Engaging Men in Couples Therapy

2012-03-15

Author: David Shepard

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135163952

Category: Psychology

Page: 348

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This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners associated with current therapeutic models, including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Couple Therapy, and more. Using in-depth case examples, they demonstrate how their approaches can be adapted to be "male-sensitive" and respond to the ambivalence so many men experience about couples work. Special topics are also addressed, including infidelity, cultural diversity, working with veterans, and fathering issues. This book will enrich therapists’ work with couples, making treatment a welcoming experience for both partners and the treatment process more gratifying for the therapist.

Engaging Men in Couples Therapy

2012-03-15

Author: David Shepard

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135163969

Category: Psychology

Page: 349

View: 110

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This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners associated with current therapeutic models, including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Couple Therapy, and more. Using in-depth case examples, they demonstrate how their approaches can be adapted to be "male-sensitive" and respond to the ambivalence so many men experience about couples work. Special topics are also addressed, including infidelity, cultural diversity, working with veterans, and fathering issues. This book will enrich therapists’ work with couples, making treatment a welcoming experience for both partners and the treatment process more gratifying for the therapist.

A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men

2014-12-01

Author: Matt Englar-Carlson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781119026501

Category: Psychology

Page: 408

View: 108

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This book examines a variety of critical issues pertaining to the psychology of men and masculinity and presents successful, evidence-based strategies for treatment. Part 1 focuses on treating men in couples counseling, group work, and career counseling, as well as counseling men about their health. Part 2 explores the intersections of identity for sexual minority men, older men, and fathers, and discusses spiritual work with men in life transitions. Part 3 addresses the concerns of men in the military, prevention of sexual violence, and treating men with addictions and trauma-related issues. Part 4 provides the specific clinical frames of female counselors using relational–cultural theory with men, and examines using motivational and masculine-sensitive therapy with men. Examples and vignettes throughout the text provide clinical relevance, and reflective questions in each chapter encourage readers to explore their own biases and ideas about working with men. *Requests for digital versions from the ACA can be found on wiley.com. *To request print copies, please visit the ACA website here. *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]

Couple Therapy

2018-10-09

Author: Len Sperry

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351051576

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 406

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This new edition of Couples Therapy tackles four challenges currently facing the field: (1) accountability and the increasing demands for demonstrating effectiveness as a condition for reimbursement, (2) the need for practitioners to reconfigure their practice patterns in an ever-involving health-care system, (3) training mental health practitioners who have not completed marital and family therapy (MFT) programs, and (4) integrating new couples approaches and interventions into everyday clinical practice. The book offers a focused vision and successful strategies for working effectively with couples, both today and tomorrow. It incorporates the best insights from the neurosciences as well as new couples theories, research, and evidence-based interventions, introducing approaches including psychoanalytic, systemic, cognitive behavioral, Adlerian, constructivist, third wave, integrative, and mindfulness-based. Chapters also present practical applications and professional considerations, with a comprehensive look at how to work with diverse issues in couples therapy, such as substance abuse, domestic violence, sexual dysfunction, infidelity, aging, and much more. This third edition of Couples Therapy is an essential resource for students as well as mental health practitioners, social workers, and family counselors who are keen to better meet the needs of couples and the demands of the changing healthcare landscape.

Couples Therapy in Managed Care

2014-02-04

Author: Barbara Jo Brothers

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317708889

Category: Psychology

Page: 146

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Couples Therapy in Managed Care: Facing the Crisis provides social workers, psychologists, and counselors with an overview of the negative effects of the managed care industry on the quality of mental health care. Within this book, you will discover the paradoxes that occur with the mixing of business principals and service principles and find valuable suggestions on how you can creatively cope within the managed care context. With Couples Therapy in Managed Care, you will learn how you can remain true to your own integrity and offer quality services within the current context of today's health care system. Current and comprehensive, Couples Therapy in Managed Care will assist you in easing the dilemma of patients who are suffering from serious physical illness or emotional pain and have little choice or time to search for a needed doctor or service. Couples Therapy in Managed Care offers you informative tips and suggestions on how you can help your clients within the constraints of the managed care system, such as: exploring ways to hold true to your personal values and the integrity of your personal approach to therapy while developing creative strategies to survive within managed care understanding the need to write a treatment plan using high professional standards and a solid theoretical analysis of the proposed therapy to give you a better chance of getting the managed care case manager to authorize your treatments realizing that maintaining a good working relationship with individual case managers will help you get more of your proposed treatments authorized, although their high rate of turnover makes this a daunting task discovering that a sometimes a solution to your problem may be as simple as a phone call to a case manager to negotiate an exception to a standard procedure Couples Therapy in Managed Care offers you effective suggestions to help you overcome the limitations you may encounter while trying to practice within a managed care setting. Innovative and informative, this book will help you provide your patients with the best possible therapy while offering you ways to decrease the stress that managed care systems can cause you and your clients.

Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy

2015-02-02

Author: Carmen Knudson-Martin

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319133980

Category: Psychology

Page: 153

View: 616

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This path-breaking volume introduces Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy for clinical work with troubled couples. Practice-focused and engaging, it integrates real-world knowledge of the intersections of gender, culture, power, and identity in relationships with empirical findings on the neurobiology of attraction. Case examples detail the process of therapists in the moment as they develop both their clinical skills and their understanding of the social contexts fueling couples' difficulties. Applications of the method, which can be used with same-sex couples as well as heterosexual ones, are shown in addressing infidelity, tapping into partners' spirituality, and modeling and encouraging mutual respect and support. Among the topics covered: Undoing gendered power in heterosexual couple relationships. Interpersonal neurobiology, couples, and the societal context. How gender discourses hijack couple therapy—and how it can be avoided. How SERT therapists develop interventions that address the larger context. Building a circle of care in same-sex couple relationships. Couple therapy with adult survivors of child abuse: gender, power, and trust. Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy opens out practical new possibilities for marriage and family therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and counselors seeking ideas for more meaningful couples work.

Handbook of Clinical Issues in Couple Therapy

2011-03

Author: Joseph L. Wetchler

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781136837425

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 373

View: 275

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Now updated in its second edition, Handbook of Clinical Issues in Couple Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of emerging issues that impact couple therapy. Unlike other guides that concentrate more on theoretical approaches, this invaluable resource contains the latest research and perspectives that every clinician needs when dealing with the challenging issues often found in practice. Carefully referenced, it explores a range of issues that include intimate partner violence, posttraumatic stress disorder and its effect on couple relationships, divorce therapy, remarriage and cohabitation issues, cultural issues, and couple therapist training. This insightful edited volume is suitable for a wide spectrum of readers, including couple and family therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, pastoral counselors, educators, and graduate students.

Couple Therapy

1991

Author: Douglas Hooper

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015021885770

Category: Medical

Page: 323

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This handbook reviews therapy and counselling with couples, whether they be married, co-habiting, heterosexual, lesbian or gay. It explores how the problems of closely involved couples are assessed and tackled in different circumstances and in different ways. It places couples therapy in its theoretical and institutional contexts, analyzes immediate therapeutic concerns, and examines the wider roles of agencies, education, research and training.

Helping Men Change

1993-04-13

Author: Beth M. Erickson

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

ISBN: UOM:39076001339683

Category: Psychology

Page: 469

View: 190

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Helping Men Change addresses, from a therapist's perspective, some of the primary concerns women have about working with male clients. It discusses the therapeutic skills and the personal competencies that are essential when women work with men, and focuses on empowering female therapists to work as effectively and confidently with men as they do with women. It provides guidelines for improving clinical decision making when planning treatment and offers specific examples of sessions designed to help male clients deal with particularly difficult issues, such as becoming more effective participants in intimate relationships. An excellent resource for family, individual, or group therapists, Helping Men Change will be of interest to psychologists, pastoral counselors, clinical social workers, and psychiatrists who provide psychotherapy, whatever the particular treatment modality with which they work. Students of clinical and counseling psychology, gender studies, and human services will also find this an important resource.

The Gender Dance in Couples Therapy

1998

Author: Mark Worden

Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company

ISBN: UOM:39015040577291

Category: Psychology

Page: 244

View: 794

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With a focus on gender-based research, Worden and Worden's new book offers a truly unique look at the perception of gender and the impact of gender biases and predispositions on the couple and the client-therapist relationship. While The Gender Dance in Couples Therapy offers essential theoretical coverage, the main emphasis is on application. The book's in-depth case study takes you through specific phases of couples therapy, from the first interview through termination - always through the "lens" of gender. You'll find the book's concrete guidelines for assessment and intervention, particularly regarding common impasses in the treatment process, to be invaluable in your examination of this growing and ever-changing field.

A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men

2014-12-01

Author: Matt Englar-Carlson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781119026372

Category: Psychology

Page: 408

View: 593

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This book examines a variety of critical issues pertaining to the psychology of men and masculinity and presents successful, evidence-based strategies for treatment. Part 1 focuses on treating men in couples counseling, group work, and career counseling, as well as counseling men about their health. Part 2 explores the intersections of identity for sexual minority men, older men, and fathers, and discusses spiritual work with men in life transitions. Part 3 addresses the concerns of men in the military, prevention of sexual violence, and treating men with addictions and trauma-related issues. Part 4 provides the specific clinical frames of female counselors using relational–cultural theory with men, and examines using motivational and masculine-sensitive therapy with men. Examples and vignettes throughout the text provide clinical relevance, and reflective questions in each chapter encourage readers to explore their own biases and ideas about working with men. *Requests for digital versions from the ACA can be found on wiley.com. *To request print copies, please visit the ACA website here. *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]

Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy

2015-02-27

Author: Carmen Knudson-Martin

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 3319133977

Category: Psychology

Page: 153

View: 353

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This path-breaking volume introduces Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy for clinical work with troubled couples. Practice-focused and engaging, it integrates real-world knowledge of the intersections of gender, culture, power, and identity in relationships with empirical findings on the neurobiology of attraction. Case examples detail the process of therapists in the moment as they develop both their clinical skills and their understanding of the social contexts fueling couples' difficulties. Applications of the method, which can be used with same-sex couples as well as heterosexual ones, are shown in addressing infidelity, tapping into partners' spirituality, and modeling and encouraging mutual respect and support. Among the topics covered: Undoing gendered power in heterosexual couple relationships. Interpersonal neurobiology, couples, and the societal context. How gender discourses hijack couple therapy—and how it can be avoided. How SERT therapists develop interventions that address the larger context. Building a circle of care in same-sex couple relationships. Couple therapy with adult survivors of child abuse: gender, power, and trust. Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy opens out practical new possibilities for marriage and family therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and counselors seeking ideas for more meaningful couples work.

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