Hope-focused marriage counseling : a guide to brief therapy /
Worthington, Everett L., 1946-
Hope-focused marriage counseling : a guide to brief therapy / Everett L. Worthington, Jr. - Expanded pbk. ed. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2005. - xli, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-303) and indexes.
Brief marital counseling -- Bird's eye view of hope-focused marriage counseling -- Using the strategy to promote hope -- Applying the strategy to eight areas of marriage -- Precounseling interventions -- Assessment interventions -- Interventions for drawing on central values -- Interventions for revisioning a core vision -- Interventions for promoting confession & forgiveness -- Interventions for strengthening communication -- Interventions for aiding conflict resolution -- Interventions for changing cognition -- Interventions for stimulating more closeness -- Interventions for cementing commitment -- Interventions for promoting couple commencement from counseling -- Essentials of hope-focused marriage counseling -- Appendix: Hope-focused marriage counseling with a young professional couple: a case study (Terry L. Hight).
0830815481 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780830815487 (cloth : alk. paper) 0830827641 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780830827640 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005052145
Marriage counseling.
Pastoral counseling.
Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Solution-focused brief therapy.
BV 4012.27 / W933h 2005
Hope-focused marriage counseling : a guide to brief therapy / Everett L. Worthington, Jr. - Expanded pbk. ed. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2005. - xli, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-303) and indexes.
Brief marital counseling -- Bird's eye view of hope-focused marriage counseling -- Using the strategy to promote hope -- Applying the strategy to eight areas of marriage -- Precounseling interventions -- Assessment interventions -- Interventions for drawing on central values -- Interventions for revisioning a core vision -- Interventions for promoting confession & forgiveness -- Interventions for strengthening communication -- Interventions for aiding conflict resolution -- Interventions for changing cognition -- Interventions for stimulating more closeness -- Interventions for cementing commitment -- Interventions for promoting couple commencement from counseling -- Essentials of hope-focused marriage counseling -- Appendix: Hope-focused marriage counseling with a young professional couple: a case study (Terry L. Hight).
0830815481 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780830815487 (cloth : alk. paper) 0830827641 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780830827640 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005052145
Marriage counseling.
Pastoral counseling.
Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Solution-focused brief therapy.
BV 4012.27 / W933h 2005