skip navigation

Not in the United States?
change your preferences.

Building Intimate Relationships

Bridging Treatment, Education, and Enrichment Through the PAIRS Program

• Edited by Rita DeMaria, Mo Therese Hannah

• Price: $36.95 $33.26
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 304
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 26th December 2002
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-076-4

About the Book

The PAIRS course acts as a kind of bridge between marriage education and therapy, working both with couples in healthy relationships hoping to improve intimacy, and with distressed couples trying to save their marriages. Building Intimate Relationships is an edited work with contributions from the creator of the PAIRS program and the most experienced PAIRS leaders. It describes the elements of the PAIRS course and discusses the application of the theories and techniques taught in the PAIRS program. Chapters include discussions on intimacy, communication, conflict resolution, "emotional literacy", sensuality and sexuality, spirituality and gender issues.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Mo Therese Hannah
Preface, Diane Sollee
Introduction to PAIRS, Rita DeMaria

Part One: The PAIRS Program in Context1. An Overview of the PAIRS Program, Rita DeMaria
2. The Saga of the Development of PAIRS, Lori H. Gordon
3. The Voices of the PAIRS Leaders, Barbara Bogartz

Part Two: The PAIRS Program: Through the Voices of the Leaders4. The PAIRS Relationship Road Map, Robin Temple
5. Emotional Literacy and Healthy Relationships, Ann Ladd
6. Communication and Conflict Resolution, J. Thomas DeVoge and Joyce B. DeVoge
7. PAIRS and Family Systems, Bonnie Gordon-Rabinowitz and Marc D. Rabinowitz
8. Bonding and Emotional Literacy, Carlos Durana
9. Sensuality and Sexuality, Don Adam and Don Azevedo
10. Contracting: Clarifying Expectations, Ellen B. Purcell
11. Spirituality and the PAIRS Program, Teresa Adams
12. PAIRS Research, Carlos Durana

Part Three: Special Populations and Adaptations13. Stepfamilies, Bill and Linda Wing
14. PEERS: Programs for Youth, Seth Eisenberg
15. PAIRS Short Programs, Kelly Simpson

Part Four: Practical Realities16. Exploring Gender Issues in the PAIRS Program, Elaine Braff
17. PAIRS: Health and Wellness-Preliminary Considerations, Christine Hibbard and David
Hibbard 18. Ethics, J. Thomas DeVoge

Epilogue: Spiritual Partnership, Rabbi Morris Gordon
Closing, Rabbi Morris Gordon
Appendix
Contributors
Index

About the Author(s)

Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Siena College in Loudonville, New York and an Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy. Dr. Hannah is co-editor of Preventive Approaches in Couples Therapy (1999, Taylor/Francis) and of Healing in the Relational Paradigm (1998, Taylor/Francis). She is the co-author of The EQ (Social-Emotional Intelligence) Program (2000, Symenet Press). Since 1996, she has served as Editor/Managing Editor of The Journal of Imago Relationship Therapy. She practices couples therapy near Albany, New York.

Customers who bought Building Intimate Relationships also bought: