Overview

Grounded in the cognitive-behavioral approach, The Dilemmas of Intimacy focuses exclusively on understanding, assessing, and treating common problems with intimacy. Intimacy offers both risks and rewards, which create three dilemmas that every couple must negotiate: joy vs. protection from hurt, I vs. we, and past vs. present. These dilemmas offer readers a window into the treatment of intimacy problems, and help them to structure formulations, treatment goals, and therapeutic strategies. Unique to this book is the author’s “Intimacy Signature,” which is a comprehensive system for assessing couples’ intimacy issues, and offers a four-step formula for translating assessment data into therapeutic strategies. Along with the book, readers will have access to a web resource page that includes the Intimacy Signature assessment: therapist worksheets (that help match presenting problems to probable intimacy dilemmas), checklists of strengths and areas of vulnerability to assist the clinician in making a prognosis, a client take-home packet, and therapist tools for intervention (including therapist-client dialogues).

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Author:   Karen J Prager (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780415816854

ISBN 10:   0415816858
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Rewards, Risks, and Intimacy Dilemmas 2. The Assessment of Intimacy-Related Problems 3. Getting Started and Building the Therapeutic Alliance 4. Behavioral Interventions 5. Affective Interventions 6. Cognitive Intervention 7. Intimacy’s Core Dilemma: Joy Vs. Protection from Pain 8. Intimacy Dilemma 2: How Much “I” Vs. How Much “We?” 9. The Urge to Merge, Dilemma 2 and the Challenges of Differentiation 10. Dilemma 3: “The Past Lives in the Present.” Concluding Thoughts

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Karen J. Prager, PhD, ABPP, is a professor of psychology and program head for gender studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is also a diplomate in couple and family psychology, specializes in the treatment of troubled relationships, and offers supervision and continuing education for mental health professionals on couple therapy.

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