Esther D Rothblum, Marcia Hill

How can you provide effective, meaningful therapy to couples with whom you have little or nothing in common? Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives addresses some of the inadequacies, omissions, and assumptions in traditional couples therapy to help you face the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in helping couples today. In this book, you'll uncover perspectives that are grounded in an appreciation of cultural context, the effects of privilege, and the centrality of a respectful stance on the part of the therapist. Anyone seeking to do informed and responsive work with couples in distress will find it a useful and valuable compilation.

• Unsexing the Couple (Marny Hall)
• Cultural Considerations in Couples Therapy (Pamela A. Hays)
• Loving Across Race and Class Divides: Relational Challenges and the Interracial Lesbian Couple (Sarah F. Pearlman)
• The Narrative/Collaborative Process In Couples Therapy: A Postmodern Perspective (Diane T. Gottlieb and Charles D. Gottlieb)
• African American Lesbian Couples: Ethnocultural Considerations In Psychotherapy (Beverly Greene and Nancy Boyd-Franklin)
• The Use of Voice for Assessment and Intervention in Couples Therapy (Janet M. Sims)
• Intimate Partners: A Context for the Intensification and Healing of Emotional Pain (Maryhelen Snyder)
• From Isolation to Mutuality: A Feminist Collaborative Model of Couples's Therapy (Karen Skerrett)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included