Strategic couples therapy & mediation

15 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 Prescribe Silence When Couples Talk Too Much
• 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 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