Schema Therapy with Couples : A Practitioner's Guide to Healing Relationships.

Intro -- 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 Literature -- 1.9 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 Relationships -- 3.5 Schema Identification -- 3.6 Core and Compensatory Schemas -- 3.7 Schema Coping Styles -- 3.8 Schema Chemistry in Therapy -- Summary -- 4 Understanding the Origins of Relational Styles -- 4.1 Healthy and Unhealthy Co-functioning -- 4.2 A Dark Legacy -- 4.3 Unconditional Love? -- 4.4 Dealing with the Past -- 4.5 A Note on Attraction -- 4.6 Brain "Chemistry" linked to Schemas -- 4.7 An Interlocking Schema Perspective -- 4.8 Drawing the Threads Together in Case Formulation -- 4.9 But why Theory? -- Summary -- 5 Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice in Couple Therapy.

5.1 Case Study: Bill and Betty -- 5.2 Repair Attempts -- 5.3 Accessing the Full Spectrum of Basic Emotions -- 5.4 A Dead End? -- 5.5 Additional Thoughts -- Summary -- 6 Schemas and Modes -- 6.1 From Schemas to Modes -- 6.2 The Mode Model in Detail -- 6.3 Additional Modes -- 6.4 The Infant Mode Concept -- 6.5 Some Additional Aspects Dealing with Child Modes -- 6.6 Mode Cycles in Couples -- Summary -- 7 Approaching Schema Therapy for Couples -- 7.1 Practical Tips for Making Therapy a Safe Place for the Couple -- 7.2 Balanced Attention Instead of Staying Neutral -- 7.3 Thinking about Language, Tonal Regulation and the Use of Words -- 7.4 Using Self-Disclosure and Healthy Family Models, Heroes, Spirituality, and Religion -- 7.5 Balancing the Level of Activation -- 7.6 Dealing with Volatile Couples -- 7.7 Working with Passive Individuals -- 7.8 Enhancing Communication Skills -- 7.9 What Schema Therapy brings to the Communication Process -- Summary -- 8 Mode Mapping and Mode Cycle Clash-cards -- 8.1 Introducing the Dimensional and Dynamic Mode Model -- 8.2 Mode Maps -- 8.3 Using Mode Cycle Clash-cards -- 8.4 Extended Case Example -- 8.5 Advantages of Mode Maps -- 8.6 Tim and Carol: Another Extended Example -- 8.7 Progress Mapped Out -- 8.8 A Road Map -- Summary -- 9 Interventions in Couple Treatment -- 9.1 The Role of Empathy -- 9.2 Imagery Work -- 9.3 Starting Imagery Rescripting -- 9.4 Impeachment -- 9.5 Caring for the Child -- 9.6 Making Imagery Work Safe for Individuals and Couples -- 9.7 Case Study: Michael and Amanda -- 9.8 Mode Dialogs on Multiple Chairs -- 9.9 Dealing with Anger -- 9.10 Working with Impulsive and Undisciplined Child modes -- 9.11 Rewind the Video -- 9.12 Behavioral Pattern Breaking and Homework Assignments -- 9.13 The Role of Mindfulness -- 9.14 A Couple Schema Plan -- 9.15 Conclusion -- Summary.

10 Common Problems in Couple Therapy, Including Affairs, Forgiveness, and Violence -- 10.1 Affairs -- 10.2 Preparing for Marriage or a Committed Relationship -- 10.3 Domestic Violence16 -- 10.4 Substance Abuse Related Problems -- 10.5 Returning to Couple Therapy -- 10.6 The Resistant Partner -- 10.7 The More Personality Disordered -- 10.8 Separation and Divorce -- Summary -- 11 Differentiating Needs from Wants, and the Challenge of Integration -- 11.1 Needs -- 11.2 The Difference between Needs and Wants -- 11.3 Practical Application -- 11.4 Advantages of Distinguishing Needs and Wants -- 11.5 An Exercise to focus on Unmet Needs -- 11.6 Bringing it all Together -- 11.7 Reconnecting the Vulnerable Children -- 11.8 Tone of Voice -- 11.9 Preparing for Termination -- Summary -- 12 Building Friendship, Building the Healthy Adult -- 12.1 Payments into a Relationship -- 12.2 Communicating as Healthy Adults -- 12.3 Build the Positives -- 12.4 Out-of-Session Trust Building -- 12.5 The Sexual Relationship -- 12.6 Schemas and Modes in Sexual Therapy -- 12.7 To Strengthen the Healthy Adult -- 12.8 Values as Strengthening the Healthy Adult -- 12.9 Happy Child as Well -- Summary -- Appendix A Self-care for the Couple Therapist -- A.1 The Risk of Working with Severe Personality Disorders -- A.2 The Psychopath -- A.3 The Borderline Patient -- A.4 The Sexual Boundary -- A.5 Positive Behaviors for Self-care -- Summary -- References -- Index of Therapy Tools and Interventions -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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