Helping Couples Change : A Social Learning Approach to Marital Therapy - Stuart, Richard B. (New York : Guilford Press, 1980)
Why Treat Troubled Marriages? -- Values and Philosophy in Selecting Marital Therapy Goals and Methods -- Techniques of Therapy Based on Social Learning Theory -- Assessing Troubled Marriages -- Structuring the Therapeutic Process -- Caring Days: A Technique for Building Commitment to Faltering Marriages -- Communication Change -- Structuring Behavior Exchanges -- Allocating the Authority to Make Decisions -- Conflict Containment -- Sex Therapy / Freida M. Stuart, D. Corydon Hammond -- Maintaining Results.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 381-426.
Keywords: Marital psychotherapy; Marital Therapy; Marital psychotherapy