Couples in Treatment : Techniques and Approaches for Effective Practice (2nd ed)

This is the second edition of a concise, practical guide aimed at beginning couple therapists.

Gerald Weeks and Stephen Treat have now updated and added to the original discussions of basic principles, approaches, and techniques that include assessment and case formulation, systematic intervention, enhancing intimacy, marital contracting, and conflict resolution.

Two new chapters cover work with highly reactive and narcissistically wounded couples and treatment of extramarital affairs.

Honed and refined throughout four decades of clinical experience with 40 couples each week, the authors' approach is unique in its simultaneous emphasis on both problem resolution and couples growth.