ABSTRACT

Treating Couples Well shows clinicians how to create a collaborative approach to couple therapy, which will empower couples to take charge of their own treatment.

Written in an engaging and conversational style, the book carefully explains how to help couples choose between a variety of clinical approaches and offers effective treatment strategies for a wide range of issues, including infidelity, intimacy and sexuality, communication, mental illness, and addiction. Chapters also explore the importance of considering the therapist’s own life experience and its impact on working with couples. Practical interventions, clinical vignettes, and homework exercises are included throughout to help therapists to successfully support the needs of each couple and to encourage meaningful work between sessions.

Drawing on a plethora of case examples from the career of a leading couple therapist, Treating Couples Well will be a valuable resource to couple and marriage and family therapists at all levels.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|7 pages

Creating Collaborative Couple Therapy

First Interview

chapter 3|8 pages

Effortful Love

Behavioral Change in the Here and Now

chapter 4|15 pages

Homework That Works Well for My Clients

chapter 5|12 pages

Behind Closed Doors

The Intimacy/Sexuality Conundrum

chapter 6|7 pages

Camp Treadway

chapter 7|7 pages

The Amends and Forgiveness Protocol

chapter 8|7 pages

The Challenges of Infidelity

chapter 10|7 pages

Divorce

The Sword of Damocles

chapter 11|9 pages

When One Spouse Is the “Problem”

chapter 12|10 pages

Mayhem, Moves, Mistakes, Mismatches

chapter 13|6 pages

The Elephant in the Therapist’s Chair

chapter 14|8 pages

The Therapeutic Use of Self-Disclosure

chapter 15|7 pages

Our Calling

chapter |4 pages

Epilogue