Title:
The marriage checkup practitioner's guide : promoting lifelong relationship health / James V. Cordova.
Author:
Cordova, James V., 1966-
Publication Information:
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
HQ10 .C627 2014
Abstract:
This text teaches clinicians how to create spaces where partners can leave the busywork of daily life behind and reenter the intimate space between them with loving attention. The Marriage Checkup (MC) is a short, two-session, assessment and feedback marital health check designed to help couples foster and deepen intimacy and confront their problems on an annual basis. The MC provides couples with feedback to help them discover new ideas about how to best serve the health of their marriage and the intimacy of their connection.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781433815522
Physical Description:
xii, 268 pages ; 26 cm.
Contents:
What is the marriage checkup? -- Basics of working with couples in brief interventions -- Adapting therapeutic assessment, motivational interviewing, and integrative couple therapy to a marriage checkup -- Goals of motivational feedback -- Conducting the marriage checkup assessment session -- Writing the feedback report -- Conducting the feedback session -- Menu for addressing common areas of concern -- Menu for presenting couples' strengths -- Findings and future directions for marriage checkup research.
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