Internal Family Systems couple therapy skills manual : healing relationships with intimacy from the inside out / Martha Sweezy, Toni Herbine-Blank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbine-Blank, Toni, author.

Sweezy, Martha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couples therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eau Claire, Wisconsin : PESI Publications, [2021]

Summary:

IFS Couple Therapy Skills Manual presents clinicians with a powerful, non-pathologizing approach to helping couples better understand themselves, their differences, and the underlying reasons for their suffering.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

About the Authors

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section 1: Basic Concepts

The Nature of Parts

The U-Turn

Tips on Countertransference

Glossary of Terms and Concepts

Section 2: Treatment in Three Phases

Phase 1 of Treatment: Learning: Assessment: IFIO is Collaborative and Non-Pathologizing

An Initial Session

Phase 2 of Treatment: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Tracking Patterns of Conflict

Courageous Communication: Change Your Conversation to Change Your Relationship

Setting the Table for a Hard Conversation with Courageous Communication

Communicating with Courage

Giving and Receiving

Intrapsychic Work in Couple Therapy: Going Inside

Going Inside

Shaming and Shamefulness

Healing the Wounds of Shaming

Phase 3 of Treatment: Ending

Forgiveness

Betrayal and Repair

Section 3: Relational Neurobiology in IFIO

Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System

Section 4: Challenges for Therapists

Therapists have Parts: What's Hard in Therapy is What's Hard for you

Therapist Parts: Responding to Our Own Reactivity

Section 5: Experiential Exercises: Reenactments, Rescripting, and Repair

Experimenting with Experiences: Re-Enactment

Becoming the Other

Conclusion

References.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-68373-368-1

OCLC:

1273913995