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Hope, Forgiveness, and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy
 
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3 for Preparing Couples to Reconcile?Savor Good Forgiveness


CHAPTER 23 MAKING DECISIONS AND DISCUSSING HURTS: DISCERN WHAT CAN AND CAN?T BE REDEEMED


Figure 23-1: Prepare for FREE


Intervention 23-1: Consider Memory of Past Conflicts with an Analogy


Intervention 23-2: It?s Not Only What I Did, But What My Partner Perceived I Did


Intervention 23-3: Psychoeducation about Processing Past Offenses


Intervention 23-4: Dan Wile?s (1988, 2008) Empathic Responding


Intervention 23-5: Preparing for Forgiveness and Reconciliation with Empathy


Intervention 23-6: Preparing for Forgiveness and Reconciliation with Emotional Softening


Intervention 23-7: Preparing for Forgiveness and Reconciliation through Regulating Emotions


Intervention 23-8: Address Resistance, Fuzzy Definitions, and Fears of Forgiveness


Intervention 23-9: Write Letters of Apology as Homework


Intervention 23-10: Discuss Potential Responses to Being Asked to Forgive the Wrongdoer


Intervention 23-11: CONFESS Acronym


CHAPTER 24 REPAIRING DAMAGE TO THE RELATIONSHIP: FIX WHAT CAN BE FIXED


Intervention 24-1: Scaling the Injustice Gap


Intervention 24-2: Responding to Criticism Non-Defensively (In Session)


Intervention 24-3: Principles to Address Unresolvable Problems


CHAPTER 25 REBUILDING DEVOTION WITH FREE: CREATE NEW STRUCTURES TO REPLACE MISSING ONES


Intervention 25-1: For Marriage War-Survivors, Read about Coventry and Dresden


Intervention 25-2: Increase Devotion through Gratitude Interventions


Intervention 25-3: Motivate Couples to Use Regular Checks on Functioning


Intervention 25-4: Discuss Annual Relationship Check-Up Questions


Intervention 25-5: Use the CARE Measure to Have Couples Self-Evaluate the Relationship


 


PART 6          REFORGING TRUST


CHAPTER 26 REFORGING TRUST: LET COUPLES KNOW THAT IT TAKES LONGER THAN THEY THINK IT WILL


Figure 26-1: Trust


Intervention 26-1: Illuminate the Processes of Trust-Busting and Trust-Building


Intervention 26-2: Use Slow-Building Trust to Deal with Deep Hurts


Intervention 26-3: ATTUNE, An Acronym for Handling a Betrayal


Intervention 26-4: It?s Happening Again


Intervention 26-5: Partner Exercise in Building Trust


Intervention 26-6: The Trust Bank


CHAPTER 27 PREPARING FOR FUTURE RUPTURES: ALERT PARTNERS TO INEVITABLE FUTURE RUPTURES


Intervention 27-1: Anticipate Ruptures by Assessing Change throughout Treatment


Intervention 27-2: Anticipate Ruptures by Staying Calm in the Face of Resistances and Roadblocks


Intervention 27-3: Anticipate Ruptures When Working with Partners with a Trauma History


Intervention 27-4: Anticipate Ruptures by Monitoring the Therapist?s Own Negative Reactions


CHAPTER 28 SOLIDIFYING GAINS AT TERMINATION: PROMOTE REFLECTIVE FUTURE PLANNING IN LIGHT OF REVIEW OF THERAPY


Figure 28-1: Figure in Termination Report Reporting the Results of Relationship Closeness Before Therapy (darker pillars) and After Therapy (lighter pillars)


Intervention 28-1: Three Questions at Termination


Intervention 28-2: An Example of a Final Termination Report


Intervention 28-3: Joshua Memorial or Graduation Ceremony


Intervention 28-4: Post-Therapy Assessment


 


CHAPTER 29 REACHING A PRODUCTIVE CONCLUSION: HEED THESE TAKE-HOME MESSAGES

Long description:
1 for Preparing Couples to Forgive & Reconcile?Consider Wartime


Intervention 22-2: Idea

2 for Preparing Couples to Reconcile?Why Forgive & Reconcile?


Intervention 22-3: Idea

Table of Contents:

CHAPTER 1   ADMITTING TO THE FRAGILITY OF COUPLE THERAPY: HOLD ONTO HOPE


 


PART 1          FRAMING INTERVENTIONS


CHAPTER 2   INTRODUCING THE THEORY: USE FIVE STEPS IN OPERATION HOPE    


Figure 2-1: Operation Hope: The Grand Strategy for the Hope-Focused Couple Approach.


