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| individual sessions in couples therapy: In Quest of the Mythical Mate Ellyn Bader, Peter Pearson, 2013-05-13 In Quest of the Mythical Mate presents a valuable and fertile developmental model for diagnosing and treating couples that is flexible enough to incorporate a wide variety of intervention strategies, yet purposeful enough to give a clear sense of direction to couples in distress. As such, this volume provides a powerful therapeutic approach for all professionals who treat couples. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Creating Acceptance and Change, Second Edition Andrew Christensen, Brian D. Doss, Neil S. Jacobson, 2020-09-15 The definitive therapist manual for Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)—one of the most empirically supported approaches to couple therapy. Andrew Christensen, codeveloper (along with the late Neil Jacobson) of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, and Brian Doss provide an essential manual for their evidence-based practice. The authors offer guidance on formulation, assessment, and feedback of couples’ distress from an IBCT perspective. They also detail techniques to achieve acceptance and deliberate change. In this updated edition of the work, readers learn about innovations to the IBCT approach in the 20+ years since the publication of the original edition—including refinements of core therapeutic techniques. Additionally, this edition provides new guidance on working with diverse couples, complex clinical issues, and integrating technology into a course of treatment. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Projective Identification and Psychotherapeutic Technique Thomas H. Ogden, 1982 An examination of projective identification and its clinical uses from a Kleinian perspective. The author puts forward the hypothesis that identification is the patient's way of mastering significant trauma. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Couples Counseling Marina Iandoli Williams Lmhc, Marina Williams, 2012-05-14 A session by session guide book for mental health practitioners on how to conduct evidence-based couples counseling. The book guides the therapist step by step through twelve sessions, and covers everything from the very first client phone call all the way through termination. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Couple Counselling Martin Payne, 2010-04-14 Couple Counselling outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, the author provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through to subsequent sessions. The book includes a wealth of supporting features including case examples, student exercises, points for reflection and memory-jog pages to use in practice. As well as chapters illustrating counselling for problems frequently experienced by couples, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, violence and abuse, key content includes: cultural differences in couples workvarieties of committed relationshipsresponses to specific difficultiesethical issues that arise as a result of working with two peoplegender differences in relation to the counsellor s own sexuality and/or gender the value of training courses and supervisionpersons narratives as a basis for changeThis book comprises a sound basis for one-to-one practitioners wishing to expand their expertise and practice of therapy into working with couples, and for students training in this mode of counselling. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Timothy J. O'Farrell, William Fals-Stewart, 2012-03-12 This eminently practical guide presents an empirically supported approach for treating people with substance abuse problems and their spouses or domestic partners. Behavioral couples therapy (BCT) explicitly focuses on both substance use and relationship issues, and is readily compatible with 12-step approaches. In a convenient large-size format, the book provides all the materials needed to introduce BCT; implement a recovery contract to support abstinence; work with clients to increase positive activities, improve communication, and reduce relapse risks; and deal with special treatment challenges. Appendices include a session-by-session treatment manual and 70 reproducible checklists, forms, and client education posters. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: From Conflict To Resolution Susan Heitler, 1993 In a dramatic theoretical breakthrough, psychologist Susan M. Heitler unties various schools of therapy with a powerful insight. Emotional healing depends on movement from conflict to resolution, as the title suggests. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy David E. Scharff, Jill Savege Scharff, 2018-05-01 In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy programs. This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the work. The international group of authors comes from the International Psychotherapy Institute based in Washington, DC, and the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) in London. The result is a richly international perspective that nonetheless has theoretical and clinical coherence because of the shared vision of the authors. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Betrayal Trauma Recovery Anne Blythe, 2019-05-05 A daily journal for women wondering if their husband's behavior is abusive. For women trying to determine if they should leave or stay. To help women decide if they want to divorce. A daily journal to help victims understand the reality and severity of their situation. For women who are considering separation or divorce due to their husband's lying, gaslighting, infidelity, emotional abuse, narcissistic behaviors. Visit btr.org for more information, and listen to the Betrayal Trauma Recovery podcast found on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and other podcasting platforms. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Attachment Theory in Practice Susan M. Johnson, 2019 Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. The primary developer of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples, Johnson now extends her attachment-based approach to individuals and families. The volume shows how EFT aligns perfectly with attachment theory as it provides proven techniques for treating anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Each modality (individual, couple, and family therapy) is covered in paired chapters that respectively introduce key concepts and present an in-depth case example. Special features include instructive end-of-chapter exercises and reflection questions. