Couples in Treatment

Since publication of the first edition of Couples in Treatment, this classic text has been an indispensable resource for beginning couples therapists: a concise, practical guide to moving from theory and content to process and the therapist's use of self. With the same clarity of focus and style, Gerald Weeks and Stephen Treat have now updated and added to the original discussions of basic principles, approaches, and techniques that include assessment and case formulation, systemic intervention, enhancing intimacy, marital contracting, and conflict resolution.

Two entirely new chapters cover work with highly reactive and narcissistically wounded couples and treatment of extramarital affairs. Honed and refined throughout four decades of clinical experience with 40 couples each week, the authors' approach is unique in its simultaneous emphasis on both problem resolution and couples growth. This second edition promises continued popularity with novice and veteran therapists in their efforts at ever more effective couples therapy.