1st Edition

Marriages in Trouble The Process of Seeking Help

By Julia Brannen, Jean Collard Copyright 1982
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

In the early 1980s it was fashionable to suggest that marriage as an institution was in trouble, but there were widely differing views as to whether or not this was really so. Originally published in 1982, this title started as a small-scale exploratory study of clients with marital problems and how they came to seek help. Using a sociological approach to marriage, the authors compare the medical... Read more

Acknowledgements.  New Preface for the Reissue.  Introduction.  1. The Research Focus: Concepts and Ideas  2. The Project: Research Design, Methods, and Characteristics of the Group Studied  3. Attitudes to the Disclosure of Personal and Marital Problems  4. Marital Problems: The Ways They Were Defined and Attributed  5. The Context of the Help-Seeking Process: Critical Events and Problems  6. The Marriages and Their Social Networks  7. Informal Consulting and Social Networks  8. Formal Help-Seeking: Social Networks, Approaches, and Pathways  9. The Agencies: Perceptions, Expectations, and Initial Impact  10. Prescriptions for Counselling: Assumptions, Meanings, and Approaches  11. Perceptions of the Ideal Situations for Disclosure  12. Postscript.  References.  Index of Couples.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

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Julia Brannen and Jean Collard