Counseling Couples in Conflict: A Relational Restoration Model
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Overview
Most therapeutic approaches, especially those of a cognitive orientation, are not very effective in dealing with high conflict relationships—couples often heading toward divorce by the time they seek help.
Counseling Couples in Conflict is a resource for pastors and counselors who want to be ready for these uniquely difficult cases. Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model Mark Yarhouse and James Sells point the way beyond the cycle of pain towards marital healing.
- Includes Contextual, Emotion Focused and Object Relations Family Therapy
- Offers the knowledge of the therapeutic process, drawn from multiple family systems theories
- Helps readers to have success in working with couples who seek relational renewal and restoration
The Preface to Marital Counseling
- Marriage at a Crucial Stage of Existence
- Three Fights in One
- Marriage Is an Us
- Pastoral and Counseling Boundaries: Invested but not Overinvolved
The Process of Conflict and Restoration
- Pain and Defense
- Offense and Injury
- Grace and Justice
- Empathy and Trust
- Forgiveness
Marital Counseling Applied
- The Expressive Art of Sexuality
- The Product of Art: Children and Parenting
- Sexual Infidelity
- Divorce and Blended Families
- Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions
- A Graceful Conclusion