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
Chiara DiFrancesco is Director of the Wisconsin Family Growth andReconciliation Center, LLC, USA specializing in marriage &family, and a former Lieutenant in the US Public Health ServiceCommissioned Corps. She is founder and chair of the ISSTSubcommittee & Workgroup of Marital and Couples SchemaTherapy. Eckhard Roediger is a Neurologist, Psychiatrist, andPsychotherapist based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a former chiefphysician of the Salus Klinik Hospital, and is currently Directorof the Frankfurt Schema Therapy Institute and President of theISST. He is the author of several German language books on SchemaTherapy. Bruce Stevens is Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at theUniversity of Canberra, Australia, and Founder of Canberra Clinicaland Forensic Psychology. He was chair of the Canberra section ofthe Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society, andgives APS-sponsored workshops on couple therapy throughoutAustralia.
"Schema Therapy with Couples is a very helpful addition to the clinical couples' therapy literature, integrating the individual challenges people face in their own growth with managing a relationship with someone else who also faces their own individual challenges. Drs. DiFrancesco, Roediger, and Stevens provide a guide through this very difficult but everyday terrain that every couples therapist must navigate." John Gottman, Ph.D., Author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work "In 25 years of treating couples and closely following the literature, this is the most significant development I have seen. Schema Therapy with Couples provides a highly developed, systems-oriented theoretical model. With its foundation in schema therapy, this approach can deftly deal with the most severely dysfunctional couples by focusing on personality dysfunction, change at a deep cognitive-emotional level, and potent emotive techniques. This is an extraordinary volume, chock-full of figures, instructive clinical examples, and powerful clinical interventions, that will undoubtedly influence how you treat couples." Lawrence P. Riso, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Washington DC "For several years, the authors of this book have been active in a schema therapy for couples workgroup and now share their own insights and those of colleagues. They show how the central concepts and approach to case formulation and intervention in schema therapy provide a coherent integrative framework, and offer a set of guiding and enabling principles as well as practical examples of how to implement specific schema therapy interventions. Rich in clinical examples, this book will enable readers to encounter the distinctive contribution of the schema therapy approach to couples therapy." David Edwards, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Rhodes University and Schema Therapy Institute of South Africa "This book teaches the basics of couples in conflict, and provides a deeper, need-based understanding of what goes wrong in relationships. Therapists are offered a toolkit to meet, understand, evaluate and help couples to stay together despite interpersonal turmoil. Schema Therapy with Couples opens a new window of understanding and provides innovative ways to help." Gerhard Zarbock, PhD, Clinical psychologist, Director of IVAH, Hamburg, Germany, co-author of Mindfulness for Therapists
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