ABSTRACT

Helping Couples Overcome Infidelity provides clinicians with tangible, research-oriented intervention strategies that can guide couples through the aftermath of an affair. In the treatment of an affair, there are several key elements that couples need to work through as a team, including assessment, working through the crisis phase, rebuilding trust, acknowledging the pain infidelity causes, repairing relationship issues, creating a dynamic sex life, choosing to stay in or leave the relationship, and forgiveness. This book will cover nine milestones in detail and offer a framework for how clinicians can offer helpful treatment at each step. Also included are case studies of particularly challenging couples that the author has worked with and a section at the end of each chapter on therapist self-care.

chapter Milestone 1|12 pages

Reducing the Impact of the Affair

chapter Milestone 2|14 pages

Acknowledgment of the Pain the Affair Caused

chapter Milestone 3|14 pages

Clarity

chapter Milestone 4|12 pages

Choosing to Stay or Leave

chapter Milestone 5|9 pages

Repairing Unresolved Issues in the Relationship

chapter Milestone 6|12 pages

Rebuilding Trust

chapter Milestone 7|9 pages

Redefining the Relationship

chapter Milestone 8|16 pages

Reclaiming a Healthy Sex Life

chapter Milestone 9|9 pages

Forgiveness