Couples Referral Question

Title	# of assignments
*Based on Referral Question*
Arguing and Fighting consists of description, positive reframing, and prescription of 7 different aspects of abusive behavior. *Spanish Translation Available*	10+
Couple Difficulties This workbook was developed from the work of Keith Stanford (2003) in joint collaboration with L'Abate.	10+
Depression in Couples teaches them to become aware of how defeating depression develops from past families patterns that produce deadly triangles.	8
Intimacy teaches couples to see the good, forgive, and share joys, hurts, and fears of being hurt, qualities that are the essence of love.	6
Marital Complaints Based on the work of J. Coyne et al 2001.	3+
Marital Violence, teaches partners to control their violence through cognitive processing of their actions. It can be used complementarily with the Partner Violence workbook.	3+
Negotiation helps couples and families learn how to negotiate, problem-solve, and even bargain together.	9
Partner Violence teaches partners to control their violence and learn to express their feelings in more helpful ways.	3+
Premarital Preparation helps partners clarify the reasons for their wanting to get married.	3+
Sex helps partners improve their skills in sexual performance and presence.	3
Stand Up for Yourself! teaches partners to express themselves in a more constructive fashion than they have done heretofore.	5

*Based on Psycological Test Profiles*
Improving Relationships deals with most frequent issues in committed, prolonged, and close relationships.	6
Marital Satisfaction is one of the most frequently administered inventories available commercially.	13
Problems in Relationships program includes a workbook and a 240-item computer-scored scale to pin-point major discrepancies among 20 scales of potentially conflictful areas with matching assignments for each of the 20 areas	22 + scale
Relationship Conflict covers most stressful areas of conflict, including abuse and fighting.	14

*Couple Normalization*
These three workbooks are based on the 2002 work by M. Hassebrauck & B. Fehr on dimensions of relationships quality.	-

This page last updated 10/23/2005