The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Couples and Family Relationships

Patricia Noller, Gery C. Karantzas

John Wiley & Sons, Dec 5, 2011 - Psychology - 512 pages

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Couples and Family Relationships presents original articles from leading experts that link research, policy, and practice together to reflect the most current knowledge of contemporary relationships.  

• Offers interesting new perspectives on a range of relationship issues facing twenty-first century Western society
• Helps those who work with couples and families facing with relationship issues
• Includes practical suggestions for dealing with relationship problems
• Explores diverse issues, including family structure versus functioning; attachment theory; divorce and family breakdown; communication and conflict; self regulation, partner regulation, and behavior change; care-giving and parenting; relationship education; and therapy and policy implications

Contents

• From Form to Function: 11
• Social Trends and their Impact on Couple and Family Relationships: 25
• Changing American Families in the 21st Century: 36
• The Role of the Family across the Lifespan: 51
• Parents and Adolescents: 66
• LateLife Transitions and Interventions: 97
• Conflict Avoidance in Families: 115
• Conflict in Family Relationships: 129
• DemandWithdraw Communication in Couples: 144
• Adult Attachment and Sexuality: 161
• Sexual Dysfunction in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships: 175
• Regulating Incentives and Threats in Close Relationships: 193
• Attachment and Caregiving: 207
• Attachment Insecurities and Relationship SelfRegulation: 223
• The Costs and Benefits of Trying to Change Intimate Partners: 234
• Through the Eyes of Love: 248
• Betrayal and Forgiveness in Couple Relationships: 259
• Taking it to the Streets and Information Super Highways: 273
• Relationship Education: 289
• A Common Factors Perspective of Relationship Counseling: 305
• The Efficacy of EvidenceBased Couple Therapy: 320
• Surviving Trauma: 333
• Depression and SelfHarming in Adolescence: 363
• Attachment and Depression Across the Transition to Parenthood: 377
• Recent Advances in Research on Social Support in Couples: 392
• Chronic Illness and Relationships: 406
• Promoting Positive Pathways for Youth and Young Adults to Healthy: 423
• Improving Child and Family Outcomes through a Collaborative: 437
• Are Governments and Marriage Strange Bedfellows?: 453
• Common Themes in Couple and Family Relationship Research: 469

About the author

Patricia Noller is Professor Emeritus, University of Queensland. She has published extensively in the areas of marital and family relationships, and adult attachment. Dr. Noller is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the National Council on Family Relationships (USA).

Gery C. Karantzas is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, and Convenor of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) Psychology of Relationships Interest Group. He has published numerous studies in the area of close personal relationships with a specific interest in investigating couple and family relationships during transitions and in adult attachment.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Couples and Family Relationships
• Editors: Patricia Noller, Gery C. Karantzas
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1444354094, 9781444354096
• Length: 512 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family