High-Conflict Couple
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High-Conflict Couple

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eBook - ePub

High-Conflict Couple

About this book

You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couplesā€”pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blameā€”need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love. When destructive emotions are at the heart of problems in your relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. If you're part of a "high-conflict" couple, you need to get control of your emotions first, to stop making things worse, and only then work on building a better relationship.

The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in your relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. Other approaches will help you disclose your fears, longings, and other vulnerabilities to your partner and validate his or her experiences in return. You'll discover ways to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and to find true acceptance and closeness with the person you love the most.

This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit ā€” an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.

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Yes, you can access High-Conflict Couple by Fruzzetti, Alan in PDF and/or ePUB format. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Year
1010
eBook ISBN
9781608824267

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1: Understanding Emotion in Relationships
  8. Chapter 2: Accepting Yourself and Your Partner
  9. Chapter 3: How to Stop Making Things Worse
  10. Chapter 4: Being ā€œTogetherā€ When You Are Together
  11. Chapter 5: Reactivating Your Relationship
  12. Chapter 6: Accurate Expression
  13. Chapter 7: Validating Responses: What to Validate and Why
  14. Chapter 8: Validating Responses: How to Validate Your Partner
  15. Chapter 9: Recovering from Invalidation
  16. Chapter 10: Managing Problems and Negotiating Solutions
  17. Chapter 11: Transforming Conflict into Closeness
  18. References
  19. Biography