Schema therapy with couples : a practitioner's guide to healing relationships / Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco, PhD, counseling psychologist, Eckhard Roediger, MD, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Bruce A. Stevens, PhD, clinical psychologist.

"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 "-- Provided by publisher.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: About the Authors 3 Preface 4 Acknowledgments 6 Introduction 7 Chapter 1 What Schema Therapy Offers 9 Chapter 2 The Initial Contract and First Interview 19 Chapter 3 Relationship Assessments 32 Chapter 4 Understanding the Origins of Relational Styles 45 Chapter 5 Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice in Couple Therapy 55 Chapter 6 Schemas and Modes 64 Chapter 7 Approaching Schema Therapy for Couples 85 Chapter 8 Mode Mapping and Mode Cycle Clash-cards 95 Chapter 9 Interventions in Couple Treatment 117 Chapter 10 Common Problems in Couple Therapy, including Affairs, Forgiveness, and Violence 145 Chapter 11 Differentiating Needs from Wants, and the Challenge of Integration 181 Chapter 12 Building Friendship, Building the Healthy Adult 198 Appendix: Self-care for the Couple Therapist 210 References 216 Abbreviations 225 Index of Therapy Tools and Interventions 226 Index 228.

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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; 3.6 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 Betty5.2 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 Religion7.5 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