Intervention 2-1: Ten Techniques of the HFCA


CHAPTER 3   PROMOTING HOPE: UNCOVER DIFFERENT KINDS OF HOPE        


CHAPTER 4   EMPLOY STRATEGIES FOR LOVE: HELP COUPLES DO THE WORK AND KEEP THE FAITH


Intervention 4-1: Education about Couple Therapy  


Intervention 4-2: Get This Across?In Couple Therapy, Work Is Essential 


Intervention 4-3: You Just Have to Do a Week of Work      


Intervention 4-4: Great Homework Interventions     


Intervention 4-5: Reflective Processing Worksheet  


Intervention 4-6: Love that Values the Partner in Action     


CHAPTER 5   USING THE THERAPY TECHNIQUES: MAKE CHANGE SENSIBLE 


Intervention 5-1: How to Do Sensible Scaling with a Couple          


CHAPTER 6   STRENGTHING THE EMOTIONAL BOND: FOCUS ON WHAT REALLY MAKES COUPLES SATISFIED AND STABLE      


Figure 6-1: Practical Recipe of Actions to Build Intimacy


Intervention 6-1: CLEAVE to Bond 


Intervention 6-2: Tell Me a Secret?Share Your Dreams     


Intervention 6-3: Attend to the Emotional Cues


CHAPTER 7   APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF COUPLE THERAPY: FIND THE ESSENCE OF HELPING COUPLES CHANGE


 


PART 2          INTERACTING HOPEFULLY


CHAPTER 8   BUILDING HOPE WITH HOPE: HANDLING OUR PROBLEMS EFFECTIVELY


Intervention 8-1: The Alligator Intervention (Or How to Respond When Your Partner Snaps)


CHAPTER 9   UNDERSTANDING THE COUPLE?S PROBLEMS AND GOALS: USE ASSESSMENT EFFICIENTLY


Figure 9-1: The Couple Improvement Plan


Table 9-1: Questionnaires and Scales for Clinical Assessment of Couples


Intervention 9-1: Educate Couples about Preferences


Intervention 9-2: Pre-Meeting Assessment Questionnaires


Intervention 9-3: The Dyadic Interview 10 Questions


Intervention 9-4: Assigning Homework and the Couple Improvement Plan Worksheet


Intervention 9-5: Detect Red Flags


CHAPTER 10 PROVIDING FEEDBACK TO THE COUPLE: ENGAGE COUPLES IN PLANNING THEIR TREATMENT


Figure 10-1: Graphic Display of Carl and Sarah?s Ratings of Elements of Their Relationship


Intervention 10-1: The Assessment Report


Intervention 10-2: Feedback Report Example


Intervention 10-3: Example Treatment Plan for Couple Therapy


CHAPTER 11 SETTING UP ROUTINE OUTCOME MONITORING: PUT ASSESSMENT TO WORK


Figure 11-1: H-ROM Questionnaire


Figure 11-2: Display of ROM Results for Each Partner


Intervention 11-1: Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) Assessment


CHAPTER 12 USING COUPLE THERAPY METHODS FOR HOPE: INSTILL HOPE FOR THE HOLY, HURTING, AND HEALTHY


Figure 12-1: Pain-Defense-Offense Pattern (adapted from Sells & Yarhouse, 2011)


Intervention 12-1: The Video Review


Intervention 12-2: Stopping Negative Reciprocity


CHAPTER 13 HELPING RESOLVE CONFLICTS: FIND MUTUAL INTERESTS BENEATH SURFACE FIGHTS


Figure 13-1: Couple Conflict: Process and Intervention


Figure 13-2: The LOVE Acronym


Intervention 13-1: LOVE?Three Interventions in One


Intervention 13-2: Five-Minute Date


Intervention 13-3: Simple Listen and Repeat, Warmly


Intervention 13-4: Time Out


Intervention 13-5: Expressing Valuing Love


Intervention 13-6: Experiencing and Expressing Gratitude


Intervention 13-7: Doubt Your Doubt


Intervention 13-8: Diffusing a Power Struggle by Setting up a Win-Win and Inviting Partners to Honor Each Other?s Valued Choices


Intervention 13-9: Values Card Sort


Intervention 13-10: Process the Conflict


Intervention 13-11: Begin a Hard Discussion with a Soft Start-Up


Intervention 13-12: Slimy Pit Demonstration


CHAPTER 14 PROMOTING BETTER COMMUNICATION: FACILITATE WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW


Figure 14-1: Practice Affirming and Active Responding Instead of Discounting and Disengaging


Intervention 14-1: Love Bank


Intervention 14-2: Love Bank Spin-Offs


Intervention 14-3: Making Affirming Active Responses Using the Speaker-Listener Technique


Intervention 14-4: Leveling and Editing


Intervention 14-5: Love Busters


Intervention 14-6: TANGO and TANGO-E


Intervention 14-7: A Coke and a Smile


 


PART 3          BONDING


CHAPTER 15 REVEALING THE SECRET TO A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP: HELP BUILD A MORE INTIMATE EMOTIONAL BOND


Figure 15-1: Sternberg?s Eight Types of Love Derived from Being High or Low in Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment


Figure 15-2: Intimacy Thermometers (Ripley & Worthington, 2014)


