Intimate Relationships Across the Lifespan

This comprehensive research-based book is a next-generation study of intimate relationships that explores implications for health and well-being across cultures genders and traditional as well as non-traditional relationships.This book fills the need for a contemporary analysis of intimate relationships and their implications for people''s health well-being and quality of life. It covers topics not ordinarily included in textbooks on this topic in non-traditional areas such as LGBT relationships. The text also addresses intervention strategies for relationship problems and offers tools and techniques for assessing intimate relationships. Chapters are organized to present information about the origin formation development enrichment and maintenance of intimate relationships in a way that allows readers to build upon what they have learned. The text provides integrated and evidence-based information on almost all aspects of intimate relationships and will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty in family studies psychology and other social sciences. Moreover counselors clinicians and therapists working on conflict violence abuse maladjustment depression deterioration dissolution reconstruction and enrichment of marital and non-marital intimate relationships will find this text valuable for their practice.