In Quest of the Mythical Mate presents a valuable and fertile developmental model for diagnosing and treating couples that is flexible enough to incorporate a wide variety of intervention strategies, yet purposeful enough to give a clear sense of direction to couples in distress. As such, this volume provides a powerful therapeutic approach for all professionals who treat couples.

A session by session guide book for mental health practitioners on how to conduct evidence-based couples counseling. The book guides the therapist step by step through twelve sessions, and covers everything from the very first client phone call all the way through termination.

It is possible to find true love through dating. In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to "kiss dating goodbye" but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta's personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor. Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They're bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help. True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.

Couples in Conflict describes the nature of the emotional processes leading to difficulties and how a minister/ counselor can be a resource to help couples in conflict. The minister/counselor will be able to help them improve their lives personally, as well as their relationship and family life. By extension, couples will also develop skills that will improve their work life and their life in community. The book provides practical and specific approaches to helping these couples and the issues that a minister must deal with in order to be useful to them.

An examination of projective identification and its clinical uses from a Kleinian perspective. The author puts forward the hypothesis that identification is the patient's way of mastering significant trauma.

Are you tired of having the same arguments and fights with your partner? Do you wonder if your relationship will ever change or if it can be saved? If you are seeking a permanent fix to all of your greatest relationship problems this book is for you. Finding Your Relationship Fix: The Four Reasons to Seek Couples Counseling, outlines the most common reasons couples go to therapy and demonstrates how these issues are treated in counseling. Readers are provided with the tools they need to fix their relationship problems and eliminate the barriers that plague even the greatest of relationships. Marriage and family therapist Chris A. Matthews combines his advanced training and his thousands of hours treating couples to present readers with the solutions they desperately are seeking. From healing after infidelity to fixing broken communication patterns, Chris shares basic therapeutic techniques that couples can apply to find their own relationship fixes and prime them for more in-depth couples therapy. This is an easy-to-read book that does a great job of breaking down the most common issues that lead couples to seek counseling. This book uses real examples of couples who sought therapy to obtain truth and healing-and a fix to their relationship problems.

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