Doing Couple Therapy, Second Edition: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners

Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert Taibbi presents effective strategies for rapidly identifying a couple's core issues and conducting each stage of therapy, from the first sessions to termination. Rich with sensitive case material, the book features end-of-chapter exercises that help readers identify and develop their own strengths as practitioners. Appendices include reproducible client handouts that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
 
New to This Edition
*Three chapters offering detailed treatment maps for common couple problems, with new case examples.
*Chapter on the middle stages of treatment.
*Increased attention to the all-important opening sessions.
*Sharper focus on the three major obstacles to couple success: poor communication, emotional wounds, and differing visions.
*Reproducible client handouts explaining key techniques.

See also the author's Doing Family Therapy, Third Edition: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice.

• Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fifth Edition
• Doing Family Therapy, Third Edition: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice
• If Only I Had Known: Avoiding Common Mistakes In Couples Therapy
• Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy: A Practical Approach to Theory and Clinical Case Documentation
• Couples in Treatment
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
• Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Systemic and Cognitive Perspectives (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)
• Groups: Process and Practice
• Premarital & Remarital Counseling: the Professional's Handbook
• A Clinician's Guide to Systemic Sex Therapy