Brief Therapy for Couples Helping Partners

This book provides a complete guide to self-regulatory couple therapy (SRCT), an innovative clinical approach that maximizes the couple's capacity for self-directed change. Presented is a flexible framework for treating couples effectively in as few as one or two--and as many as 25--sessions of highly focused work. Featuring step-by-step intervention guidelines and helpful clinical examples, the book demonstrates how to identify those couples for whom very brief therapy is possible, how to focus in quickly on the processes associated with relationship distress, and how to integrate additional therapeutic components for clients needing longer-term help.

W. Kim Halford, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia.

The Nature and Significance of Relationship Problems	p. 1
The Significance of Relationship Problems	p. 2
The Development of Relationship Problems	p. 7
Processes That Maintain Relationship Problems	p. 15
A Model of Couple Relationships	p. 23
Approaches to Couple Therapy and Their Effectiveness	p. 26
Defining Success in Couple Therapy	p. 27
Empirically Supported Approaches to Couple Therapy	p. 29
Effectiveness of Couple Therapy	p. 38
Conclusions	p. 40
Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy	p. 42
Self-Regulation and Couple Therapy	p. 42
Structure of Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy	p. 48
The Process of Self-Regulatory Couple Therapy: Making It Succeed	p. 53
Completion of Couple Therapy	p. 65
Assessment, Part I: Overview and Initial Session	p. 67
Overview of Assessment	p. 68
The Initial Assessment Session	p. 75
Structuring Successful Conjoint Interviews	p. 91
When Assessment Reveals Relationship Crises	p. 96
Assessment, Part II: Second and Any Subsequent Sessions	p. 107
Structure and Content of Second and Any Subsequent Sessions	p. 107
Interpreting Core Assessment Tasks	p. 112
Supplementary Assessment Tasks	p. 127
How to Manage Common Challenges in Couple Presentations	p. 138
Concluding Assessment	p. 143
Feedback and Negotiation	p. 145
Overview of Feedback and Negotiation	p. 146
Negotiating Relationship Goals and Therapy Structure	p. 157
Managing Common Challenges in Feedback and Negotiation	p. 164
Brief Self-Change	p. 170
Implementing and Evaluating Self-Change	p. 171
Promoting Generalization and Maintenance of Change	p. 182
Relationship Psychoeducation	p. 191
Process of Relationship Psychoeducation	p. 193
Common Themes in Distressed Relationships	p. 206
Influences on Themes of Couple Adaptive Processes	p. 209
Common Variations in Couple Relationships	p. 220
Linking Relationship Psychoeducation to the Next Steps in Therapy	p. 225
Therapist-Guided Change	p. 225
Increasing Positivity in Day-to-Day Interactions	p. 226
Promoting Better Communication	p. 232
Conflict Management	p. 248
Changing Negative Thoughts and Feelings	p. 255
After Therapist-Guided Change	p. 260
References	p. 263
Index	p. 281
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