Download or read book Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice written by Ira D. Glick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice has been the psychiatric and mental health clinician's trusted companion for over four decades. This new fifth edition delivers the essential information that clinicians of all disciplines need to provide effective family-centered interventions for couples and families. A practical clinical guide, it helps clinicians integrate family-systems approaches with pharmacotherapies for individual patients and their families. Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice draws on the authors’ extensive clinical experience as well as on the scientific literature in the family-systems, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neuroscience fields.
Download or read book Marital Therapy in Psychiatric Practice written by Linden F. Frelick and published by New York : Brunner/Mazel. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro surgio como resultado de una conferencia sobre terapia marital dentro de la practica psiquiatrica. Las distintas contribuciones atienden a distintos aspectos de la relacion de pareja.
Download or read book Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy written by Alan S. Gurman and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal supplemental text, this instructive casebook presents in-depth illustrations of treatment based on the most important couple therapy models. An array of leading clinicians offer a window onto how they work with clients grappling with mild and more serious clinical concerns, including conflicts surrounding intimacy, sex, power, and communication; parenting issues; and mental illness. Featuring couples of varying ages, cultural backgrounds, and sexual orientations, the cases shed light on both what works and what doesn't work when treating intimate partners. Each candid case presentation includes engaging comments and discussion questions from the editor. See also Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fourth Edition, also edited by Alan S. Gurman, which provides an authoritative overview of theory and practice.
Download or read book Treating Difficult Couples written by Douglas K. Snyder and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential handbook describes effective treatments for a particularly challenging clinical population: couples struggling with both relationship distress and individual mental health difficulties. Distinguished scientist-practitioners provide detailed accounts of their respective approaches, reviewing conceptual and empirical foundations as well as clinical procedures. Included are well-established treatments for couples in which one or both partners has anxiety, mood disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse, sexual dysfunction, or physical aggression. Also covered are emerging couple-based approaches to managing personality disorders, PTSD, difficulties related to aging and physical illness, and other problems. Following a standard format to facilitate comparison across treatments, each chapter is illustrated with detailed case material. Provided are powerful insights and tools for couple and family therapists, clinicians providing individual therapy, and students in any mental health discipline.
Download or read book Marital Therapy in Psychiatric Practice written by Linden F. Frelick and published by New York : Brunner/Mazel. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro surgio como resultado de una conferencia sobre terapia marital dentro de la practica psiquiatrica. Las distintas contribuciones atienden a distintos aspectos de la relacion de pareja.
Download or read book Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy written by Susan M. Johnson and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and children; the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships; and the ways attachment-oriented interventions can address individual problems as well as marital conflict and difficult family transitions. With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, the volume offers both general strategies and specific techniques for helping clients build stronger, more supportive relational bonds.
Download or read book Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy written by Gabor I. Keitner and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy presents a conceptual framework for engaging families of psychiatric patients. It outlines practical, evidence-based family therapy skills that make it easier for clinicians to effectively integrate families into the treatment process. Moreover, it reestablishes the role of the psychiatrist as the leader of the team of professionals providing mental health care to patients in need. The underlying assumption in this concise manual is that most psychiatric symptoms or conditions evolve in a social context, and families can be useful in identifying the history, precipitants, and likely future obstacles to the management of presenting problems. The book clarifies the clinical decision-making process for establishing family involvement in patient care in different clinical settings, and it outlines distinct steps in family assessment and treatment within a biopsychosocial organizing framework that can be applied to all families, regardless of the patient's presenting problems. The book's approach is based on a broad model of family functioning, which provides a multidimensional description of families and has validated instruments to assess family functioning from both internal and external perspectives. Unique features and benefits of the manual include: A focus on one consistent model of assessment and treatment that can be applied to a wide range of psychiatric conditions and clinical settings Numerous case examples, tables, and charts throughout the text to further highlight the material A summary of key concepts at the end of each chapter A companion DVD, keyed to discussion in the text, that demonstrates how to perform a family assessment and treatment All psychiatrists should be proficient in assessing the social and familial context in which a patient's psychiatric illness evolves. The Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy is a practical guide designed to facilitate a clinician's ability to evaluate and treat couples and families.
Download or read book Creating Relationship Wellness written by Stephanie Wijkstrom and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness for your marriage is a tool book to be used by couples who want to gain the skill of relationship wellness. Each chapter offers evidence-based, and therapist verified techniques to gain insight into yourself and your partners world. Mindfulness for your marriage offers skills-based interventions that draw upon the fields of mindfulness and behavioral psychology, both recognized as pathways to enrichment. Each segment of this text builds upon the previous in an effort to lead the reader toward a mastery of relationship wellness. Divorce, separation, or disconnection do not always need to be the solution, a new approach to your problems will empower your path to reconnection. Prepare to break down specific methods of mindfulness and apply them during each chapter’s exercises as you practice to enhance your relationship. Each segment ends with practical exercises to do together or independently. In this unique text, you are offered thoughtful meditations that make relationship improvement understandable and easy. The writer houses an intimate understanding of human emotions and connections that she intersects in a meaningful way. It is not necessary to wait to improve your love until it is ailing, but here and now, relationship enhancement is offered as a preventative strategy in the attainment of interconnected wellbeing.
