Download or read book Couple Vitality written by Susanne M Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can create a harmonious couple relationship full of vitality and love. As you deep dive into this book's Character Qualities and Couple Vitalizers, you prevent the heartache of conflict and build unity.
Download or read book Self Within Marriage written by Richard M. Zeitner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self Within Marriage combines the theoretical orientations of object-relations theory, self psychology, and systems theory as a way of understanding and working with couples and individuals whose relationship and emotional difficulties have centered on the common conundrum of balancing individuality and intimacy. Based on detailed case examples and couple therapy techniques, Self Within Marriage provides individual and couple therapists with a refreshing new framework for working with clients and for helping them understand who they are as individuals and as partners.
Download or read book Couple Resilience written by Karen Skerrett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational alliance that offers an opportunity and challenge to go beyond the self - to develop as individuals and as a relationship. The contributors to this volume represent a range of perspectives that integrate conventional relationship science and innovative empirical and theoretical work on the importance of meaning-making, narrative construction, intersubjectivity, forgiveness, and positive emotion in couple life. The volume also offers a unique anchor point - ‘We-ness’ as it relates to the intersection between shared, personal identity and well-being. Under-examined relational contexts such as resilience among LGBT partners and sexual resilience during illness adds further refinement of thought and application.
Download or read book The Mindful Couple written by Robyn D. Walser and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us want to be fully accepted in our relationships, yet it can be difficult to fully accept our partners for who they are. This insightful guide for couples is based on a simple concept: Act out of kindness, love, and acceptance, and you will open your relationship for the creation of greater kindness, love, and acceptance. With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapeutic approach, this book will help you identify your core values and discover, as a couple, the beauty that is available to you and your partner when you bring greater awareness and values-guided behavior to your relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices you can do alone or with your partner to help you build a vital relationship.
Download or read book Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides written by Jean Pieniadz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, cogent, and comprehensive account of the rationale and methods of Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue, this volume introduces models of facilitated dialogue designed specifically to end polarization. This book offers a straightforward and comprehensive encounter with some of the most effective theories and methods to facilitate dialogue and disrupt deadening power struggles between life partners, grown children and parents, siblings, co-workers, and others whose conflicts have led to harmful polarizations. The book is based on ideas and relational models from mindfulness and psychoanalysis that have not been applied in this unique way before. This melding of mindfulness (containment, concentration, equanimity, maintaining a "mindful gap") with the psychoanalytic understanding of projection and projective identification (the "hijacking" of our subjective experiences) creates much more than light at the end of the tunnel. It engenders the acceptance of another that leads to love and insight, based on the recognition and acknowledgement of our autonomy and our common humanity in the midst of conflict. This book introduces a new, revolutionary model for couple therapists, life coaches, group facilitators, and leaders to open a mindful space that increases witnessing capacities in the midst of emotional conflict without imposing goals of agreement, reconciliation or compromise.
Download or read book Unlikely Couples written by Thomas E. Wartenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unlikely Couples, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate due to its class, racial, or gender composition) explore, expose, and criticize societal attit
Download or read book The Don t Sweat Guide for Couples written by Richard Carlson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Don't Sweat Guide for Couples shows men and women how to make their intimate relationships more joyful and stress-free while maintaining their loving connection. Addressing such concerns as: Remember the One You Fell For Forget to Keep Score Aim for the Extraordinary Be the Bright Spot in Your Partner's Day Appreciate the Benefit of a Doubt Cherish the Child in Your Partner and many more, this book provides easy-to-do, yet profoundly life-changing strategies that will teach couples how to be less reactive, how to communicate more effectively, and how to have a more peaceful and carefree relationship.
