Following the successful Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling, Jennifer Ripley and Everett Worthington Jr. have written a new book that expands upon their previous theoretical approach while describing in detail new practical interventions for couple counseling and enrichment.Weaving together classic cases outlined in Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling and over 75 brand new practical interventions, Ripley and Worthington root their practical examples in an even deeper theoreticalframework and research in attachment and intimate bonds. Written with the couple counselor in mind, this book occupies a rare niche that is accessible not only to therapists and counselors but also to pastors and married couples alike. Both licensedclinical psychologists and experienced counselors, the authors base this follow-up work on the pillars of their Hope-Focused Couples Approach. The assessment tools included help facilitate improved marriages in many settings, and the combination of theory and real-life case studies easily integrates into the practices of professional counselors and researchers as well as into the lives of couples.Instructor Resources for classroom use include activities, video demonstrations of the authors in couples therapy, audio lectures, testbank, chapter summaries and a sample syllabus.

Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.



Jennifer S. Ripley (PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University) is professor of psychology, shares the Hughes Professor of Christian Thought and Mental Health, and codirects the Charis Institute at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She isa licensed clinical psychologist and coauthor of Couple Therapy: A New Hope-Focused Approach.







Everett L. Worthington Jr. (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and former executive director of the Templeton Foundation's A Campaign for Forgiveness Research. Worthington has studied forgiveness since the 1980s and has published more than two hundred articles and papers on forgiveness, marriage and family, psychotherapy and virtue in a wide variety of journals and magazines. He was the founding editor of Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal and sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN and The 700 Club and been featured in award-winning documentary movies on forgiveness such as The Power of Forgiveness and The Big Question. He is the author of seventeen books including Handbook of Forgiveness, Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling and Forgiving and Reconciling.



Why You Need This Book



Part I: A Theory of Change

1. Wanted: A Wise and Humble Counselor

2. A Sensible, Tested, and Effective Approach to Helping Couples

3. Make Therapy a Positive Growth Experience forCouples

4. Addressing the Couple?s Context



Part II: Beginning Counseling

5. Pre-counseling Interventions

6. The Intake

7. After the Intake



Part III: Case Studies in Treatment Planning

8. The Wounded but Hopeful Couple

9. The Cool Virtues Couple

10. The Enrichment Couple

11. The "Should We Marry?" Couple

12. The Complicating Factor Couple

13. The Couple with a Psychological Disorder

14. The High Conflict Couple

15. The "Accept the Things I Cannot Change" Couple

16. The Kitchen Sink Couple



Part IV: Interventions within the Sessions

17. Session Management in the Hope-focused Couples Approach to Counseling

18. HOPE Interventions (Handling Our Problems Effectively)

19. BOND with Me: Bind Our Nurturing Devotion

20. Addressing Hurts in Relationships

21. Forgiving and Reconciling through Experiencing Empathy (FREE)

22. Reconciliation and Rebuilding Trust with Couples



Part V: Conquering the Difficulties You?ll Face

23. Assessing Change throughout Treatment

24. Resistance and Roadblocks

25. Counselors? Negative Reactions to Couples

26. Working with Partners Who Have a Trauma History

27. Pornography Use and Internet Sexuality



Part VI: Concluding Treatment Using the Hope-Focused Couples Approach

28. Termination

29. Post-Counseling Check ups

30. It Works, But Is It True?