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce William Joseph Doherty, Steven Michael Harris, 2017 This book presents a five-session protocol for distressed couples to learn about what has happened to their relationship and each person's contributions to the problems, with the goal of clarifying a direction for their marriage |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fourth Edition Alan S. Gurman, 2008-06-24 This authoritative handbook provides a definitive overview of the theory and practice of couple therapy. Noted contributors--many of whom developed the approaches they describe--combine clear conceptual exposition with thorough descriptions of therapeutic techniques. In addition to presenting major couple therapy models in step-by-step detail, the book describes effective applications for particular populations and problems. Chapters adhere closely to a uniform structure to facilitate study and comparison, enhancing the book's utility as a reference and text. See also Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy, also edited by Alan S. Gurman, which presents in-depth illustrations of treatment. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Reconcilable Differences Andrew Christensen, Neil S. Jacobson, 1999-10-06 Every couple has arguments, but what happens when recurring battles begin to feel like full-scale war? Do you retreat in hurt and angry silence, hoping that a spouse who just doesn't get it will eventually see things your way? Spend the time between skirmishes gathering evidence that you're right? Demand some immediate changes--or else? Whether due to innate personality traits or emotional vulnerabilities, there are some aspects of our behavior that are difficult to alter. But these differences do not have to get in the way of healthy, happy, and long-lasting romance. This practical guide offers new solutions for couples frustrated by continual attempts to make each other change. Aided by thought-provoking exercises and lots of real-life examples, readers will learn why they keep having the same fights again and again; how to keep small incompatibilities from causing big problems; and how true acceptance can restore health to their relationships. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Understanding and Lifting Depression Without Drugs Joe Griffin, Ivan Tyrrell, 2005 |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Solution Building in Couples Therapy Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, 2012-09-14 This brief volume presents the basic premises of solution building, liberally enriched with examples. This is a remarkable book, the first of its kind, radical in its message, written about couples but also suitable for all manner of referrals.--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries ìElliott Connie has written a remarkable book. Read it and you will be taken on a journey. If you are new to the world of solution focused brief therapy, beware! This book could capture your heartÖAs Elliott says from the very beginning, solution focused brief therapy is simple, so simple it is really hard to learn. And from this book, if you set out to do so, you could teach yourself how to become a competent solution focused brief therapist. It is all here, laid out clearly, packed with examples from the real world of therapy, repeated and repeated like onion skins, each repetition releasing its own flavour, a variation on a theme, a new understanding of something already known.î Chris Iveson, MA BRIEF London, UK Working with couples presents psychotherapists and counselors with a unique set of challenges, such that many therapists prefer not to work with couples or attempt to avoid it entirely. In the first book written about solution focused therapy (SFT) with couples, author Elliott Connie describes how his use of SFT made working with couples a pleasure rather than a burden. The solution focused approach is one that facilitates cooperation between partners in the creation of an agreed-upon future, rather than merely focusing on the problems that have come to define the relationship. Beginning with a clear explanation of the assumptions and tenets required for the practice of SFT, this book presents a step-by-step breakdown of exactly how to conduct solution building sessions with couples. Each chapter focuses on a different part of the therapeutic process and includes sample dialogues, techniques, and vignettes drawn from the authorís own extensive practice. Readers will feel as though they themselves are going through the therapeutic process with the couples and observing the impact of each step of the process. Numerous exercises and common solution focused questions help readers integrate this new material into their repertoire for immediate use. Key Features: Provides a unique view of couples therapy in action using the solution focused approach Includes actual questions to ask clients, sample dialogues, and sample homework assignments Features examples drawn from actual cases, illustrating techniques used in practice with real couples Presents scales to measure progress and supporting research for the application of solution-focused therapy to couples counseling |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: The Origins of You Vienna Pharaon, 2023-02-21 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon (@mindfulmft, +683K followers) comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin—the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves, and the world around us. None of us had a perfect childhood; we are all carrying around behaviors that don’t serve us—and may in fact be hurting us. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says licensed marriage and family therapist Vienna Pharaon. Our past might create our patterns, but we can change those patterns for the better...with the right tools. In The Origins of You, Pharaon has unlocked a healing process to help us understand our Family of Origin—the family and framework we grew up within—and examine what worked (and didn’t) in that system. Unhealed pain (or “wounds”) in that Family of Origin will manifest in our adult behaviors in surprising ways, from work challenges to interpersonal struggles. But the good news: armed with the knowledge about our past, we can actually rewire our programming to meaningfully improve our relationships and our lives, right now and in the future. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been in therapy for decades, or whether therapy isn’t for you. It doesn’t matter if you had a great childhood, or a terrible one. You can create change and resolve things from the past that need your attention. Complete with guided introspection, personal experiences, client stories, frameworks for having difficult conversations, and worksheets to complement each chapter, The Origins of You will teach you how to break family patterns and help you liberate the way you live and love. