Schema Therapy with Couples: A Practitioner's Guide to Healing Relationships [Paperback]

• Shows how the distinctive features of ST make it ideal for addressing the cognitive and emotion-focused problems typical in couple relationships
• Presents and integrates a series of innovative tools and interventions such as Schema Therapy with Needs versus Wants, Mode Cycle Clash Cards, limited re-parenting visualization, and chair work
• Authored by an international team of experts in couples therapy and Schema Therapy

List of Figures and Tables vii

About the Authors viii

Preface x

Acknowledgments xiii

Abbreviations xiv

Introduction xv

About the Companion Website xvii

1 What Schema Therapy Offers 1

2 The Initial Contract and First Interview 13

3 Relationship Assessment 29

4 Understanding the Origins of Relational Styles 45

5 Foundations for Evidence?]Based Practice in Couple Therapy 57

6 Schemas and Modes 69

7 Approaching Schema Therapy for Couples 95

8 Mode Mapping and Mode Cycle Clash?]cards 109

9 Interventions in Couple Treatment 139

10 Common Problems in Couple Therapy, Including Affairs, Forgiveness, and Violence 173

11 Differentiating Needs from Wants, and the Challenge of Integration 215

12 Building Friendship, Building the Healthy Adult 239

Appendix A: Self-care for the Couple Therapist 253

References 261

Index of Therapy Tools and Interventions 271

Index 273