Positive Couple Therapy

Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience provides practical instruction for reclaiming stories that provide a sense of hope to relationships that have become stressed. The authors weave together cutting-edge research and cover a range of contemporary couple experiences: couples living apart, together, LGBT partnerships, deployed and discharged military couples, and relationships at various points across a life span.

Jefferson A. Singer is the Elizabeth H. Faulk Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College and a clinical psychologist in private practice. Karen Skerrett is a staff member at the Family Institute/Center for Applied Psychological Studies at Northwestern University and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University.

1. What is the "We"? 2. The Power of Stories in Our Lives 3. Assessing the "We" in Therapy 4. Helping Couples Cultivate their We-Stories 5. Stuck Stories: Helping Couples Confront and Move Beyond Them 6. Building We-Stories across the Life Cycle 7. Living and Telling the "We"-Giving Our Stories Away