{"product_id":"short-term-couple-therapy-9781572308336","title":"Short-Term Couple Therapy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique guide brings together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate the nuts and bolts of their brief work with couples. The time- and cost-effective models discussed are explicitly short-term--not long-term on fast forward--and detailed case excerpts and clinical examples highlight how each form of therapy is actually conducted. Noted contributors include Susan Johnson, Philip Guerin, Michael Nichols and Salvador Minuchin, Simon Budman, Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson, James Keim, and many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'In this comprehensive edited volume, each author spells out treatment planning guidelines, phases of the therapy process, and specific interventions, along with overarching theory ... Students find the text both immediately applicable to cases and theoretically sound. Instructors are helped not just to teach, but also to compare and contrast models succinctly. This book demonstrates the field's much-needed movement toward recognizing couple therapy as a discipline in its own right.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBrent Bradley, PhD, Graduate Counseling Department, Indiana Wesleyan University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Anyone who has worked with couples who are in enough pain to go to a therapist knows how challenging this work can be. Doing couples work within the reality of today's marketplace is even more challenging. [This book] succeeds in making the challenge seem less daunting ... I highly recommend this book for experienced clinicians who work with couples regardless of whether they have managed care clients ... I consider it a valuable addition to my library.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eJournal of Family Psychotherapy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Donovan's book is a treasure trove of maps, guides, and directions for finding our way through the tricky terrain of couples treatment using brief therapy models ... [The book] repeatedly demonstrates that even within the complex context of brief couple therapy, a powerful therapeutic relationship based on a profound sense of empathy can allow a wide array of approaches to be quite successful.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eJournal of Systemic Therapies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Short-Term Couple Therapy and the Principles of Brief Treatment, Donovan\u003cbr\u003e I. Psychodynamic Methods\u003cbr\u003e 2. Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Straight to the Heart, Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 3. Short-Term Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Tale of Four Fights, Donovan\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Control Mastery Approach to Short-Term Couple Therapy, Vogel \u003cbr\u003eII. The Systemic Approach\u003cbr\u003e 5. Brief Marital Therapy: The Story of the Triangles, Guerin, Fay, Fogarty, and Kautto\u003cbr\u003e 6. Short-Term Structural Family Therapy with Couples, Nichols and Minuchin\u003cbr\u003e 7. Psychoanalytically Informed Short-Term Couple Therapy, Cohen\u003cbr\u003e 8. Time-Effective Couple Therapy, Budman\u003cbr\u003eIII. Collaborative Models\u003cbr\u003e 9. Collaborative Couple Therapy, Wile\u003cbr\u003e10. Integrative Couple Therapy: The Dyadic Relationship of Acceptance and Change, Lawrence, Eldridge, Christensen, and Jacobson\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Postmodern Schools\u003cbr\u003e11. Brief Strategic Marital Therapy, Keim\u003cbr\u003e12. Narrative Solutions in Brief Couple Therapy, Eron and Lund\u003cbr\u003e13. A Time-Effective, Solution-Focused Approach to Couple Therapy, Friedman and Lipchik\u003cbr\u003e14. Couples, Culture, and Discourse: A Narrative Approach, Neal, Zimmerman, and Dickerson\u003cbr\u003e15. Short-Term Couple Therapy: The Present and the Future, Donovan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guilford Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50083781902679,"sku":"9781572308336","price":40.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781572308336.jpg?v=1740725439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/short-term-couple-therapy-9781572308336","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}