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Doing Couple Therapy, First Edition Robert Taibbi, 2010-12-08 Wise, compassionate, and highly practical, this engaging text covers the entire process of therapeutic work with couples, from opening sessions and assessment through skills building, core issues, and termination. Students and novice couple therapists learn effective strategies for intervening with couples of any age who are struggling with acute crises or longstanding conflicts and power struggles. Rich with sensitive, detailed case material, the book features numerous exercises that help readers identify and develop their own strengths as practitioners. Self-care strategies and tips for getting the most out of supervision are provided. Special topics include how to address couple issues with only one partner and couple therapy applications for chronic mental health problems. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: It Takes One to Tango Winifred M. Reilly, 2017-04-04 With a focus on self-empowerment and resilience, this refreshing and witty relationship guide has a reassuring counterintuitive message for unhappy spouses: you only need one partner to initiate far-reaching positive change in a marriage. Conventional wisdom says that “it takes two” to turn a troubled marriage around and that both partners must have a shared commitment to change. So when couples can’t agree on how—or whether—to make their marriage better, many give up or settle for a less-than-satisfying marriage (or think the only way out is divorce). Fortunately, there is an alternative. “What distinguishes Reilly’s book is that she says a warring couple don’t have to agree on the goal of staying together; it takes one person changing, not both, to make a marriage work” (The New York Times). Marriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly has this message for struggling partners: Take the lead. Doing so is effective—and powerful. Through Reilly’s own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with, you’ll learn how to: -Focus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage -Take a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing, cajoling, or resorting to threats -Identify the “big picture” issues at the basis of your repetitive fights—and learn how to unhook from them -Be less reactive, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations -Develop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change Combining psychological theory, practical advice, and personal narrative, It Takes One to Tango is a “wise and uplifting” (Dr. Ellyn Bader, Director of The Couples Institute) guide that will empower those who choose to take a bold, proactive approach to creating a loving and lasting marriage. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: The Art of Co-therapy Bill Roller, Vivian Nelson, 1991-02-15 The house has new owners who do not care about cleaning. Soon the house is polluted with smoke, animal hair, powders and many aerosol sprays. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy Jay Lebow, Anthony Chambers, Douglas C. Breunlin, 2019-10-08 This authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format. Its sweeping range of entries covers major concepts, theories, models, approaches, intervention strategies, and prominent contributors associated with couple and family therapy. The Encyclopedia provides family and couple context for treating varied problems and disorders, understanding special client populations, and approaching emerging issues in the field, consolidating this wide array of knowledge into a useful resource for clinicians and therapists across clinical settings, theoretical orientations, and specialties. A sampling of topics included in the Encyclopedia: Acceptance versus behavior change in couple and family therapy Collaborative and dialogic therapy with couples and families Integrative treatment for infidelity Live supervision in couple and family therapy Postmodern approaches in the use of genograms Split alliance in couple and family therapy Transgender couples and families The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy incorporates seven decades of innovative developments in the fields of couple and family therapy into one convenient resource. It is a definitive reference for therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors, whether couple and family therapy is their main field or one of many modalities used in practice. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: GARF Assessment Sourcebook Lynelle C. Yingling, William E. Miller, Alice L. McDonald, Susan T. Galewaler, 2013-10-28 First published in 1998. The GARF Assessment Sourcebook is a comprehensive guide to the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) scale for family assessment. This comprehensive guide to the GARF is an essential tool for practicing professionals as well as students in training programs. It provides a thorough description of each element of the GARF, a comprehensive review of the GARF in relation to other marriage and family assessment tools, summaries of GARF research, and a comprehensive appendix of reproducible GARF-related forms. The GARF Assessment Sourcebook challenges marriage and family therapists to use, evaluate, and refine the GARF so that it may be included in the main portion of the next revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). As managed care becomes more pervasive and providers start giving more direction over treatment options, the GARF will become an important new tool in family mental health treatment to assist clinicians who are struggling to improve services and justify their work to the broader health-care community. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Rekindling Desire Barry McCarthy, Emily McCarthy, 2013-12-17 For over a decade Rekindling Desire has helped to restore and restructure sexuality in thousands of lives. This expanded edition continues the exploration of inhibited sexual desire and no-sex relationships by the author, who brings decades of knowledge and the expertise that comes from having treated almost 3,000 couples for sexual problems. Contained within are suggested strategies and exercises that help develop communication and sexual skills, as well as interesting case studies that open the doors to couples’ sexual frustrations. The shame, embarrassment, and hesitancy that individuals feel with themselves, and the resentment and blame they can feel towards their sexual partners, are explored and put into context. Whether you are married, cohabitating, or dating, or if you are 25, 45, or 75, reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on the path towards healthy, pleasure-oriented sexuality. