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Couple skills, making your relationship work, Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Kim Paleg

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Couple skills

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Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Kim Paleg

making your relationship work

Love takes work, but, when it comes to relationships, it pays to work smarter. Couple Skills, Second Edition, revised and updated from the therapist-recommended classic, 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 satisfaction and deeper intimacy. New to this edition is a chapter on using acceptance skills, developed from the revolutionary new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These new approaches will help you to accept your partner's feelings (and your own emotions) without judgment. Using these techniques will help you decide what you really value in your relationship and then commit to acting in ways that further those values every day"Love takes work, but, when it comes to relationships, it pays to work smarter. Couple Skills, Second Edition, revised and updated from the therapist-recommended classic, 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 satisfaction and deeper intimacy. New to this edition is a chapter on using acceptance skills, developed from the revolutionary new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These new approaches will help you to accept your partner's feelings (and your own emotions) without judgment. Using these techniques will help you decide what you really value in your relationship and then commit to acting in ways that further those values every day."--, Provided by publisher

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

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