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Positive Couple Therapy

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Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience

Positive Couple Therapy

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Positive Couple Therapy book

Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience
ByJefferson A. Singer, Karen Skerrett
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 14 March 2014
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383995
Pages 202
eBook ISBN 9780203383995
Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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Skerrett, K., & Singer, J.A. (2014). Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383995

ABSTRACT

Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a unique method for uncovering positive potential within a relationship. The authors demonstrate how “We stories”–created, recovered and made anew–provide essential elements of connection. With vivid imagery, these stories capture the couple’s sense of “We-ness,” highlighting memorable moments of compassion, acceptance, and respect. A shared commitment to the “We” simultaneously builds the relationship and enables each individual in the partnership to feel a greater degree of both accountability and autonomy. Couples that can find their stories, share them with each other, and then carry them forward to family, friends, and a larger community are likely to preserve a sense of mutuality that will thrive over a lifetime of partnership.

Positive Couple Therapy provides simple and practical instruction for reclaiming positive stories that can catalyze hope in relationships that have become stressed and strained. The authors weave together cutting edge thinking and research in attachment theory, narrative therapy, neuroscience, and adult development, as well as their own research and clinical experience to present vivid case histories, step-by-step strategies, exercises, questionnaires, and interview techniques. They cover a range of contemporary couple experiences: couples in conflict, LGBT partnerships, deployed and discharged military couples, and couples at various points across the life span. The authors’ unique Me (to US) Scale, a 10-item tool that assesses the degree of mutuality a couple possesses at the start of treatment, gives therapists of any theoretical orientation the ability to put this intervention to immediate use.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |15 pages

Introduction: Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience

chapter 1|19 pages

What is the “We”?

chapter 2|26 pages

The Power of Stories in Our Lives

chapter 3|15 pages

Assessing the “We” in Therapy

chapter 4|35 pages

Helping Couples Cultivate Their We-Stories

chapter 5|21 pages

Stuck Stories: Helping Couples Confront and Move Beyond Them

chapter 6|26 pages

Building We-Stories Across the Life Cycle

chapter 7|15 pages

Living and Telling the “We”: Giving Our Stories Away

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