This DVD is part of the groundbreaking series in which Betty Carter--an internationally renowned therapist, teacher, and author--shows therapists how to address gender, money, and power in clinical work with couples in crisis. The other two DVDs in the series are CLINICAL DILEMMAS IN MARRIAGE: The Search for Equal Partnership and WHO'S IN THE KITCHEN: Helping Men Move Toward the Center of Family Life. Immensely useful and skillfully presented resources, the programs draw upon the clinical expertise of Carter and producer Steve Lerner, practicing family therapist and founding director of Menninger Video Productions.

This DVD depicts a series of simulated therapy and financial mediation sessions based on actual clinical material. Carter works with a long-term married couple as they painfully struggle to renegotiate the terms of their partnership after their grown children have left home. Viewers receive an inside view of Carter's strategy for working through financial inequity as the cornerstone for building other positive changes that can enhance and enrich their marriages.

The DVD shows how to help couples:
*Move away from models of financial dependence and unilateral control.
*Shift their financial arrangements to reach a more equitable disbursement of money and power in their marriage.
*"Level the playing field" between husbands and wives in negotiating change.
*Bring financial mediation into the therapeutic process to enable them to evaluate and more equitably manage their finances.