Summary
Contents
Subject index
Couple Counselling outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, the author provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through to subsequent sessions. The book includes a wealth of supporting features including case examples, student exercises, points for reflection and memory-jog pages to use in practice. As well as chapters illustrating counselling for problems frequently experienced by couples, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, violence and abuse, key content includes:This book comprises a sound basis for one-to-one practitioners wishing to expand their expertise and practice of therapy into working with couples, and for students training in this mode of counselling.
Advanced Practices
Advanced Practices
In this chapter, I describe three narrative therapy practices that were either specifically developed for couple work or are particularly suited to it. They are more complex, and perhaps more difficult to grasp and put into practice, than those described in the previous chapters. I suggest that these practices are best not considered for use until there is full familiarity with using the first and subsequent session frameworks, and the original authors' detailed accounts should be consulted in addition to my summaries.
Internalizing Other' Questioning
Warring Couples
David Epston discusses this practice in a paper published in Gilligan and Price (1993). The ‘internalizing other’ format for asking questions was developed as a means of ‘[disrupting] those warring couples who construed couple counselling as a venue ...
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