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Therapeutic Alliances with Families Valentín Escudero, Myrna L. Friedlander, 2017-09-04 This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA) suitable to therapists across theoretical lines, the authors detail special challenges, empirically-supported strategies, and alliance-building interventions organized around common types of ongoing couple and family conflicts. Copious case examples illustrate how therapists can empower family members to discover their agency, find resources to address tough challenges, and especially repair their damaged relationships. These guidelines also show how to work effectively within multiple relationships in a family without compromising therapist focus, client individuality, or client safety. Included in the coverage: Using the therapeutic alliance to empower couples and families Couples’ cross-complaints Engaging reluctant adolescents...and their parents Parenting in isolation, with or without a partner Child maltreatment: creating therapeutic alliances with survivors of relational trauma Disadvantaged, multi-stressed families: adrift in a sea of professional helpers Empowering through the alliance: a practical formulation Therapeutic Alliances with Families offers powerful new tools for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working in couple and family therapy cases with reluctant clients and seeking specific, practical case examples and resources for alliance-related interventions. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Divorce Busting Michele Weiner Davis, 1993-02 A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics Mark M. Leach, Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel, 2018-03-15 The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics is a valuable resource for psychologists and graduate students hoping to further develop their ethical decision making beyond more introductory ethics texts. The book offers real-world ethical vignettes and considerations. Chapters cover a wide range of practice settings, populations, and topics, and are written by scholars in these settings. Chapters focus on the application of ethics to the ethical dilemmas in which mental health and other psychology professionals sometimes find themselves. Each chapter introduces a setting and gives readers a brief understanding of some of the potential ethical issues at hand, before delving deeper into the multiple ethical issues that must be addressed and the ethical principles and standards involved. No other book on the market captures the breadth of ethical issues found in daily practice and focuses entirely on applied ethics in psychology. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: A Roadmap for Couple Therapy Arthur C. Nielsen, 2016-06-17 A Roadmap for Couple Therapy offers a comprehensive, flexible, and user-friendly template for conducting couple therapy. Grounded in an in-depth review of the clinical and research literature, and drawing on the author’s 40-plus years of experience, it describes the three main approaches to conceptualizing couple distress and treatment—systemic, psychodynamic, and behavioral—and shows how they can be integrated into a model that draws on the best of each. Unlike multi-authored texts in which each chapter presents a distinct brand of couple therapy, this book simultaneously engages multiple viewpoints and synthesizes them into a coherent model. Covering fundamentals and advanced techniques, it speaks to both beginning therapists and experienced clinicians. Therapists will find A Roadmap for Couple Therapy an invaluable resource as they help distressed couples repair and revitalize their relationships. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Couples Therapy for Domestic Violence Sandra M. Stith, Eric E. McCollum, Karen H. Rosen, 2011 Up to 65% of couples who seek therapy for marital problems have had at least one prior violent episode. Unfortunately, therapists often miss this critical information because they do not effectively assess for it. This book presents a safety-focused approach to assessment and treatment of couples who choose to remain together after one or both partners have been violent. Treatment options for intimate partner violence have evolved alongside the growing awareness and broader definitions of domestic violence. Since 1997 the authors have conducted Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment (DVFCT), collected data, and refined their program. The authors outline their assessment and screening process and share case illustrations to demonstrate when conjoint treatment can be a safe and viable option. Readers get an overview of the 18-session course of DVFCT and tips for adapting it for multi-couple groups or for a single couple. The major tenets of solution-focused therapy, such as underscoring even the smallest of successes, are emphasized throughout, as are the following special features: -safety planning -mindfulness techniques for anger awareness and reduction -negotiated time-out procedures -drug and alcohol use modules -psychoeducational tools and materials on violence Therapists will learn how to assess intimate partner violence and help couples eliminate all forms of violence and begin on a positive path toward their vision of a healthy relationship. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples Leslie S. Greenberg, Susan M. Johnson, 1988-10-07 This influential volume provides a comprehensive introduction to emotionally focused therapy (EFT): its theoretical foundations, techniques, and clinical practice. EFT is a structured approach to couple therapy that integrates intrapsychic and interpersonal perspectives to help couples create new, more satisfying interactional patterns. Since the original publication of this book, EFT has been implemented and tested with growing numbers of couples in a wide range of settings. The authors, who codeveloped the approach, illuminate the power of emotional experience in relationships and in the process of therapeutic change. The book is richly illustrated with case examples and session transcripts. