen and Charley Lang -- EFT : an integrating contemporary approach / Brent Bradley and Susan M. Johnson -- Strategic and solution-focused couple therapy / Stephen Cheung -- Integrative healing couples therapy : a search for self and each other / Patricia Pitta -- Feminist and contextual work / Roberta L. Nutt -- Managing emotional reactivity in couples facing illness : smoothing out the emotional roller coaster / William H. Watson and Susan H. McDaniel -- Treating couples with sexual abuse issues / Michele Harway and Ellen Faulk -- Working with couples who have experienced physical aggression / Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, Kahni Clements, and Coreen Farris -- Couples and addiction / Mark Stanton -- Infidelity : theory and treatment / Don-David Lusterman -- Religious and spiritual issues in couples therapy / Ilene Serlin -- Working with same-sex couples / Daniel J. Alonzo -- Treating couples across the socioeconomic spectrum / Florence W. Kaslow -- Divorcing couples / Joy K. Rice -- What the research tells us / Sally D. Stabb -- Some concluding thoughts about couples and couples therapy / Michele Harway.