Hope, Forgiveness, and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ripley, Jennifer S.

Worthington Jr., Everett L.

Mental Health

Routledge

This practical book provides a guide for therapists who want to be more effective in couple therapy. With 125 boxed interventions explained within a patient-friendly framework emphasizing hope and a strategy for change, this resource can expand the flexibility of any therapist regardless of theoretical approach. Providing a theoretical framework that sees interventions as aimed at strengthening couples' emotional bonds, Hope, Forgiveness and Positive Psychology in Couple Therapy aims to deliver a practical strategy to build love, enhance work, and promote partners' faith in each other and in therapy. Interventions are discussed within several parts: <ul> <li>Conducting the initial intake, assessment, and feedback,</li> <li>Coaching conflict resolution and better communication</li> <li>Promoting intimate bonding</li> <li>Helping couples close the injustice gap in several ways, one of which is forgiving,</li> <li>Helping couples reconcile</li> <li>Building trust, and</li> <li>Facilitating termination.</li> </ul> These interventions fit with all major couple therapies that embrace a patient-responsive approach. Most of the published research on the hope-focused couple approach is on treating secular couples. However, two previous books aimed at therapists who must treat religiously committed couples have been widely used in couple-counselling courses, clinics, and clinicians' private collections primarily because the interventions have been imminently useful. In the present book, aimed at general secular practice, there are almost 100 new interventions to enrich clinical practice with couples.

Following the successful Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling, Jennifer Ripley and Everett Worthington Jr. have written a new book that expands upon their previous theoretical approach while describing in detail new practical interventions for couple counseling and enrichment. Weaving together classic cases outlined in Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling and over 75 brand new practical interventions, Ripley and Worthington root their practical examples in an even deeper theoretical framework and research in attachment and intimate bonds. Written with the couple counselor in mind, this book occupies a rare niche that is accessible not only to therapists and counselors but also to pastors and married couples alike. Both licensed clinical psychologists and experienced counselors, the authors base this follow-up work on the pillars of their Hope-Focused Couples Approach. The assessment tools included help facilitate improved marriages in many settings, and the combination of theory and real-life case studies easily integrates into the practices of professional counselors and researchers as well as into the lives of couples. Instructor Resources for classroom use include activities, video demonstrations of the authors in couples therapy, audio lectures, testbank, chapter summaries and a sample syllabus.

Couple Therapy: A New Hope-Focused Approach (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books)

Self-Help

Relationships

IVP Academic

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