Most therapeutic approaches, especially those of a cognitive orientation, are not very effective in dealing with high conflict relationships--couples often heading toward divorce by the time they seek help. Counseling Couples in Conflict is a resource for counselors and therapists who want to be ready for these uniquely difficult cases. Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model Mark Yarhouse and James Sells point the way beyond the cycle of pain towards marital healing.
The book provides practical and specific approaches to helping these couples and the issues that a minister must deal with in order to be useful to them.
Illustrated with case studies, this book teaches couples and sex therapists the comprehensive, integrative treatment approach of master conflict therapy (MCT), which combines psychoanalytic conflict theory and Bowen Theory with the basic ...
It retains the same comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and logical progression found in the original. This book consists of essentially two parts: Part I is about the tools for resolution.
Luxton , M. 1986. Two hands for the clock : Changing patterns in the gendered division of labour in the home . In M. Luxton and H. Rosenberg ( Eds . ) Through the Kitchen Window : The Politics of Home and Family .
This is written in a way in that it allows the reader to sit in with the counsellor and see, hear and feel what is happening during couples therapy. The...
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 ...
The case example below highlights this dynamic: Counselor: Fritz, tell me more about what your anger looks like. Fritz: My anger? I don't know. I think it's pretty normal. I just get aggravated over normal things.
Emotional healing depends on movement from conflict to resolution; therapists, whatever their belief system, serve as guides along the way. Conflict resolution strategies are described in lively case examples.
. . This book is readable (I couldn’t put it down!), funny, warm, practical, and powerful.” —Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Radical Acceptance of Everything and The Power of Focusing
Couples in Conflict: New Directions in Marital Therapy