techniques and approaches for effective practice /
First Statement of Responsibility
Gerald R. Weeks and Stephen T. Fife.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Third edition.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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pt. I Basic Principles and Processes of Couple Therapy -- 1. Couple Therapy and the Intersystem Approach -- 2. Assessment, Case Formulation, and Avoiding Common Mistakes -- 3. Orienting Couples to Therapy -- 4. Systemic Conceptualization and Treatment -- 5. Keeping Therapy Balanced -- 6. Moving from Content to Process -- 7. Building and Managing Intensity -- 8. Systemic Therapy with Individual Clients -- 9. Common Factors of Change in Couple Therapy -- pt. II Basic Approaches and Techniques -- 10. Enhancing Intimacy in Relationships -- 11. Reframing -- 12. Communication Techniques -- 13. Conflict Resolution -- 14. Cognitive Techniques and Interventions -- 15. Techniques of Relationship Contracting -- 16. Working with Emotions -- 17. Homework: Extending Techniques from the Office to Home -- 18. Treating Infidelity -- 19. Working with Highly Reactive Couples -- 20. Solidifying Change and Maintaining Progress.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This third edition of Couples in Treatment helps readers conceptualize and treat couples from multiple perspectives and with a multitude of techniques. The authors do not advocate any single approach to couple therapy and instead present basic principles and techniques with wide-ranging applicability and the power to invite change, making this the most useful text on integrative, systemic couple therapy. Throughout the book the authors consider the individual, interactional, and intergenerational systems of any case. Gerald Weeks' Intersystems Model, a comprehensi.