Treating marital stress : support-based approaches
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Treating marital stress : support-based approaches
（Haworth marriage and the family）
Haworth Clinical Practice Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Help your marital therapy clients become more supportive of their partners!
As a therapist, you see many unhappy couples who long for the loving support that used to be the touchstone of their relationship. Treating Marital Stress: Support-Based Approaches helps you restore that support, beginning with detailed descriptions of the five major patterns of marital distress and continuing with a comprehensive training manual that includes figures, case studies, and samples of possible dialogues between clients and therapists. Step-by-step discussion of the first five sessions with a hypothetical couple provide you with the tools you'll need to help your clients learn to work together as a team, manage their anger, and communicate effectively with each other.
Treating Marital Stress shows you the best ways to:
work with a reluctant spouse
use empathic probing to make a connection with each client
design homework assignments so spouses can work on individual improvements
point out problematic behaviors within sessions through 'here and now' interventions
reframe conflicts to reduce defensiveness
help clients accept responsibility for themselves and avoid placing blame
Other chapters discuss how you can assign behavioral tasks, get the couple to focus on their objectives, and predict and move beyond emotional obstacles to healing. This helpful volume also explores the outcome data from a study on support-focused marital theory conducted in a university setting.
Author Robert Rugel, PhD writes: A spouse who is on the receiving end of support will feel loved and valued by the partner. That spouse will also know that the partner can be counted on to be there when help is needed. As a result, security and trust develop in the relationship. You can be there to help spouses look at each other differently and learn to trust and support each other once more.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Importance of Support
Chapter 1. The Role of Support in Marriage
The Overwhelmed Spouse of Contemporary Marriage
The Literature on Social Support
The Five Patterns of Marital Distress
Specific Support-Focused Marital Therapy Interventions
The Treatment Manual
Chapter 2. Session One: Using Empathy and Probes to Understand the Perspective of Each Partner
The Therapist's Goals
What Are Your Concerns? Working Empathically with One Spouse and Then the Other
What Do You Want to Achieve? Establishing a Preliminary Therapeutic Alliance with Regard to Goals
Describing How You Will Work Together: Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance with Regard to Tasks
Closing the First Session by Handling Administrative Matters
Chapter 3. Session Two: Processing Interactions and Presenting Patterns
The Therapist's Goals
Processing Conflicts and Interactions
Processing Mary and Pete's Conflict
Presenting Mary and Pete's Pattern
The Therapist As Relationship Instructor
Preparing the Couple for Individual Sessions
Chapter 4. Sessions Three, Four, and Five: Deepening the Therapist's Understanding Through Individual Sessions and Reorientation
The Therapist's Goals
Increasing the Emotional Connection
Obtaining the Marital History
Obtaining the Developmental History
Session Five: Reorienting the Couple After the Individual Sessions
Chapter 5. Working to Increase Support in Subsequent Sessions
Assigning Tasks and Helping Spouses Get What They Want
Understanding and Reframing the Inner Emotional Obstacles to Carrying Out Assignments
Reframing the Obstacles to Providing Support
Following Up on Previous Homework Assignments
Identifying the Dismissive Attitude Pattern
Identifying the Unilateral Attempt to Prevail Pattern: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
Using Support Lists to Structure the Therapy Around the Issue of Support
Keeping the Support Issue on the Table and Monitoring Progress
Chapter 6. Dealing with Triangulation Patterns in Subsequent Sessions
The Parenting Triangle
Working As a Team and Problem Solving
The Work or Hobby Triangle
Chapter 7. Dealing with Anger Management, Derogation, and Negative Escalation in Subsequent Sessions
Calming the Angry System: The Therapist As Gatekeeper
Teaching the Couple to Avoid Negative Escalation
Framing the Issue As Anger Management
Framing Inappropriate Anger Management As a Function of Marital Deterioration
Dealing with the Emotional Obstacles to Anger Management and the Inhibition of Criticism
Chapter 8. Dealing with Communication Avoidance in Subsequent Sessions
What Is Direct Communication?
Indirect Communication and Conflict Avoidance
Describing the Communication Avoidance Pattern
Dealing with Obstacles to Direct Communication
Chapter 9. Encouraging Companionship, Affection, and Sexual Intimacy in Subsequent Sessions
Using the Here and Now to Enact Affectionate Behavior
Encouraging Companionship
Encouraging Nonsexual Touching and Sexual Intimacy
Chapter 10. Accepting Partner Differences and Limitations
Differences As an Irritant
Learning to Accept Differences and Limitations
Accepting Gender Differences
A Case History
Chapter 11. The Marriage of Sam and Diane
Introduction
Sessions One Through Eighteen
Subsequent Sessions
The Outcome Research
Chapter 12. Assessing the Effectiveness of Support-Focused Marital Therapy
Study One: The Support-Focused Marital Therapy Waitlist-Control Comparison
Study Two: Correlations Among Support, Anger, Marital Satisfaction, and Change in Marital Satisfaction
Afterword
References
Index
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