The marriage checkup practitioner's guide : promoting lifelong relationship health /

"The goal of this book and of the Marriage Checkup (MC) program in general is to do for marital health care what regular checkups have done for dental health care: provide a means for effectively promoting lifelong relationship health. Although the research continues to evolve, the bulk of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cordova, James V., 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author:	American Psychological Association
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2014]
Subjects:	Marriage counseling. Marital quality. Marital psychotherapy. Marriage > Psychological aspects. Electronic books Electronic books. Marriage > psychology. Psychotherapy.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

What is the marriage checkup?
Basics of working with couples in brief intervention
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.