Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- General editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Understanding marital problems -- The state of marriage -- Problems in marital relationships -- Explanatory concepts -- Working with marital problems -- Deciding to work with marital problems -- Operational concepts -- Approaches to intervention -- Marital problems and ethnicity -- Conciliation -- Appendix The law relating to marital breakdown in England and Wales -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.