Creating Optimal Relationships (eBook)

Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples

James Elliott, Kathryn Elliott (Autoren)

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2015
232 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3811-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples offers the field of marriage and family therapy a breakthrough model for equipping therapists to help couples achieve intense, depth relationships for bliss across the lifespan of a couple’s relationship. The book provides clear, step-by-step strategies for providing in-session treatments that are practical and ultimately doable by couples even after the therapeutic relationship terminates.

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Recent relationship science research finds that intense, satisfying romantic love is a real phenomenon occurring in couples. Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples provides the field of marriage and family therapy with the first model for assisting couples to sustain bliss for a lifetime. The voltage concept, based on over forty years of clinical research, uses a skills-based approach from Anthetic Relationship Therapy. By providing psychodynamic skills for facilitating each partner's psychological growth, the psychological infrastructure is then achieved for supporting optimal relating skills. The voltage concept presents a useful dichotomy of closeness levels to which partners aspire. Couples who want a more surface relationship fit a Low-Voltage Relationship model marked by less emotional intensity. With such couples, minimal skills can be taught to reduce any conflict that brought them to therapy. High-Voltage couples desire great emotional depth and receive skills to help them achieve it. Perhaps even more valuable, the voltage vocabulary equips clinicians and partners in understanding a common source of couple conflict; that is, the voltage mismatch. The book offers options for treatment when a voltage discrepancy exists in the couple.

Autor

James Elliott, PhD, created Anthetic Therapy and Anthetic Relationship Therapy and founded the Anthetics Institute in Berkeley, California and Lafayette, LouisianaKathryn Elliott, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT, is director of Anthetic Therapy Center.

Inhalt

Chapter 1What Is the High-Voltage RelationshipChapter 2A New Psychology as the Foundation for the High-Voltage RelationshipChapter 3The Inner Critic and Its Sabotaging Effects on RelationshipsChapter 4Using the Anthetic Inner Figure LanguageChapter 5 What It Takes to Create a High-Voltage Relationship: The Anthetic ValuesChapter 6Eight Intrapersonal High-Voltage SkillsChapter 7Nine Skills to Empower the Self for Optimal RelatingChapter 8 Creating Connection: The Interpersonal High-Voltage Communication SkillsChapter 9Interpersonal Skills for Handling Negativity in RelationshipsChapter 10Increasing the Voltage: Depth Connecting SkillsChapter 11Handling the Voltage MismatchChapter 12 Maintenance Skills: High-Voltage for a Lifetime

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2015
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Schlagworte: Counseling • couples • psychotherapy
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-3811-9 / 1442238119
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3811-4 / 9781442238114