The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families

The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families provides beginning clinicians with concrete, practical skills and expanded theoretical base for their practice. Readers will be able to apply their new knowledge directly and in ways that will help them create long-lasting change in clients who present with difficult behaviors.

Tom Caplan

Introducing the Needs ABC Model. Couples Therapy. Introducing the Needs ABC Relational Needs and Emotion-Focused Components. Expectations for an Optimal Therapeutic Setting. Using the Needs ABC Model in Couple and Family Therapy. Unconscious Factors and Relational Needs. Power and Control in Couples Therapy. Life Stages and Couples. Additional Techniques. After Treatment. Conclusion. References.