Couples
20 articles in this category.
- Designing a Penance for Infidelity to Restore Marital Balance
- How to Block Mind Reading During Couples Mediation
- How to Handle the Threat of Divorce Used as a Weapon
- How to Intervene When One Partner Has Already Emotionally Left
- How to Prescribe Silence When Couples Talk Too Much
- How to Stop Pursuer-Distancer Patterns with a Single Directive
- How to Use a Trial Separation as a Therapeutic Directive
- Reframing Jealousy as Protective Caring: A Strategic Shift
- Stopping the Blame Game: Shifting Focus from the Past to the Present Sequence
- Strategic Mediation: Forcing the Couple to Argue Over a Trivial Object
- The Courtship Task: Forcing a Distressed Couple to Date Again
- The Emergency Stabilization Directive for Couples on the Brink
- The Gratitude Directive: Rebuilding Positive Sentiment with Hostile Couples
- The Listening Only Task for Defensive Partners
- The No Sex Directive: Taking the Pressure off Intimacy Problems
- The Odd Days Even Days Rule for Managing High-Conflict Couples
- The Veto Power Technique for Gridlocked Financial Decisions
- Treating an Individual's Problem as a Marital Metaphor
- Unbalancing a Couple: How and When to Strategically Take Sides
- Using the Partner as Co-Therapist for the Other Partner's Symptom