Acceptance and commitment therapy for couples : a clinician's guide to using mindfulness, values & schema awareness to rebuild relationships / Avigail Lev, Matthew McKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lev, Avigail, author.

McKay, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acceptance and commitment therapy.

Couples.

Interpersonal psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Context Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples, best-selling author Matthew McKay and psychologist Avigail Lev present the ten most common relationship schemas, and provide an evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) treatment protocol for professionals. With these powerful tools, therapists will be better able to help couples overcome the unhealthy coping behaviors and barriers that hold them back so they can move forward to create happier, healthier relationships.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Where Couple Conflicts Start

2. Learning About Schemas

3. Schema Coping Behaviors and the Role of Avoidance

4. Values Clarification for Couples

5. Identifying Barriers to Values-Based Actions and Recognizing Moments of Choice

6. Cognitive Barriers to Values-Based Actions

7. Emotional Barriers to Values-Based Actions

8. Skill Deficits as Barriers to Values-Based Actions

9. Values-Based Problem Solving

10. Perspective Taking

11. Session Structure: The Eight-Step Protocol.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 13, 2017).

ISBN:

9781626254817

1626254818

OCLC:

975225492