Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /

"This innovative text offers a simple but comprehensive framework for couple assessment that integrates research and information on couples from a wide range of models. Using the 7 Cs as a basis for guiding assessment, chapters move through key areas of couple functioning including communicatio...

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Main Author: Williams, Lee, author 652029
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Language:eng
Published: New York, NY : Taylor & Francis, 2022
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description "This innovative text offers a simple but comprehensive framework for couple assessment that integrates research and information on couples from a wide range of models. Using the 7 Cs as a basis for guiding assessment, chapters move through key areas of couple functioning including communication, conflict resolution, culture, commitment, caring and sex, contract, and character. An additional chapter on children also offers insights into assessment of couples who parent. Offering a broad and accessible framework that can be applied to a variety of theoretical perspectives, the book highlights how the 7 Cs can be used to inform both assessment and treatment of couples. Numerous case examples are interwoven throughout the text to demonstrate how therapists may utilize this approach to work with a diverse client base. Written in an accessible style, Assessment in Couple Therapy is an essential tool for students of marriage and family therapy and beginning therapists, as well as seasoned mental health professionals working with couples in a range of settings"--
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spelling KOHA-OAI-TEST:6083762023-11-22T03:21:15ZAssessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships / Williams, Lee, author 652029 textNew York, NY : Taylor & Francis,2022©2022eng"This innovative text offers a simple but comprehensive framework for couple assessment that integrates research and information on couples from a wide range of models. Using the 7 Cs as a basis for guiding assessment, chapters move through key areas of couple functioning including communication, conflict resolution, culture, commitment, caring and sex, contract, and character. An additional chapter on children also offers insights into assessment of couples who parent. Offering a broad and accessible framework that can be applied to a variety of theoretical perspectives, the book highlights how the 7 Cs can be used to inform both assessment and treatment of couples. Numerous case examples are interwoven throughout the text to demonstrate how therapists may utilize this approach to work with a diverse client base. Written in an accessible style, Assessment in Couple Therapy is an essential tool for students of marriage and family therapy and beginning therapists, as well as seasoned mental health professionals working with couples in a range of settings"--Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction: Assessing Couples Using the 7 C’s -- 2. Getting Started – Structuring Assessment -- 3. Communication -- 4. Conflict Resolution -- 5. Culture -- 6. Commitment -- 7. Caring -- 8. Assessing a Couple’s Sexual Relationship -- 9. Contract -- 10. Character -- 11. Children: An Eighth C? -- 12. Moving Beyond the Initial Assessment"This innovative text offers a simple but comprehensive framework for couple assessment that integrates research and information on couples from a wide range of models. Using the 7 Cs as a basis for guiding assessment, chapters move through key areas of couple functioning including communication, conflict resolution, culture, commitment, caring and sex, contract, and character. An additional chapter on children also offers insights into assessment of couples who parent. Offering a broad and accessible framework that can be applied to a variety of theoretical perspectives, the book highlights how the 7 Cs can be used to inform both assessment and treatment of couples. Numerous case examples are interwoven throughout the text to demonstrate how therapists may utilize this approach to work with a diverse client base. Written in an accessible style, Assessment in Couple Therapy is an essential tool for students of marriage and family therapy and beginning therapists, as well as seasoned mental health professionals working with couples in a range of settings"--Couples therapyFamily psychotherapyMarital psychotherapyURN:ISBN:9780367752996
spellingShingle Couples therapy
Family psychotherapy
Marital psychotherapy
Williams, Lee, author 652029
Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /
title Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /
title_full Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /
title_fullStr Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /
title_full_unstemmed Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /
title_short Assessment in Couple Therapy : Navigating the 7 Cs of Relationships /
title_sort assessment in couple therapy navigating the 7 cs of relationships
topic Couples therapy
Family psychotherapy
Marital psychotherapy
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