cognitive therapy with couples

This work probes the language of family systems therapy, demonstrating how metaphors shape our understanding both of families themselves and of the goals and processes of therapy. The author shows how a deeper understanding of standard theoretical metaphors and the development of alternatives can help clinicians and students identify hidden assumptions, incorporate perspectives that may otherwise be overlooked, and forge creative meanings in clinical practice.

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The eight training volumes on Christian Counselling and Family Therapy form the backbone of the popular Advanced Diploma in Counselling and Family Therapy (Christian) course conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Counselling. The Volumes present an up-to-date, biblical, structured, systematic and comprehensive coverage of Christian counselling. These are days when the provision of parameters that do not compromise biblical presuppositions are absolutely vital. If you are a serious worker in the field of contemporary Christian counselling, or plan to be, the volumes will be of immense value in guiding you along the way. These volumes should be on the shelves of all pastoral counsellors, family therapists and those who desire a well integrated, biblical base for their ministry. Dr Bruce Litchfield, PhD (Counselling) and Nellie Litchfield, BA (Counselling), Adv.Dip.CFT have been in professional therapy practice for 15 years at Canberra, having a special interest and expertise in marriage and family therapy, addiction therapy, sexual therapy and individual psychotherapy.

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Marriage and Family Therapy: A Sociocognitive Approach is a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to sociocognitive therapy. It is rich with transcripts and case examples, culled from the authors’more than thirty-five years of practice, providing you with valuable background information on helping difficult-to-reach and hard-to-help populations.

In practical language, this volume takes you step-by-step through methods of assessment and change that are useful in traditional and nontraditional families and couples. With clear language and taxonomy for family troubles and their resolution, Marriage and Family Therapy provides conceptual handles to guide you in learning intervention strategies, enabling you to work effectively with, most notably, lower working-class and poor inner-city, African-American families. A highlight of the book is the detailed look at terminal and instrumental interaction hypotheses and how they can be applied in actual therapy situations.

With Marriage and Family Therapy as a guide, you will develop multiple skills and methods that equip you to better handle the challenging task of helping troubled families and couples.The first two chapters present the theoretical framework of the sociocognitive approach. In the third chapter, the assessment and change concepts central to Dr. Hurvitz’s approach are introduced. The last four chapters show how these humanist principles are applied through the phases of opening, change-producing, and termination in therapy, creating an invaluable book for marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, and educators.

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Most people live in couple relationships for a good part of their lives, and many couples experience distress and seek help. To support the professionals who treat these couples, Dr Nelsen organizes material from systems and cognitive-behavioural approaches as well as ego psychology and object relations theory in one solid, nonjudgmental volume. It opens with a rationale for the eclectic position, drawing on Dr Nelsen’s years of experience as a therapist, educator and author, and it reveals her appreciation and respect for couples’ strengths from the initial alliance-building interview forward. The book advances one step at a time through the process of assessment and individual and joint evaluation to the appropriate strategies and inteventions for treating issues of communication, problem-solving, insight and intimacy. Dr Nelsen is unfailingly attentive to sociocultural factors and, in keeping with her own professional expertise, gives thoughtful consideration to special circumstances: partners of the same sex or of different ethnicity; couples who have already separated; cases in which an extra-marital affair has been disclosed, or symptoms of anxiety, depression or personality disorder have surfaced; and narcissistic pairings, where both people manifest extreme sensitivity to hurt and blame.

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If you or your partner is dealing with an alcohol problem, the program outlined in this book can help you both. Over the course of 12 sessions with a therapist, the drinking partner will be taught various skills and strategies for quitting drinking, as well as dealing with high-risk solutions in which there is strong temptation to drink. Throughout the program, the non-drinking partner will learn how to provide support and change certain behaviors that may contribute to the drinking partner’s problem. As a couple, you will practice communication skills and participate in pleasant activities in order to improve your relationship and enhance intimacy. You and your partner will work together to overcome the drinking problem once and for all.

Teamwork and dedication are required for a successful outcome. If you and your partner are willing to work together, you will no doubt find yourselves on the way to a healthier and happier relationship at the end of the treatment.

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Chronically warring couples, children used as pawns, spouses who prolong the moment of separation-these are the components of the “difficult divorce.” Although families caught in these dilemmas are familiar to every therapist, most divorce therapies either focus too much on the adults’ conflicts or stress the children’s plight without helping the parents reorganize their lives. Drawing on the authors’ longitudinal Families of Divorce Project, this superb clinical book presents for the first time an empirically tested approach that goes beyond these limits.The authors found that both children and adults fare best when the spouses learn to control their anger and focus on their children’s welfare. By integrating family-therapy principles and individual dynamics, they have devised a unique method of face-to-face problem solving, sometimes with the entire family, often in sessions with individual members, to help restore parental responsibility and to realign relationships within the divorcing family. Therapy of the Difficult Divorce is authoritative, humane, and above all practical. It will be welcomed by all therapists as the classic guide to treating families of divorce.

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Get the most from your ability to work with clients suffering the effects of chronic anger

The Handbook of Anger Management provides therapists and counselors with a comprehensive review of anger and aggression management techniques, presenting specific guidelines to a number of immediately useful methods. Clinical psychotherapist Ronald T. Potter-Efron, Director of the Anger Management Center At First Things First, LTD, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, offers straightforward solutions to the complicated problem of anger, detailing core treatment options and intervention methods that meet the needs of individual clients, couples, families, and groups. This practical guidebook examines rage, aggression, hostility, resentment, hatred, anger avoidance, and chronic anger and includes fact-based case studies that illustrate effective theory and practice.

The Handbook of Anger Management guides therapists through the process of assessing anger in their clients, determining the reasons forâ??and the consequences ofâ??anger and aggression. The book examines individual and group modalities, using behavioral, cognitive, affective, and existential/spiritual treatment approaches to define anger and anger problems and how they relate to social learning, to examine the relationship between anger and aggression and between anger and domestic violence, and to address the concept of â??healthy anger.â?

The Handbook of Anger Management examines:

• four major intervention areas that can help lessen anger
• the pros and cons of group versus individual counseling
• treating angry children, adolescents, and families
• how patterns of resentment and hatred are developed
• self-forgiveness
• five damaging aspects of anger turned inward
• the neurological aspects of anger
• and much more!

The Handbook of Anger Management is an essential guidebook for psychologists, social workers, anger management therapists, and domestic abuse counselors, and for academics working in mental health fields.
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