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Title: Emotion-Focused Couple Work: A Practitioner’s Guide
Author: WEBSTER MICHELLE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2021
Imprint: CONSIGNMENT STOCK
Price: $88.00
Publishing status: Active
What happens when the love has gone, when the desire to be with each other has been eroded, or when they tell you that if counselling doesnt work, the relationship is over? These are some of the problems practitioners face when couples come to counselling and psychotherapy. The Annandale approach to Emotion-Focused couple work is integrative, bringing together aspects of humanistic psychology and family therapy with those from psychodynamic psychotherapy. This practitioners guide provides the theory and practice for working with couples in both a short-and long-term way. Based on the authors forty years of clinical experience, a step-by-step methodology for working verbally and creatively is outlined and demonstrated.
This book offers a rich and comprehensive portrayal of the specialised work of the couple therapist. Well situated in the theoretical tradition of Emotion-Focused Therapy, it extends and deepens the work in application and in its Australian context. Michelles thoughtful, respectful and empathic connection to the work is imbued in her writing and in her case studies. Her extensive practice wisdom offers both therapists considering couple work and the advanced practitioner a great deal to savour and to immediately apply. Elisabeth Shaw, CEO Relationships Australia NSW, Clinical and Counselling Psychologist FAPS.
This book is a rich and easy-to-read guide to Emotion-Focused couple work. Michelles third book in her EFT series extends the Canadian models to include family therapy and psychodynamic thinking, as well as outlining the couple talk platform to which other experiential protocols can be added. Michelle has combined extensive research with the practicality and wisdom that comes from her decades of practising, supervising and teaching EFT. This book is one that will, and should, be repeatedly referred to by couple therapists. Clare Stapleton DSW (USyd), Mental health social worker. Senior supervisor and trainer at the Annandale Institute.
ISBN: 9780648048442