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Understanding Transferance Lester Luborsky, Paul Crits-Christoph, 1990-07-20 Discusses Luborsky's (psychiatry, U. of Pennsylvania) core-conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method as a way of examining objectively the patient-therapist relationship during transference. Studies utilizing this technique are described and proposed as empirical evidence validating Freud's ideas regarding this key stage of therapy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: The High-Conflict Couple Alan Fruzzetti, 2006-12-03 You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couples—pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame—need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love. When destructive emotions are at the heart of problems in your relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. If you're part of a high-conflict couple, you need to get control of your emotions first, to stop making things worse, and only then work on building a better relationship. The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in your relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. Other approaches will help you disclose your fears, longings, and other vulnerabilities to your partner and validate his or her experiences in return. You'll discover ways to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and to find true acceptance and closeness with the person you love the most. This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit — an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Eight Dates John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, Rachel Carlton Abrams, 2019-02-05 Whether you’re newly together and eager to make it work or a longtime couple looking to strengthen and deepen your bond, Eight Dates offers a program of how, why, and when to have eight basic conversations with your partner that can result in a lifetime of love. “Happily ever after” is not by chance, it’s by choice– the choice each person in a relationship makes to remain open, remain curious, and, most of all, to keep talking to one another. From award-winning marriage researcher and bestselling author Dr. John Gottman and fellow researcher Julie Gottman, Eight Dates offers an ingenious and simple-to-implement approach to effective relationship communication. Here are the subjects that every serious couple should discuss: Trust. Family. Sex and intimacy. Dealing with conflict. Work and money. Dreams, and more. And here is how to talk about them—how to broach subjects that are difficult or embarrassing, how to be brave enough to say what you really feel. There are also suggestions for where and when to go on each date—book your favorite romantic restaurant for the Sex & Intimacy conversation (and maybe go to a yoga or dance class beforehand). There are questionnaires, innovative exercises, real-life case studies, and skills to master, including the Four Skills of Intimate Conversation and the Art of Listening. Because making love last is not about having a certain feeling—it’s about both of you being active and involved. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology and Couple Therapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) Mona DeKoven Fishbane, 2013-09-30 Facilitating change in couple therapy by understanding how the brain works to maintain—and break—old habits. Human brains and behavior are shaped by genetic predispositions and early experience. But we are not doomed by our genes or our past. Neuroscientific discoveries of the last decade have provided an optimistic and revolutionary view of adult brain function: People can change. This revelation about neuroplasticity offers hope to therapists and to couples seeking to improve their relationship. Loving With the Brain in Mind explores ways to help couples become proactive in revitalizing their relationship. It offers an in-depth understanding of the heartbreaking dynamics in unhappy couples and the healthy dynamics of couples who are flourishing. Sharing her extensive clinical experience and an integrative perspective informed by neuroscience and relationship science, Mona Fishbane gives us insight into the neurobiology underlying couples’ dances of reactivity. Readers will learn how partners become reactive and emotionally dysregulated with each other, and what is going on in their brains when they do. Clear and compelling discussions are included of the neurobiology of empathy and how empathy and selfregulation can be learned. Understanding neurobiology, explains Fishbane, can transform your clinical practice with couples and help you hone effective therapeutic interventions. This book aims to empower therapists— and the couples they treat—as they work to change interpersonal dynamics that drive them apart. Understanding how the brain works can inform the therapist’s theory of relationships, development, and change. And therapists can offer clients “neuroeducation” about their own reactivity and relationship distress and their potential for personal and relational growth. A gifted clinician and a particularly talented neuroscience writer, Dr. Fishbane presents complex material in an understandable and engaging manner. By anchoring her work in clinical cases, she never loses sight of the people behind the science. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD Candice M. Monson, Steffany J. Fredman, 2012-07-23 Presenting an evidence-based treatment for couples in which one or both partners suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this step-by-step manual is packed with practical clinical guidance and tools. The therapy is carefully structured to address both PTSD symptoms and associated relationship difficulties in a time-limited framework. It is grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about interpersonal aspects of trauma and its treatment. Detailed session outlines and therapist scripts facilitate the entire process of assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 50 reproducible handouts and forms. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Hope After Betrayal Meg Wilson , 2018-07-31 Meg is a lantern guiding women through the twists and turns along this pain-filled path. --Lynn Marie Cherry, speaker and author of Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal Meg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed to years of sexual addiction. She has intimate knowledge of the devastation that follows--and she has come through the other side. In her groundbreaking Hope After Betrayal, Meg provides reassuring counsel, compassionate insight, and wise direction. By sharing her story, talking to other women who've been in a similar situation, and turning to Scripture, Wilson has helped countless readers through the steps to recovery--and shows how you can follow that same path out of the darkness. This newly revised and expanded edition includes new lessons Meg has learned over the last decade. A compelling final chapter by Meg's husband sheds further light on the difficult road to healing from sexual addiction, and a thoughtful new appendix addresses the effect sexual addiction has on children in the home. Hope After Betrayal is a strong and sure lifeline that thousands of women will reach for in a drowning moment. Meg offers careful, clear direction and encouragement in each chapter while unveiling the truth about sexual addiction...This valuable tool should be required reading for every wife and every mother of sons. --Robin Jones Gunn, best-selling author of the Sisterchicks Series |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Integrative Systemic Therapy William M. Pinsof, Douglas C. Breunlin, William P. Russell, Jay Lebow, Cheryl Rampage, Anthony L. Chambers, 2018 Providing a comprehensive framework for individual, couple, and family therapy, this resource offers a set of templates that enable therapists to navigate the course of therapy, as well as a treasure trove of case examples to illustrate how therapists can use the IST perspective to treat a wide variety of challenging problems. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Marriage Fitness Mort Fertel, 2004 Revolutionary step by step system marriage success. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Couple's Pre-counseling Inventory Richard B. Stuart, 1983-06-01 Questionnaire for couples to use about their relationship and its problem areas; for use in marriage counseling. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy Alan S. Gurman, Jay L. Lebow, Douglas K. Snyder, 2015-06-02 This book has been replaced by Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Sixth Edition, edited by Jay L. Lebow and Douglas K. Snyder, ISBN 978-1-4625-5012-8. |
