Helping Couples Change: A Social Learning Approach to Marital Therapy - Hardcover

Stuart, Richard B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898626048 ISBN 13: 9780898626049

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1980

Synopsis

Now available in paper for the first time, this classic work presents a structured, rigorously tested, six-stage strategy for improving intimate relationships. Therapists and counselors will benefit from practical, step-by-step guidance for deciding how, why, and when to employ such widely cited Stuart techniques as "caring days," communication improvements, behavioral contracting, the "powergram" procedure for decision making, and conflict containment. These techniques not only provide a program for identifying and producing positive behavior change, but give the therapist the tools to assess therapeutic outcome and empirically validate the efficacy of change. A new preface to the paperback edition situates the book within the contemporary couple therapy landscape and reflects on the continuing evolution of the author's approach.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard B. Stuart, DSW, ABPP, is Program Director, Respecialization in Clinical Psychology, The Fielding Graduate Institute, and Clinical Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington. He has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience in psychology, psychiatry, family medicine, and social work.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

1. Why Treat Troubled Marriages? 2. Values and Philosophy in Selecting Marital Therapy Goals and Methods 3. Techniques of Therapy Based on Social Learning Theory 4. Assessing Troubled Marriages 5. Structuring the Therapeutic Process 6. Caring Days: A Technique for Building Commitment to Faltering Marriages 7. Communication Change 8. Structuring Behavior Exchanges 9. Allocating the Authority to Make Decisions 10. Conflict Containment 11. Sex Therapy Freida M. Stuart and D. Corydon Hammond 12. Maintaining Results References Author Index Subject Index

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0898626048
• ISBN 13: 9780898626049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442