The Socio-Emotional Relationship Workbook for Couples

This supportive and empowering guide helps readers identify and build on their relational values, which the dominant culture tends to minimize, inhibit, or disparage.

Dr. Carmen Knudson-Martin served as a director of masters and doctoral marriage, couple, and family therapy programs for 33 years and is currently professor emerita of marriage, couple, and family therapy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1. Why So Many Relationships Fail-and the Secret to Success 2. Center Relationships 3. Develop Socio-Emotional Awareness 4. Appreciate Emotion 5. Explore Relational Power 6. Express Mutual Vulnerability 7. Attune to One Another 8. Open to Influence 9. Share Responsibility for the Relationship 10. Oh No! Not Again: Persistently Return to Your Relational Goals