| individual sessions in couples therapy: I Do! Jim Walkup, 2019-04-16 Strengthen Your Bond, Strengthen Your Marriage Planning a meaningful wedding is important. Planning for a happy and satisfying marriage is critical. Through in-depth, thought-provoking exercises, I Do! A Marriage Workbook for Engaged Couples helps prospective partners grow their love and solidify their partnership as they prepare to walk down the aisle together. From money to intimacy, this marriage workbook helps you dig deep into your relationship over the course of 7 chapters--each focusing on a different part of married life. Gain insight into each other and discover ways to feel closer before you finally and happily say, I do! I Do! A Marriage Workbook for Engaged Couples includes: LOVE, SEX, AND MONEY--Prepare for married life by exploring and sharing your feelings on communication, money, intimacy, children, beliefs and values, family and friends, and work. IN-DEPTH EXERCISES--Learn more about your partner through various exercises, including writing prompts, true/false questionnaires, worksheets, partner discussions, and more. TOOLS TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL--Use this marriage workbook's exercises as springboards for a deeper exploration into your relationship. Deepen your connection and prepare for your marriage with I Do! A Marriage Workbook for Engaged Couples. |
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Current clinical therapy practice (must include some couples and/or families). • License to practice psychotherapy in the state/province or country in which the applicant resides. • Proof of malpractice insurance. • Completion of a minimum of one graduate course on the practice of couples / family therapy at a registered institution or ...
Informed Consent for Gottman Method Couples Therapy
31 Jul 2020 · Assessment: This process includes an interview with the couple, followed by individual interviews with each partner. Couples also complete online questionnaires which gather ... When you attend couples therapy sessions, the couple is considered “the client,” and your mental health records therefore belong to both of you. This means that
Ethics in Couple and Family Therapy Theoretical Context for
couples’ therapy. How will the therapist manage confidentiality of what is disclosed in individual sessions if/when it has a significant impact on the couple relationship? For instance, what does a therapist do with the information if one partner Ethics in Couple and Family Therapy 3
Informed Consent for Gottman Method Couples Therapy
18 Nov 2019 · training in the Gottman Method of couples’ therapy. What to expect: Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy consists of two phases: 1. Assessment: This process includes an interview with the couple, followed by individual interviews with each partner. Couples also complete online questionnaires which provide
DOCUMENTATION OF INFORMED CONSENT FOR TREATMENT: COUPLES THERAPY
in an individual meeting, may not be held as confidential, and at our therapist’s discretion may be shared with the spouse/partner during a subsequent couple session. We agree to share responsibility with our therapist for the therapy process, including goal setting and termination. By entering into couples therapy, we accept that we both
INFORMED CONSENT FOR COUPLES THERAPY
The couple is the client: When you attend couples therapy sessions you as a couple are ... It is advisable (but optional) for each partner to schedule at least 1 individual session with m e as part of the couples therapy process. Limitations to couples therapy: Couple therapy will only be effective in cases where both
Combining Individual and Couple Therapy - JSTOR
Group therapy can help resolve difficult individual transferences (for example, some clients feel safer exploring negative transferences with peer support) and may prevent individual therapy dropouts. Many of these positive effects could apply to combined individual and couple therapy as well. I recommend adding individual therapy to a couples ...
Informed Consent for couples therapy - Better Therapy
Length of couples therapy: A completed couples therapy can take any-where from 5-20 scheduled sessions or more. Length of time depends on severity level of problems, history of past trauma/ infidelity/ or betrayals, and the presence of co-occurring emotional or psychological issues such
Overview of the Bader-Pearson Developmental Model - Couples …
Couples Therapy Sessions Ellyn Bader, Ph.D and Peter Pearson, Ph.D 445 Burgess Dr Suite 150 • Menlo Park, CA 94025 ... • Identify and express thoughts, feelings, and individual desires. • Help partners tolerate the anxiety inherent in recognition of differences.
The Gottman Method for Couples Counseling - Psychology Group
true interventions and techniques that I have used many times with couples and that lend a structural frame to the sessions which is important when tension sometimes run high. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication, increase intimacy, respect, and affection, remove barriers that create a
Chapter 1 An Overview of Psychodynamic Couple Therapy David E…
Psychodynamic couple therapy is an application of psychoanalytic theory. It draws on the psychotherapist’s experience of dealing with relationships in individual, group, and family therapy. Psychodynamic couple therapists relate in depth and get firsthand exposure to couples’ defenses and anxieties, which they interpret to foster change.
Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Common
Confidentiality: anything revealed in individual sessions can be shared in joint sessions, (only if relevant) About ACT & what the sessions will involve; importance of skills practice/experiments . ... This is good news if your partner is unwilling to participate in therapy; you can still improve it unilaterally. (However, this doesn’t mean ...
