Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner

GARY M. SCHULTHEIS is a licensed clinical social worker and counselor. He maintains a private practice in Evansville, Indiana. BILL O'HANLON has authored or coauthored seventeen books and teaches psychotherapy workshops internationally. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. STEFFANIE O'HANLON is a licensed clinical social worker and writer. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

GENERIC TASKS; Chart Your Course; Taking Charge of Change; Unpack Loaded and Vague Words; Doing Love and Intimacy; Track the Problems and Solutions; Identify and Validate Your Partner's Feelings and Points of View; Changing Character Indictments to Action Descriptions; Identify What Has Worked and Do More of That; Little Things Mean a Lot; Keep One Eye on the Road; Time Travel; What Is Your Map of Love-Land?; Acknowledgment; Catch Your Partner Doing Something Right; Let Your Partner Know What Behaviors You'd Like; Just the Facts, Ma'am; Map the Problem; Breaking Patterns; Don't Get Even, Get Odd; Change the Context; Negotiating Impasses; Choreograph an Argument; Go Ape; Letter to the Problem; Going Postal Instead of Going Postal; Lighten Your Load; Can Do!; Plant a Tree; GENERAL ISSUES/VALUES CONFLICTS FOR COUPLES; Value Your Differences; Accountability; Restoring Trust and Faith When One Partner Has Betrayed the Relationship; Inequities; Feeling Responsible: Who Initiates Things That Need to Be Done; Intimacy; Styles of and Motivation for Arguing; Forgiveness; Money/Financial Conflicts; A Common Destination; Negotiating Socializing Preference Differences; SPECIFIC PROBLEM AREAS FOR COUPLES; Chronic or Unproductive Arguments; Verbal Abuse; Boxing Clutter to a TKO; Separating Work from Home Life; Planned Spontaneity; A Safe Place for the Traumatic Memories; Chronic Lateness from Work; How to Support a Partner with a Chronic or Serious Illness; Set Limits with Consequences; Mix 'N' Match Sexual Menu for Expanding Your Sex Life; Pleasure Teaching Session; Dealing with Impotence; Help for Premature Ejaculation; Initiation Week; Lightening Up about Sexuality and Weight Gain; A Night to Remember; Wrestling with the Challenging Task of Parenting; In-Law Problems; Get a Roommate; Circle the Wagons; REPRODUCIBLE FORMS AND BROCHURES; Guidelines for Couples' Communication; How to Solve Relationship Problems; Creating or Renewing Intimacy; Pocket Emergency Guidelines; Getting Over an Affair; Dealing with a Partner or Spouse with a Chemical Abuse Problem; Preventing or Dealing with Violence in a Relationship; Solving Sexual Problems; Train Your Therapist; Relationship Rescue: Ten Methods for Resolving Relationship Crises; Dealing with the Death of a Child; Generic Assignment Form; References; About the Disk.