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Schema Therapy for Couples represents the first practitioner guide to detail effective Schema Therapy techniques in couple and relationship therapy.
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About the Authors 3Preface 4Acknowledgments 6Introduction 7Chapter 1 What Schema Therapy Offers 9Chapter 2 The Initial Contract and First Interview 19Chapter 3 Relationship Assessments 32Chapter 4 Understanding the Origins of Relational Styles 45Chapter 5 Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice in Couple Therapy 55Chapter 6 Schemas and Modes 64Chapter 7 Approaching Schema Therapy for Couples 85Chapter 8 Mode Mapping and Mode Cycle Clash-cards 95Chapter 9 Interventions in Couple Treatment 117Chapter 10 Common Problems in Couple Therapy, including Affairs, Forgiveness, and Violence 145Chapter 11 Differentiating Needs from Wants, and the Challenge of Integration 181Chapter 12 Building Friendship, Building the Healthy Adult 198Appendix: Self-care for the Couple Therapist 210References 216Abbreviations 225Index of Therapy Tools and Interventions 226Index 228
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"Schema Therapy with Couples is a very helpful addition to the clinical couples' therapy literature, integrating the individual challenges people face in their own growth with managing a relationship with someone else who also faces their own individual challenges. Drs. DiFrancesco, Roediger, and Stevens provide a guide through this very difficult but everyday terrain that every couples therapist must navigate." John Gottman, Ph.D., Author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work "In 25 years of treating couples and closely following the literature, this is the most significant development I have seen. Schema Therapy with Couples provides a highly developed, systems-oriented theoretical model. With its foundation in schema therapy, this approach can deftly deal with the most severely dysfunctional couples by focusing on personality dysfunction, change at a deep cognitive-emotional level, and potent emotive techniques. This is an extraordinary volume, chock-full of figures, instructive clinical examples, and powerful clinical interventions, that will undoubtedly influence how you treat couples." Lawrence P. Riso, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Washington DC "For several years, the authors of this book have been active in a schema therapy for couples workgroup and now share their own insights and those of colleagues. They show how the central concepts and approach to case formulation and intervention in schema therapy provide a coherent integrative framework, and offer a set of guiding and enabling principles as well as practical examples of how to implement specific schema therapy interventions. Rich in clinical examples, this book will enable readers to encounter the distinctive contribution of the schema therapy approach to couples therapy." David Edwards, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Rhodes University and Schema Therapy Institute of South Africa "This book teaches the basics of couples in conflict, and provides a deeper, need-based understanding of what goes wrong in relationships. Therapists are offered a toolkit to meet, understand, evaluate and help couples to stay together despite interpersonal turmoil. Schema Therapy with Couples opens a new window of understanding and provides innovative ways to help." Gerhard Zarbock, PhD, Clinical psychologist, Director of IVAH, Hamburg, Germany, co-author of Mindfulness for Therapists
