Intimate Relationships and How to Improve Them

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Intimate Relationships and How to Improve Them Integrating Theoretical Models with Preventive and Psychotherapeutic Applications

Luciano L'Abate, Piero De Giacomo

ISBN: 1-56750-676-3

ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-676-1

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456 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 4/30/2003

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Series Title: Developments in Clinical Psychology

Description: This volume intergrates one contextual, developmental, and relational theory of personality socialization in the family and other settings with a complementary model of relational styles. Both the theory and the model share complementary characteristics of replicable operations in laboratory evaluation and in preventative and psychotherapeutic interventions in problems with intimate relationships. Further, both the theory and the model are linked to two major models of personality and intimate relationships, the circumplex and attachment, respectively. The theory's 15 models are derived from a variety of social psychological sources, including the social comparison model and resource exchange theory in social psychology. The complementary model, Elementary Pragmatic, owes its origins to communication and systems theories, going beyond them in specificity and applications.

Scholars and researchers looking for novel and original ideas demonstrating how to link theory with practice and evaluation with interventions will find this volume of interest.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Theories and Models of Intimate Relationships
Two Taxonomies of Relational Styles
A Developmental Theory of Relational Competence
Evaluating the Model
Integrating the Theory with the Model
Applications of the Theory and the Model
Theory-Derived Preventive Interventions for Non-clinical Relationships
Theory-Derived Interventions for Clinical Relationships
Model-Derived Preventive Interventions for Non-clinical Relationships
Model-Derived Interventions for Clinical Relationships
Practical Integration: Using Computers and Internet Technologies for Clinical and Non-clinical Relationships
Conclusion
Theoretical Integration of Theory and Model with other Models
References
Appendices

About the Author: LUCIANO L'ABATE is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgia State University.

PIERO DE GIACOMO is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Medical School of Bari University, Italy.

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