Sections
Definition and Overview | Evaluation of the Couple | Evaluation of Sexual Disorders | Treatment Approach | Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction in Couples | Efficacy of Couples Therapy | Indications for Couples Therapy | Contraindications to Couples Therapy | Special Issues in Couples Therapy
Excerpt
Marital or couples therapy can be defined as a format of intervention
involving both members of a dyad, in which the focus of intervention
is the problematic interactional patterns of the couple. The focus
of couples therapy is on the dyad and its intimate emotional and
sexual aspects. In this chapter, we use marital
therapy and couples therapy interchangeably,
as the majority of the issues are the same. A couple may represent
man–woman, man–man, or woman–woman relationships.