Brief Therapy for Couples - Helping Partners Help Themselves

A must for managed care work, this title presents an evidence-based framework for treating couples effectively in as few as one or two (and as many as 25) sessions of highly focused therapeutic work. Providing guidelines for assessment and intervention, the author shows how to help each partner acquire skills to modify their individual behavior in the service of joint relationship goals.

List of contents

1. The Nature and Significance of Relationship Problems
2. Approaches to Couple Therapy and Their Effectiveness
3. Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy
4. Assessment, Part I: Overview and Initial Session
5. Assessment, Part II: Second and Any Subsequent Sessions
6. Feedback and Negotiation
7. Brief Self-Change
8. Relationship Psychoeducation
9. Therapist-Guided Change

About the author

W. Kim Halford, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia in 1978. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Halford's practice, clinical research, and publications have focused predominantly on work with couples. He has presented clinical workshops on his approach to couple therapy in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and North America.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Halford, W Kim Halford, W. Kim Halford, Halford W. Kim
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2001
• EAN: 9781572301795
• ISBN: 978-1-57230-179-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Treatment Manuals for Practiti; Treatment Manuals for Practitioners; Treatment Manuals for Practiti
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychiatry, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships