The High-Conflict Couple: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy

Fruzzetti, Alan E.

ISBN 10: 1458746127 / ISBN 13: 9781458746122

Published by ReadHowYouWant, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The High-Conflict Couple: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1458746127
• ISBN 13: 9781458746122
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 couples-pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame-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.

About the Author

Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D., is associate professor of psychology and director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Research Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. He provides extensive training, supervision, and consultation for DBT treatment programs and DBT research in the United States and abroad.