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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James V. CordovaPublisher: American Psychological Association Imprint: American Psychological Association Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9781433815522ISBN 10: 1433815524 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 15 December 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction What Is the Marriage Checkup? Basics of Working With Couples in Brief Intervention Adapting Therapeutic Assessment, Motivational Interviewing, and Integrative Couple Therapy to a Marriage Checkup Goals of Motivational Feedback Conducting the Marriage Checkup Assessment Session Writing the Feedback Report Conducting the Feedback Session Menu for Addressing Common Areas of Concern Menu for Presenting Couples' Strengths Findings and Future Directions for Marriage Checkup Research References Index About the AuthorReviewsAuthor InformationJames V. Cordova, PhD, is a professor of psychology and the director of the Center for Couples and Family Research and the Marriage Checkup Program at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Cordova is a leading figure in the field of couples research and therapy. He has been conducting research and publishing in the area of couple therapy, intimacy, and the promotion of marital health and actively training couples therapists for more than 15 years. He is the developer of the Marriage Checkup, a motivational interviewing approach to the promotion of marital health and has completed work as the principal investigator of a $1 million National Institutes of Health grant investigating the efficacy of his Marriage Checkup as the marital health equivalent of the annual physical health checkup. Dr. Cordova is currently co-investigator with Dr. Kristi Coop Gordon on a $2.3 million grant from the US Administration of Children and Families to disseminate the Marriage Checkup in primary care settings serving low-income couples. His work has been covered extensively in the popular media, including the New York Times Science section, the Washington Post, CNN, the Rachael Ray Show, and Good Morning America. He received his doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied with leading couples researchers Neil Jacobson and John Gottman. He conducted the first empirical study of integrative couple therapy with Neil Jacobson and Andrew Christensen in 10998. He is the author of a self-help book based on his research, The Marriage Checkup: A Scientific Program for Sustaining and Strengthening Marital Health. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |