This book is designed to help entry-level marital therapists learn the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice. The authors emphasize the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice and focus on the current trends toward accountability and the requirements of mental health care brought about by the managed care environment. Stressing the relational perspective, the book helps readers to learn how to develop multiple views of the problem and select appropriate skills.
The Marriage Clinic presents a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman's much heralded research on marital success and failure.
Treating Couples in Crisis: Fundamentals and Practice in Marital Therapy
The unique contribution of this book is that the authors provide a step-by-step approach to teaching these communication skills within a behavioral framework.
I have been doing conjoint marital psychotherapy for thirteen years and have had the experience of working with over 250 couples who have become meaningfully involved in the therapy ; most patients who call upon me are aware of the way ...
The techniques described here are the familiar ones of establishing contracts and contigencies and training in communication and problem-solving skills.
Published in 1996, Fundamentals of Marital Therapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy.
A guide for therapists and counselors, Pre-Marital Counseling addresses the common problems couples face when starting or considering marriage.
The betrayer apologizes for specific events in the betrayal process, changes deceptive behaviors, ... The Gottman trust study revealed negative affect exchanges and the process of betrayal occur due to faulty emotional attunement ...
s/ he expects from therapy. Couples may expect the therapists to demand, as a condition of therapy, that the EMS stop. Therapeutic resistance in these cases may be high, at least initially, especially on the part of the spouse engaging ...
Self-soothing and other-soothing in emotion-focused therapy for couples. In A.S. Gurman (Ed.), Clinical casebook of couple therapy (pp. 255–280). New York: Guilford Press Gollan, J.K., Friedman, M.A. & Miller, I. W. (2002).