Helping Couples Overcome Infidelity provides clinicians with tangible, research-oriented intervention strategies that can guide couples through the aftermath of an affair. In the treatment of an affair, there are several key elements that couples need to work through as a team, including assessment, working through the crisis phase, rebuilding trust, acknowledging the pain infidelity causes, repairing relationship issues, creating a dynamic sex life, choosing to stay in or leave the relationship, and forgiveness. This book will cover nine milestones in detail and offer a framework for how clinicians can offer helpful treatment at each step. Also included are case studies of particularly challenging couples that the author has worked with and a section at the end of each chapter on therapist self-care.
From leading marital therapists and researchers, this unique book presents a three-stage therapy approach for clinicians working with couples struggling in the aftermath of infidelity.
In this volume, Paul Peluso has assembled a truly impressive list of contributors from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, including marital therapy, family therapy, evolutionary psychology, marriage research, and cyberstudies, with the ...
An expert with years of success in helping couples overcome infidelity shows how a marriage can not only survive but be stronger after couples confront the reasons behind indiscretions.
Based on the only program that’s been tested--and proven--to relieve destructive emotions in the wake of infidelity, this compassionate book offers support and expert advice from a team of award-winning couple therapists.
Recover from relationship infidelity with this book of clear and empathetic strategies that every couple can use.
Now, Dr. Gottman offers surprising findings and advice on the characteristic that is at the heart of all relationships: Trust. Dr. Gottman has developed a formula that precisely calculates any couple's loyalty level.
If you have had an affair but have regrets and hope to save your marriage, don't let another mistake-ridden day go by without reading this book!
Schlossberger and Hecker (1996) caution that “Therapists who have knowledge of the adultery but remain silent may be in the ethically ... Men with such a pact were more likely to reveal an affair, believing that they would be forgiven, ...
You can have a relationship that you will both cherish for a lifetime. Ten years ago, Gary and Mona Shriver experienced the devastation caused by adultery, and in the course of trying to save themselves, they wrote this book.
A guide for therapists and counselors, Pre-Marital Counseling addresses the common problems couples face when starting or considering marriage.