Download or read book Couples Counseling written by Marina Iandoli Williams Lmhc and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A session by session guide book for mental health practitioners on how to conduct evidence-based couples counseling. The book guides the therapist step by step through twelve sessions, and covers everything from the very first client phone call all the way through termination.
Download or read book Couple Therapy for Alcoholism written by Phylis J. Wakefield and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-04-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research in the treatment of alcoholism has shown that the involvement of a spouse or partner improves outcome for the client. This hands-on guide presents a time-limited, cognitive-behavioral treatment in the context of couple therapy. The volume demonstrates how to engage the alcoholic's partner as an active participant in the treatment process. Using this state-of-the-art approach, the practitioner can respond to the needs of both the alcoholic and the partner, which may motivate the couple to remain in treatment and learn the skills they need to overcome the many struggles inherent in a relationship affected by alcoholism. Organized so that each chapter and the suggested interventions may stand alone or be integrated with a variety of therapeutic approaches, the book includes numerous illustrative case examples and a wealth of reproducible handouts in the form of exercises, charts, and sample dialogues. Note About Photocopy Rights: The publisher grants book purchasers permission to reproduce handouts and forms in this book for use with their clients.
Download or read book Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy written by David E. Scharff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy programs. This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the work. The international group of authors comes from the International Psychotherapy Institute based in Washington, DC, and the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) in London. The result is a richly international perspective that nonetheless has theoretical and clinical coherence because of the shared vision of the authors.
Download or read book Cognitive Behavioral Marital Therapy written by Donald H. Baucom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current volume by Baucom and Epstein demonstrates the product that can result when two individuals, both of whom are skilled therapists, creative theoreticians and experienced researchers, combine their efforts. No other two individuals have the depth of understanding and the breadth of knowledge needed to write a book of his magnitude on cognitive behavioral therapy of marital distress. As a result, the best of the scientist-practitioner is revealed in Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Therapy.
Download or read book Techniques for the Couple Therapist written by Gerald R. Weeks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques for the Couple Therapist features many of the most prominent psychotherapists today, presenting their most effective couple therapy interventions. This book provides clinicians with a user-friendly quick reference with an array of techniques that can be quickly read and immediately used in session. The book includes over 50 chapters by experts in the field on the fundamental principles and techniques for effective couple therapy. Many of the techniques focus on common couple therapy processes such as enactments, communication, and reframing. Others focus on specific presenting problems, such as trauma, sexual issues, infidelity, intimate partner violence, and high conflict. Students, beginning therapists, and seasoned clinicians will find this pragmatic resource invaluable in their work with couples.
Download or read book An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy written by Joseph L. Wetchler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this text introduces readers to the rich history and practice of Marriage and Family Therapy, with 32 professionals from across the US presenting their knowledge in their areas of expertise. This blend of approaches and styles gives this text a unique voice and makes it a comprehensive resource for graduate students taking their first course in Marriage and Family Therapy. The book is divided into three sections: Part 1 focuses on the components on which 21st century family therapy is based and summarizes the most recent changes made to not only therapeutic interventions, but to the very concept of “family.” Part 2 presents an overview of the 7 major theoretical models of the field: structural, strategic, Milan, social constructionist, experiential, transgenerational, and cognitive-behavioral family therapy. Each chapter in this section • Focuses on the founder of the theory, its theoretical tenants, and its key techniques • Shows how the model focuses on diversity • Presents the research that supports the approach Part 3 addresses specific treatment areas that are common to marriage and family therapists, such as sex therapy, pre-marital therapy, research, and ethics and legal issues. As an introduction to the field of Marriage and Family Therapy, this volume stands above the rest. Not only will readers gain an understanding of the rich history of the field and its techniques, but they will also see a complete picture of the context in which families are embedded, such as gender, culture, spirituality, and sexual orientation. This knowledge is the key to understanding what differentiates Marriage and Family Therapy from individual psychotherapy. Glossaries, case studies, tables, figures, and appendices appear generously throughout the text to present this information and give students a thorough overview to prepare them for their professional lives.
Download or read book Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy written by Frank M. Dattilio and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together some of the most creative and influential voices in the field, this book draws compelling connections between theory and practice, demonstrates the transformative potential of couple and family intervention, and helps readers maximize the effectiveness of their work in a range of settings. It is a vital resource for therapists of all orientations and also serves as a text in advanced undergraduate or graduate-level courses.
Download or read book What Is Psychotherapy written by The School of Life and published by School of Life. This book was released on 2018 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at a much misunderstood practice, offering a fresh viewpoint on how this science can be a universally effective route to our better selves.
Download or read book Enhanced Cognitive behavioral Therapy for Couples written by Norman Epstein and published by APA Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Retaining much of the traditional conceptual model and methods of cognitive-behavioral therapy, Epstein (family studies, U. of Maryland at College Park) and Baucom (clinical psychology, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) seek to enhance the therapy by integrating a developmental perspective on the interaction patterns of the couple and the influences of the couple's physical and interpersonal environment. They describe their model and present the theoretical and empirical foundations for clinical assessment and intervention strategies presented in the latter part of the book. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