Download or read book Operation Thriving Marriage written by Bryon Harvey and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn’t it be nice if marriage had a practical, user-friendly manual? Whether you are navigating difficult circumstances beyond your control, managing relationships with kids and in-laws, or balancing finances, work, and schedules, prioritizing your marriage can be tricky. But it is necessary! Bringing unique vantages of counseling individuals and couples in the church, the law, and the military, Bryon and Jennifer Harvey bring a wealth of experience and perspective to Operation: Thriving Marriage. Marriage isn’t a lawsuit, so don’t settle for merely surviving in your marriage. If you truly want the best that God has for you in your marriage, applying this book will stop problems before they start, help you to resolve issues together, and position you to grow into the couple that God designed you to be. With God’s plan and help, together you can make your marriage thrive!
Download or read book Couples Gender and Power written by Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] comprehensive, critical, empirical, and practical compilation of investigations about how diverse couples are trying to implement change and pursue equality in their relationships." -Katherine R. Allen, PhD Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University "[A] true gift to couple researchÖ.The studies reported in this marvelously disciplined collection hold living implications for couples and their therapists." -Evan Imber-Black Director, Center for Families and Health, Ackerman Institute for the Family While numerous couples strive for equality in their relationships, many are unaware of the insidious ways in which gender and power still affect them-from their career choices to communication patterns, child-rearing, housework, and more. Written for mental health professionals and others interested in contemporary couple relationships, this research-based book shows how couples are able to move beyond the dangers of gendered inequality and the legacy of hidden male power. The book analyzes the relationships of couples from various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The contributors present innovative clinical interventions, and suggest strategies therapists can use to help couples transform their relationships from being gender-based to equality-based. Explores these key issues: The risks of being in a relationship ruled by "gender legacy" behavior The differences between couples who get caught in gender legacy patterns and those who do not Gender-based patterns across the life cycle, including newly formed couples; early marriage; child-rearing; mothering and fathering Gendered power in couples dealing with illness; ethnic and racial differences; immigration and displacement issues
Download or read book The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships written by John H. Harvey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editor’s bring together major scholars from the diversity of fields working on close relationship topics to examine past contributions and new directions in sexuality. The emphasis is on theoretical integration and stimulation, methodological r
Download or read book Engaging Couples written by Andrew Balfour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an ‘atomised’ focus gives rise to. They are evident in the chasm that can exist between child and adult mental health care, between competing therapeutic approaches and, most importantly for this volume, in the segmentation of support for adults who are partners as well as parents. The contributors, all with substantial experience of providing front-line services, identify the problem their intervention is designed to address, provide a conceptual justification for the approach they have used and supply evidence for its effectiveness. Vivid illustrations bring the work to life and provide examples of best practice whose relevance can readily be transported to different settings. Unusual in bringing together approaches that encompass internal and external realities in responding to the challenges of physical constraint, emotional distress and an often-volatile social environment, the contributions are assembled to highlight a common thread that can inform services at different stages of the life course. Each chapter is accompanied by a commentary from specialists in their field who elucidate and critique the key points made by the authors and help the experience of reading the book to be one of dialogue. Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic in Work with Families explores new ways of approaching some of the key issues of contemporary family life, including depression, living with long-term conditions, inter-parental conflict and domestic abuse to name but a few, refracting them through a lens that sees our relationships as fundamental to the fabric of our lives – the most important social capital of all. It represents essential reading for clinicians and family practitioners of all persuasions, and those that train and support them in their work.
Download or read book The Intimate Couple written by Jon Carlson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Sex on Saturday Night written by Patricia Hayes Smith and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships always begin with high vitality, the “vroom-vroom” of attraction and intimacy. But, often, that vroom-vroom subsides, societal expectations persist, life events happen, and partners are left wondering where the intimacy went and why their relationship seems so unfulfilling. Patricia Hayes Smith, in her book, Sex on Saturday Night: The Art of Intimacy, tackles this issue by looking at how behavior contributes to the vitality of a relationship and how partners interact. She delves into why partners behave the way they do; moreover, why YOU behave the way to do. Is your partner full of Warrior or Wildman archetypal energy? Are you in your mental, Achieving Self, and suppressing your Loving Self? Are you in love with being in love? What distractions has your partner created to avoid intimacy? Is your partner in male energy today? Learn about all these aspects of Self and what those aspects mean to a relationship. In Sex on Saturday Night: The Art of Intimacy, learn what steps you can take to understand yourself, remove thoughts and feelings that are at the root of dysfunction, and, thus, revitalize your relationship. In addition, you are given doable suggestions on how to maintain a healthy and vital relationship. A must read if you are ready to put the intimacy back into your relationship!
