Full Description
The Marriage Checkup Practitioner amp rsquo s Guide teaches clinicians how to create spaces where partners can leave the busywork of daily life behind and reenter the intimate space between them with loving attention.
The Marriage Checkup (MC) is a short, two-session, assessment and feedback marital health check designed to help couples foster and deepen intimacy and confront their problems on an annual basis. The MC provides couples with feedback to help them discover new ideas about how to best serve the health of their marriage and the intimacy of their connection.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
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
References
Index
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