Intervention 15-1: Plot the Couple?s Sternberg Love-Triangle History


Intervention 15-2: Conceptualization of Three Types of Power


Intervention 15-3: Assess and Process the Intimacy Thermometers


Intervention 15-4: Graphing Closeness throughout the Relationship


Intervention 15-5: Five Love Languages to Increase Emotional Bonds


Intervention 15-6: A Sculpting Intervention to Deepen Intimacy over Time


Intervention 15-7: Make Dreams and Hopes Solid


CHAPTER 16 ENCOURAGING DEEP EMOTIONAL SHARING: HELP PARTNERS SHARE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS


Intervention 16-1: Romantic Dates and Special Times to Enhance Emotional Intimacy


Intervention 16-2: Three Ways to Enhance Sexual Intimacy


Intervention 16-3: Intellectual and Recreational Intimacy


Intervention 16-4: Prompt Spiritual and Romantic Reflection


Intervention 16-5: Assessing Spirituality with Couples


Intervention 16-6: Couple Prayer


Intervention 16-7: Process Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance


CHAPTER 17 BALANCING INTIMACY AND CLOSENESS WITH CO-ACTION AND ALONE-TIME: FIND THE RIGHT MIX FOR EACH COUPLE


Figure 17-1: The Distancer-Pursuer Couple Play-List. Topics that Trigger the Pattern of Requesting Interaction Followed by Withdrawal Followed by Elevated Intensity of Requests, etc.


Intervention 17-1: Bonding Day Activity


Intervention 17-2: A Used-Friendly Manual to Love Me


Intervention 17-3: Distancer-Pursuer Playlist


Intervention 17-4: Influencing Well and Accepting Influence


Intervention 17-5: Healthy Paths to Intimacy and Independence


CHAPTER 18 DISCERRNING ATTACHMENT STYLES AND EMOTIONAL BONDS: FIND EFFECTS OF EARLY RELATIONSHIPS AND OF ADULT ONES


Intervention 18-1: Understand Attachment by Creating Genograms Focused on Attachment Styles


Intervention 18-2: Attachment Styles in Their Close Relationships


Intervention 18-3: Two Attachment Styles, One Emotional Bod


Intervention 18-4: Predict Backsliding to Avoid It


Intervention 18-5: Address Defenses against Vulnerability


Intervention 18-6: Solidify Intimacy by Renewing Vows


Intervention 18-7: Solidify Intimacy by Creating a Sojourning Narrative


 


PART 4          FORGIVING


CHAPTER 19 DEALING WITH HURTS AND INJUSTICES: REDUCE THE INJUSTICE GAP TO MAKE FORGIVENESS EASIER


Figure 19-1: Radical Acceptance


Intervention 19-1: See with Magic Eyes Fable


Intervention 19-2: Questions to Ponder as You Begin to Address Past Hurts with the Couple


Intervention 19-3: Stopping Rumination


Intervention 19-4: Tolerate Offensive Behavior without Blowing Up


Intervention 19-5: Forbear Instead of Seeking Revenge (Or Even Contemplating It)


Intervention 19-6: Offer Restitution


Intervention 19-7: Grace Ain?t Just for Supper


Intervention 19-8: Radical Acceptance


Intervention 19-9: Transform Emotion with Emotion


CHAPTER 20 USING AN EFFECTIVE FORGIVENESS INTERVENTION: TEACH FIVE STEPS TO REACH FORGIVENESS


Intervention 20-1: Issues to Consider as You Start a REACH Forgiveness Group Program for Your Practice


Intervention 20-2: Point-by-Point Summary of the REACH Forgiveness Protocol


Intervention 20-3: Research Supporting REACH Forgiveness Treatment


CHAPTER 21 USING REACH FORGIVENESS IN SESSION: WALK COUPLES THROUGH IT


Figure 21-1: Four Interventions (21-1, 21-2, 21-3, and 21-4) to Promote Movement toward Reconciliation


Intervention 21-1: Choose Four Offenses to Work on


Intervention 21-2: Introduce the REACH Forgiveness Model


Intervention 21-3: Practice Confession and Apology


Intervention 21-4: Apply REACH


Intervention 21-5: Work through a Do-It-Yourself Workbook on REACH Forgiveness


Intervention 21-6: Have Partners Reflect on Their Learning


Intervention 21-7: Six Steps to Decisional Plus Emotional Self-Forgiveness


Intervention 21-8: An Intervention to Forgive Oneself Due to Non-Moral Self-Condemnation


Intervention 21-9: Working with One Partner on Curbing Their Excessive Self-Condemnation


 


 


PART 5          RECONCILING AND REBUILDING


CHAPTER 22 TEACHING FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION: GUIDE PARTNERS THROUGH FOUR STEPS TO SET PARTNERS FREE


Figure 22-1: Four Steps to Forgiveness and Reconciliation through Experiencing Empathy (FREE)


Intervention 22-1: Idea