“No Secrets” Policy When Treating a Couple or Family - TRI EFT
anticipate certain problems that may occur when providing therapy to couples or families. If any of the statements made ... individual or two siblings) for one or more sessions. These sessions should be seen by you as a part of the work that I am doing with the family or the couple, unless otherwise indicated. If you are involved in one or more ...
Couples Counseling Initial Intake Form - myserenitycounselor.com
Couples Counseling Initial Intake Form Please note that while you will be asked to talk about your answers in sessions, your partner will not be shown this form. ... approach to therapy, while considering an individual’s health, sleep patterns, spirituality, relationship dynamics,
Divorce Therapy: Helping Families Separate and Reorganize
Divorce Therapy: Helping Families Separate and Reorganize Jonah Green, MSW March 10, 2010 Topics Why Divorce Therapy? WhatisDivorceTherapy?What is Divorce Therapy? Paths to Divorce Therapy A Brief History of Divorce and Divorce Therapy The Impact of Divorce Impasses of Divorce Principles for Practicing Divorce Therapy StageI:ManagingPreStage I: Managing …
Couples Consent for Treatment 2015 - rrpsychgroup.com
On occasion during the counseling process, individual partners may be seen for an individual counseling session. In this case, the individual session is still considered as part of the couple’s counseling relationship. Information disclosed during individual sessions may be relevant or even essential to the proper treatment of the couple.
ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK SESSIONS - Relationship …
Method Couples Therapy Level 1 or Level 2 clinical training manuals. Assessment Session 2: Individual Sessions The therapist next meets with each partner individually. The session time can be divided into two parts, half for each partner, or the …
Informed Consent Form for Couples Therapy
1293 Professional Drive, Suite A-101 Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 843.605.0514 office 843.962.5570 fax info@mylifecarecounseling.com . Informed Consent Form for Couples Therapy
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy for Intercultural Couples ...
that describe how these approaches can be used with couples in therapy whose problems are directly rooted in cultural dif-ferences. The aim of this study is to describe how therapists use IBCT to help intercultural couples navigate cultural dif-ferences, focusing on therapy and client change processes, change mechanisms, and recommendations.
The Four Session Assessment Developers in Couple Therapy
the couple, followed by individual sessions and then a feedback session where the therapist pro-vides the couple with feedback and a treatment plan (Chambers 2008, 2012; Fishel 2000; Karpel ... for indefinite therapy. Couples also present to therapy with a right/wrong mindset and are looking to the therapist to be the arbitrator. Ther-
Goals and Objectives of Couples Therapy - Clinton Power
Your job is to create your own individual objectives for being in therapy. Like a good coach, my job is to help you reach them. I have many tools to help you become a more ... A more powerful approach to your couples therapy sessions is for each person to do the following before each session: 1. Reflect on your objectives for being in therapy.
Therapeutic Exercises for Couples - bewellnj.com
Communication Worksheet for Couples- Getting to Know My Partner Closely Objectives: To help individuals learn more about their partners. ... your partner during a couples therapy session. Try to f'nd at least five answers for each question. The qualities that attracted me to my partner were:
Basic couple therapy competences - UCL
BASIC COUPLE THERAPY COMPETENCES Knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of couple therapy An ability to draw on knowledge that couples therapists focus on establishing and maintaining a balanced position in relation to the couple, in order: to focus attention on their relationship, rather than either partner, as the means
Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse: Rationale, Methods, and ...
20 outpatient couple sessions o ver 5 to 6 months. However, under some circumstances, therapists may administer gr oup behavioral couples therapy (GBCT), treating three or four couples together, usually over 9 to12 w eeks. If necessary, a course of brief behavioral couples therapy can be accomplished in six sessions. Appropriate Candidates for BCT
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), based
Extending the dyadic model of emotionally focused couple therapy to emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT) can be a natural and coherent progression. Individuals who have no ... as she struggles to translate EFT for couples into work with individuals (EFIT). Follow Emotion: The acronym EAR can, first of all, help us to keep attuned ...
The Art of the First Session - GoodTherapy
First sessions with couples First session with families Beyond the first session. ... Therapy: Guidelines When individual mental health issue interferes with couple progress – ...
Couples Intake Questionnaire - The Relationship Institute
Couples Intake Questionnaire 1. What is the problem that led you to decide to come to couples therapy? 2. How long have you and your partner been together? In what form (e.g., dating, living together, married)? 3. What initially attracted you to your partner? 4.
FACT SHEETS DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY
1. Weekly individual (one-to-one) therapy 2. Weekly skills-training sessions, usually in the form of groups 3. As-needed consultation between client and therapist outside of sessions 4. Weekly therapist consultation meeting in which DBT therapists meet to discuss their DBT cases Individual therapy occurs at least once a week. The content of the ...
