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Looking for ways to work more effectively with couples?
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Recreating Partnership:
A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy by Phillip Ziegler and Tobey Hiller
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Traditional approaches to couples therapy are often based on particular
theories about what causes relationship discord and normative models of a “healthy” relationship. These
approaches work fine so long as both partners accept the therapist’s theories and are willing to follow the therapist’s
suggestions. All too often, however, couples don’t fit neatly into the
therapist’s plans--and in such cases, the therapist concludes that, for one reason or another, the couple was unsuited
for couples therapy. In fact, numerous research studies and meta-analyses conducted over the past 40 years, reveal that,
regardless of model or technique, only about 1/3rd and 1/2 of couples report significant positive changes
at termination. And, within 6 months half the successful couples have relapsed.
Recreating Partnership Couples Therapy™ is
different! Rather than being based on a theory of what makes
relationships work, it is based on what numerous research studies conducted over the past 40 years tell
us makes couples therapy work.
While RPCT draws ideas and techniques from solution-focused,
narrative and other constructionist therapies, it is, above all, a collaborative and strength-based approach -- every
therapeutic enterprise with each couple is custom-tailored to their unique needs, concerns, desires and strengths and
resources.
Recreating Parnership is filled with vivid, often moving, case transcripts clearly
showing how these two highly experienced and sensitive clinicians handle many of the common challenges encountered in working
with couples.
For more information about our book, our work, a schedule of up-coming training programs
or a copy of the Introduction to the book, please email us by clicking on the email address at the bottom of this webpage.
***INTERESTED IN EARNING 12 C.E.U. CREDITS FOR READING RECREATING PARTNERSHIP?
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ADVANCE ACCLAIM FOR RECREATING PARTNERSHIP:
Recreating Partnership provides therapists with a wealth of practical suggestions for helping couples. The
authors, Ziegler and Hiller,. . . have created a highly readable and timely volume that builds bridges between the various
constructionist approaches and will be of benefit to clinicians and couples alike. -- SCOTT D. MILLER, PhD., Co-founder, Institute
for the Study of Therapeutic Change; co-author of Escape from Babel, Working with "Impossible Cases," and The Heroic Client.
The authors of this beautifully written book give invaluable insights into what couples need to turn their
relationship around during therapy....This is one of the clearest and most creative books I have ever read on couple therapy!
-- PEPPER SCHWARTZ, PhD., Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, author of Love Between Equals and
co-author of American Couples
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Ziegler and Hiller have provided us with a great resource for helping couples recreate the kind of stories
that produce happy and vibrant relationships. Their model is bright and readily applicable, integrating a wide variety of
collaborative and competency-based ideas and techniques; the case illustrations are specific and enlightening. Recreating
Partnership is valuable and well-written, a book that should be on the shelf of everyone who works with couples. I recommend
it highly! --MICHAEL HOYT, PhD.,author of Some Stories are Better than Others; editor of The Handbook of Constructive
Therapies and Constructive Therapies, Vol. 1 and 2.
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