1st Edition
Marital Instability and Divorce Outcomes Issues for Therapists and Educators
By Craig Everett
Copyright 1991
220 Pages
by
Routledge
207 Pages
by
Routledge
207 Pages
by
Routledge
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Clinicians and educators in the marriage and family field will gain valuable insight into the relationship dynamics that cause marital stress and the interactional factors that may result in divorce from this excellent book. The perceptive theoretical, empirical, and clinical chapters included in Marital Instability and Divorce Outcome examine why certain elements in relationships result in... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- I. Issues of Marital Instability
- Divorce and the Wheel Theory of Love
- Symmetricality/Complimentarity and Their Relationship to Marital Instability
- Demographic Subgroup Contributions to Divorce Cause Constellations
- Profiles of the Divorce Prone: The Self Involved Narcissist
- Divorce Likelihood Among Anglos and Mexican Americans
- II. Divorce Outcome Patterns
- Traumas Versus Sterns: A Paradigm of Positive Versus Negative Divorce Outcomes
- An Exploratory Analysis of the Construct of Leavers Versus Left as It Relates to Levinger’s Social Exchange Theory of Attractions, Barriers, and Alternative Attractions
- Initiator Status and Separation Adjustment
- A Preliminary Investigation of Family Systems’ Influences on Individual Divorce Adjustment
- After the Divorce: Familial Factors That Predict Well-Being for Older and Younger Persons
- A Comparison of Physical and Emotional Health After Divorce in a Canadian and United States’ Sample
Biography
Everett, Craig
