Couples in Conflict

<p>This classic volume provides a solid foundation for thinking about creative ways in which our society can work to prevent or minimize destructive couple conflict and enhance couples' abilities to constructively handle their differences. A common thread throughout is that constructive conflict and negotiation are beneficial for relationships. The new introduction provides an overview of how this classic text is still relevant today.</p><p>Divided into four parts this book:</p><p>*addresses the societal and bio-evolutionary underpinnings of couple conflict;</p><p>*presents the interpersonal roots of couple conflict and the consequences for individuals and couples;</p><p>*discusses what effects couple conflict have on children and how individual differences in children moderate these effects; </p><p>*outlines policies and programs that address couple conflict; and</p><p>* concludes with an essay that pulls these four themes together and points to new directions for research and program efforts.</p><p>This book serves as a supplement in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on interpersonal relationships couples and/or family and conflict divorce couples and/or family therapy taught in human development and family studies clinical or counseling psychology social work sociology and communications and it is also a helpful compendium for researchers and clinicians/counselors interested in couple conflict. </p>