| Description |
xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Treatment manuals for practitioners |
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Treatment manuals for practitioners.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index. |
| Contents |
The Nature and Significance of Relationship Problems -- The Development of Relationship Problems -- Processes That Maintain Relationship Problems -- A Model of Couple Relationships -- Approaches to Couple Therapy and Their Effectiveness -- Defining Success in Couple Therapy -- Empirically Supported Approaches to Couple Therapy -- Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy -- Self-Regulation and Couple Therapy -- Structure of Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy -- The Process of Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy: Making It Succeed -- Completion of Couple Therapy -- Assessment, Part I: Overview and Initial Session -- Structuring Successful Conjoint Interviews -- When Assessment Reveals Relationship Crises -- Assessment, Part II: Second and Any Subsequent Sessions -- Interpreting Core Assessment Tasks -- How to Manage Common Challenges in Couple Presentations -- Concluding Assessment -- Feedback and Negotiation -- Negotiating Relationship Goals and Therapy Structure -- Managing Common Challenges in Feedback and Negotiation -- Brief Self-Change -- Implementing and Evaluating Self-Change -- Promoting Generalization and Maintenance of Change -- Relationship Psychoeducation -- Process of Relationship Psychoeducation -- Common Themes in Distressed Relationships -- Influences on Themes of Couple Adaptive Processes -- Common Variations in Couple Relationships -- Linking Relationship Psychoeducation to the Next Steps in Therapy -- Therapist-Guided Change -- Increasing Positivity in Day-to-Day Interactions -- Promoting Better Communication -- Conflict Management. |
| Summary |
Brief Therapy for Couples: Helping Partners Help themselves. |
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This book provides a complete guide to self-regulatory couple therapy (SRCT), an innovative clinical approach that maximizes the couple's capacity for self-directed change. |
| Subject |
Brief psychotherapy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Marital psychotherapy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Marital Therapy -- methods.
(DNLM)D008388Q000379
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Couples Therapy -- methods.
(DNLM)D019546Q000379
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Psychotherapy, Brief -- methods.
(DNLM)D011614Q000379
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Brief psychotherapy. (OCoLC)fst00838970
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Marital psychotherapy. (OCoLC)fst01010086
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| ISBN |
1572301791 |
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9781572301795 |
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