Schema therapy with couples: a practitioner's guide to healing relationships

"Schema Therapy for Couples represents the first practitioner guide to detail effective Schema Therapy techniques in couple and relationship therapy. Shows how the distinctive features of ST make it ideal for addressing the cognitive and emotion-focused problems typical in couple relationships Presents and integrates a series of innovative tools and interventions such as Schema Therapy with Needs versus Wants, Mode Cycle Clash Cards, limited re-parenting visualization, and chair work Authored by an international team of experts in couples therapy and Schema Therapy "--

"Represents the first practitioner guide to detail effective Schema Therapy techniques in couple and relationship therapy"--

Title page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; About the Authors; Preface; From all of us; From Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco, PhD; From Eckhard Roediger, MD; From Bruce A. Stevens, PhD; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; About the Companion Website; 1 What Schema Therapy Offers; 1.1 What is Hidden, What is Seen; 1.2 Listening to the Evidence; 1.3 Beyond Just Cognitive Therapy; 1.4 Jeff Young and the Development of Schema Therapy; 1.5 The Schema Model; 1.6 Introducing the Mode Model; 1.7 The Challenge of Working with Couples.

1.8 Limited Professional Literature1.9 Brief Outline of the Stages of Schema Therapy for Couples; Summary; 2 The Initial Contract and First Interview; 2.1 The Initial Interview; 2.2 Issues that Present; 2.3 Expectations; 2.4 "Contracting" for Therapy; 2.5 Safety First; 2.6 Additional Concerns; 2.7 Beginning with a Crisis Intervention; 2.8 Ending the First Session; 2.9 Starting with One Partner First; 2.10 How Many Therapists?; 2.11 With the Individual or Couple?; Summary; 3 Relationship Assessment; 3.1 A Questionnaire; 3.2 The Genogram; 3.3 Why do a Genogram?

3.4 Autobiography of Relationships3.5 Schema Identification; 3…