Reveiw of Helping Couples Change: A Social Learning Approach to Marital Therapy.

Reviews the book, Helping Couples Change: A Social Learning Approach to Marital Therapy by Richard B. Stuart (1980). Helping Couples Change describes in detail a well thought out, structured, systematic, strategic therapy based on social learning theory. Dr. Stuart thoroughly outlines the development of this approach and documents where he has incorporated thoughts from other schools (notably the communication theory of Haley, Watzlawick, et al.). He then goes on to present a concise, scientific, and pragmatic rationale for his approach to marital treatment which includes what to do from the time that the clients first contact your office through to follow-up evaluation. The treatment approach is outlined in enough detail to allow for easy replication by the practitioner, with vignettes used to illustrate all of the methods and techniques discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)