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Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work
Written by Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning and Kim Paleg
Narrated by Susan Marlowe
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Love takes work, but, when it comes to relationships, it pays to work smarter. Couple Skills, Second Edition, revised and updated from the therapist-recommended classic, will show you how to work smarter in your relationship. You'll learn to improve communication, cope better with problems, and resolve conflicts with the one you love in healthy and creative ways. Each chapter teaches you an essential skill that supports greater relationship satisfaction and deeper intimacy.
New to this edition is a chapter on using acceptance skills, developed from the revolutionary new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These new approaches will help you to accept your partner's feelings (and your own emotions) without judgment. Using these techniques will help you decide what you really value in your relationship and then commit to acting in ways that further those values every day.
Author
Matthew McKay
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, professor of psychology at the Wright Institute, cofounder of Haight Ashbury Psychological Services, founder of the Berkeley CBT Clinic, and cofounder of the Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinic, which serves low-income clients. He has authored and coauthored more than 40 books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook and Seeking Jordan. The publisher of New Harbinger Publications, he lives in Berkeley, California.
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Reviews for Couple Skills
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Narrator sounds like she is dead inside. Is she ok? Unfortunately couldn't get past chapter 1 because of this.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great relationship examples..made conversations more accessible and relevant. Gave you good glympses into other peoples problems and how they address them!
1 person found this helpful