Short-Term Couples Therapy

Short-Term Couples Therapy presents a unique reality-based approach to facilitate effective couple interaction, updates the processes and theory that have proven so effective in the short-term approach to couples therapy, and incorporates the major advances in the practice of Imago Relationship Therapy

Wade Luquet, M.S.W., Ph.D., is associate professor of Sociology at Gwynedd-Mercy College in suburban Philadelphia, PA. He is also on the academic faculty of Imago Relationships International. He maintains a private practice in North Wales, PA, with his wife, Marianne.

List of Homework/Handout Sheets for the Couple. Foreword. Preface. Hendrix, Foreword. How to Use Yhis Book. Making Couples Therapy Work - Start with the Basic Ingredients. Theory and Therapy. Couples Dialogue: The Essential Skill. Session One: The Cosmic Journey, the Brain, and Couples Dialogue. Session Two: Development, Childhood Wounds, and Mate Selection. Session Three: Developing Empathy and Reimaging the Partners. Session Four: Reromanticizing the Relationship. Session Five: Restructuring Frustrations. Session Six: Resolving Rage. After the Therapy. Being Creative With the Basic Format and Working With Special Populations. Case Studies. Appendix I: Resources. Appendix II: The Efficacy of Short-term Imago Therapy - Preliminary Findings. Appendix III: Brief Report: Short-term Imago Therapy and Changes in Personal and Relationship Distress. Bibliography. Acknowledgements from the First Edition. Homework and Handout Sheets for Couples.