Cognitive and Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy with Couples

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction to Counseling Couples

   • James McMahon, Candice Siu Woo

   Pages 1-15

3. Using Mindfulness with Couples: Theory and Practice

   • Monica O’Kelly, James Collard

   Pages 17-31

4. Helping Couples Dispel Myths and Self-Defeating Beliefs and Behaviors that Sabotage Relationships and Marriage

   • Ann Vernon

   Pages 33-48

5. Helping Couples Deal with Relationship Ambivalence

   • Richard Dowling, Siobhan O’Leary Evarts, Ann Vernon

   Pages 49-63

6. Helping Couples Deal with Anger and Conflict

   • Vanessa Woods

   Pages 65-80

7. Helping Couples Deal with Stress and Adversity

   • Mary Russell, Andrew E. Slaby

   Pages 81-95

8. Helping Couples Deal with Intimacy and Sexuality

   • Mike Abrams

   Pages 97-115

9. Helping Couples Deal with Betrayal and Affairs

   • David Stoop

   Pages 117-132

10. Counseling Same-Sex Couples: Dispelling Myths and Understanding the Unique Challenges

    • Paul Martin

    Pages 133-148

11. Helping Couples Deal with Cultural and Religious Diversity

    • Leonor Lega, Steve A. Johnson

    Pages 149-168

12. Helping Couples Deal with Addictions

    • F. Michler Bishop

    Pages 169-189

13. Helping Couples Deal with Chronic Medical or Mental Illness of a Partner or Child

    • Robyn E. Kurasaki, Mark D. Terjesen

    Pages 191-210

14. Helping Couples Deal with Terminal Illness

    • Kristene A. Doyle

    Pages 211-223

15. Helping Couples Deal with Parenting and Grandparenting

    • Ann Vernon, Dom DiMattia

    Pages 225-241

16. Helping Couples Deal with Aging

    • Michael Hickey, James McMahon, Margaret Swarbrick

    Pages 243-261

17. Back Matter

    Pages 263-277

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The book addresses the problems that couples experience through the life cycle. Each chapter includes an up-to-date review of the literature pertinent to the topic, with a focus on practical interventions which are generally based upon, but not limited to, cognitive and rational emotive behavioral principles. Case studies or vignettes further illustrate application of principles. Worksheets, checklists, or other resources that would be useful in working with couples are also  included where relevant. This book presents interventions based upon research, theory, and most of all on practice. And is relevant to marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, family law experts, social workers and relationship coaches. In addition, it can serve as a textbook for students in marriage and family therapy.

• Construction and theoryless theory (Pragmatism)
• Counseling couples
• Couple communication/dealing with conflict
• Couple conflict
• Couple therapy
• Couples and adversity
• Couples and stress
• Families and death of a spouse
• Family and chronic illness
• Intervention strategies
• Marital instability
• Marital myths
• Mentoring couples
• Relationship breakdown

• University of Northern Iowa, Tucson, USA

  Ann Vernon

Ann Vernon, Ph.D., Sc.D., RLPC, is President of the Albert Ellis Board of Trustees, a Diplomate of the Albert Ellis Institute, a member of the International Training Standards and Review Committee of the AEI, a member of the Board of Consulting Advisors for the Journal of Rational-Emotive Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and former Director of the Midwest Center for REBT.  In addition, she was selected by the American Psychological Association to do a counseling video demonstration entitled Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Over Time: Psychotherapy in Six Sessions. Dr. Vernon is recognized as an international expert in applications of RE&CBT with children and adolescents and has written numerous books, chapters, and articles about counseling this population, including Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum, What Works When with Children and Adolescents: A Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques, The Passport Program, and More What Works When with Children and Adolescents.  She is also the editor of Counseling Children and Adolescents, a textbook that is used throughout the country and in other parts of the world in many counselor education programs.  Dr. Vernon is Professor Emerita, University of Northern Iowa, where she served as Coordinator of the School and Mental Health Counseling programs for many years. In addition to her university appointment, Dr. Vernon was in private practice, working with children and adolescents, as well as couples and women presenting with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.  She currently conducts RE&CBT training programs in Romania at the University of Oradea, the RINO Mental Health Center in Amsterdam, and throughout Australia for Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy Australia.  For many years she has been an active presenter in the United States, Canada, and South America, offering workshops on a variety of topics related to counseling children and adolescents.

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