Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Karen Skerrett, Karen Fergus (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational alliance that offers an opportunity and challenge to go beyond the self - to develop as individuals and as a relationship. The contributors to this volume represent a range of perspectives that integrate conventional relationship science and innovative empirical and theoretical work on the importance of meaning-making, narrative construction, intersubjectivity, forgiveness, and positive emotion in couple life. The volume also offers a unique anchor point - ‘We-ness’ as it relates to the intersection between shared, personal identity and well-being. Under-examined relational contexts such as resilience among LGBT partners and sexual resilience during illness adds further refinement of thought and application.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Resilience in Couples: A View of the Landscape....Pages 3-22
Theoretical and Methodological Underpinnings of Resilience in Couples: Locating the ‘We’....Pages 23-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Resilience in Lesbian and Gay Couples....Pages 45-61
Sexual Resilience in Couples....Pages 63-82
Dyadic Adaptation to Chronic Illness: The Importance of Considering Context in Understanding Couples’ Resilience....Pages 83-105
Relationships and the Neurobiology of Resilience....Pages 107-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Mutuality and the Marital Engagement – Type of Union Scale [ME (To US)]: Empirical Support for a Clinical Instrument in Couples Therapy....Pages 123-137
Identification with the Relationship as Essential to Marital Resilience: Theory, Application, and Evidence....Pages 139-161
“We-ness” in Relationship-Defining Memories and Marital Satisfaction....Pages 163-177
Forgiveness: A Route to Healing Emotional Injuries and Building Resiliency....Pages 179-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Resilient Couple Coping Revisited: Building Relationship Muscle....Pages 199-210

✦ Subjects

Positive Psychology; Quality of Life Research; Gender Studies; Family