Strategies for Working with Culturally Diverse Couples in HFCA
displeasure with the sessions, Cindy simply responded that she thought the sessions were fine. Unlike his wife, Stephen felt understood and supported by Linda, and expressed his contentment with the sessions. The couple continued to receive therapy from Linda for a …
Confidentiality and Family Therapy: Cultural Considerations
allowed to reveal any individual’s confidence in the system-oriented therapy setting without the prior written permission of that individual” (Kuo, 2009; p. 352). Gottlieb (1996) described four conceptually distinct variations of confidentiality that could be used with couples or families: 1) treat information disclosed
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Addressing Issues of Sexuality in Couples Therapy ... - Springer
Addressing Issues of Sexuality in Couples Therapy: Emotionally Focused Therapy Meets Sex Therapy Susan M. Johnson1 & Zoya Simakhodskaya2 & Michael Moran3 Published online: 6 April 2018 ... after 10 sessions of EFT, couples showed improved marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction [20]. The EFT Model of Couples Therapy
The Use of EMDR Therapy for Couples Considering Divorce: …
Couples’ Procedure When working with couples using EMDR therapy, D’Antonio (2010) indicated that treatment should begin with a joint session and use of a structured genogram with each partner to begin the history-taking process. After the initial joint session, he recommended individual EMDR-focused appointments with each member
Results of Gottman Method Couples Therapy with Gay and Lesbian Couples
man Method Couples Therapy is based on the scientific research of Drs. John and Julie Gottman (Gottman, 1991; Gottman & Gottman, 2015). The method consists of three parts: an assessment of the relationship, active treatment, and relapse prevention. GMCT assesses and attends to 3 sys- ... two individual sessions. The third session was a ...
A Randomized Clinical Trial of Behavioral Couples Therapy …
A Randomized Clinical Trial of Behavioral Couples Therapy ... individual-based treatment (IBT) for married or cohabiting SUD patients. ... choice discussed in initial BCT sessions. Third, if the ...
Initial Group Versus Individual Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress ...
12 May 2016 · disorders in 2010, 34% of those who initiated group therapy received eight or more sessions, whereas only 12% of those who initiated individual therapy received eight or more sessions (Mott, Hundt et al., 2014). However, it is unknown whether this differ-ential outcome applies to group therapy for PTSD.
DISCERNMENT COUNSELING FOR “MIXED-AGENDA” COUPLES
Sessions emphasize individual conversations with each part-ner. An analysis of 100 consecutive cases found that about half of the couples chose to start ... halting progress at best in couples therapy, with early dropouts and therapist frustration common in clinical practice (Doherty, 2011). Discernment counseling is appropriate for couples who are
A Guide to Finding Individual Therapy for Children and Youth
Individual, couples and group therapy by psychologists and psychological associates. Children’s Support Solutions Website: www.childrensupportsolutions.com 1131 Leslie Street Phone: 1 866 653 2397 Layla Care Website: https://www.layla.care Phone: 647 374-4210 Individual and group therapy by registered social workers, psychotherapists, and ...
VOLUME 32/NO. 3 Research Quarterly - PTSD: National Center …
CBCT for PTSD Phase 3 delivered to individual couples. The other ... also delivered in a multi-couple group retreat. The CBCT-CS group subsequently received two monthly post-retreat group sessions that reviewed communication skills. There were medium-to-large within-group ... well as successful use of it with an individual therapy for PTSD. This
Individual Drug Counseling - National Institutes of Health
domly assigned to individual drug counseling (IDC) plus group drug counseling (GDC), cognitive therapy (CT) plus GDC, support-ive-expressive psychodynamic therapy (SE) plus GDC, or GDC alone (Crits-Christoph et al. 1997). Individual treatment sessions were of-fered twice weekly for 3 months, then once weekly for 3 months.
COUPLE RESCUE SKILL-BUILDER - Coherence Therapy
couples tells us that very often she _ is the partner seeking greater emotional intimacy and he _ is the partner who is less familiar with that way of relating. So, we use pronouns reflecting that common constellation in the couple example that threads …
Therapists' Tips for Closing Sessions, including Homework …
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Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse - APA PsycNet
Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) is an evidence-based conjoint treatment for substance abuse. The ... individual-based therapy. BCT, on the other hand, has two primary objectives that evolve from ... possibility of substance-related conflicts occurring between therapy …
RCS Marital Therapy Contract x - Redwood Counseling Services
Couples Therapy starts with an assessment of the relationship past and present. 2. The clients understand the information discussed in couple’s therapy is for therapeutic ... If the counselor sees either member of the couple for individual sessions or has contact between sessions with either member of the couple, the contents of those ...
Individual Therapy Manual for Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of …
Individual Therapy Manual for Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression Author: Ricardo F. Munoz Subject: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the two manual-based forms of short-term psychotherapy that have been recognized as effective by the AHRQ guidelines panel. Created Date: 6/9/2006 8:07:34 AM
