Couple skills : making your relationship work /
Couple Skills will show you how to work smarter in your relationship. You'll learn to improve communication, cope better with problems, and resolve conflicts with the one you love in healthy and creative ways. Each chapter teaches you an essential skill that supports greater relationship satisf...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, CA :
New Harbinger,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 2006, 2nd edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Basic skills. Listening. Expressing feelings and scripting needs. Reciprocal reinforcement
- Advanced skills. Clean communication. Identifying and changing cognitive distortions. Negotiation. Problem solving
- Anger and conflict. Assessing and changing aversive strategies. Coping with anger. Coping with an angry partner. Time-out
- Understanding and changing what goes wrong. Identifying schemas about your partner. Old tapes : separating your partner from your parents. Coping with your defenses. Identifying your couple system. Intervening in your system. Expectations and rules. Acceptance and commitment for couples.