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cognitive Behavior Therapy written by Stephanie Felgoise and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-18 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hallmarks of cognitive behavior therapy is its diversity today. Since its inception, over twenty five years ago, this once revolutionary approach to psychotherapy has grown to encompass treatments across the full range of psychological disorders. The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Behavior Therapy brings together all of the key aspects of this field distilling decades of clinical wisdom into one authoritative volume. With a preface by Aaron T. Beck, founder of the cognitive approach, the Encyclopedia features entries by noted experts including Arthur Freeman, Windy Dryden, Marsha Linehan, Edna Foa, and Thomas Ollendick to name but a few, and reviews the latest empirical data on first-line therapies and combination approaches, to give readers both insights into clients’ problems and the most effective treatments available. • Common disorders and conditions: anxiety, depression, OCD, phobias, sleep disturbance, eating disorders, grief, anger • Essential components of treatment: the therapeutic relationship, case formulation, homework, relapse prevention • Treatment methods: dialectical behavior therapy, REBT, paradoxical interventions, social skills training, stress inoculation, play therapy, CBT/medicine combinations • Applications of CBT with specific populations: children, adolescents, couples, dually diagnosed clients, the elderly, veterans, refugees • Emerging problems: Internet addiction, chronic pain, narcolepsy pathological gambling, jet lag All entries feature reference lists and are cross-indexed. The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Behavior Therapy capably fills practitioners’ and educators’ needs for an idea book, teaching text, or quick access to practical, workable interventions.
Download or read book Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Authors of the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, Les and Leslie Parrott focus their groundbreaking, frontline expertise on helping couples face the unique challenges of remarriage with faith, perseverance, and hope. This comprehensive guide explores nine critical questions you need to ask before--and after--you remarry. This book will help you and your partner cut through the conflicting advice and find clarity for your unique situation, including how to: Know whether you're ready to marry again Face the myths of remarriage honestly Identify and meld your love styles Say what you mean and understand what you hear Fight a good fight Combine a family Includes a discount code for the truly revolutionary SYMBIS Assessment so you can personalize the content specifically to you and your fiancé. In addition, separate workbooks with self-tests are available for both men and women, and an audio version can be used in groups or by both partners.
Download or read book Preparing Couples for Love and Marriage written by James L. Furrow and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good preparation enables couples to take a first step together in facing their future challenges. While no one can smooth away all the rough spots in the marital road ahead, couples can be coached to pay attention to warning signs, see the bumps before they hit them, and deal more skillfully with inevitable conflicts. This book provides pastors with a framework and tools for this ministry. The good news is that you don’t need any formal background in counseling, because the kind of work we’re talking about isn’t counseling—it’s coaching—a coach who can help couples to respond positively to the differences between them. It’s not about having the answers; but is it about helping couples manage difficulties before they become serious threats to the marriage.
Download or read book 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage written by David and Claudia Arp and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small groups of couples can learn important skills and revitalize their marriages with this fun and unique approach. "You will love growing together while going out together." -John Gray Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Remember back to your dating days—the excitement you felt? Now you can reclaim that same spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten intentional, memory-making dates. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, and fun , and will help you * Communicate better * Put the sizzle back in sex * Process anger and resolve conflicts * Develop spiritual intimacy * Appreciate your differences * Balance busy lifestyles * And much more! Enjoy your dates alone as a couple or start your own 10 Great Dates group in your church or community. You probably already know 5-6 couples who could benefit from time-out to build their marriage and enrich their relationship with 10 Great Dates. See 10 Great Dates DVD Curriculum for everything you need to lead this effective, husband-friendly and fun program.
