Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives

Skerrett, Karen; Fergus, Karen

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.      

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2016-10-23

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9789402400403

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9909-6

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 210