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The marriage checkup practitioner's guide: Promoting lifelong relationship health.

DOI: 10.1037/14321-000

Publisher: American Psychological Association - American Psychological Association

Jul 7, 2014

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

LitStream

Introduction.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 3 –8

The goal of the marriage checkup is to provide the theory, structure, and tools clinicians and counselors need to offer regular checkups for couples’ relationship health—meeting the twin goals of prevention and early detection and intervention. This book is for all professionals whose work...
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What is the marriage checkup?

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 9 –22

Although the idea of a Marriage Checkup (MC) is a simple one, the implications are potentially transformative, both for couples’ relationship health and for public health. The idea is to do for marital health what the regular dental checkup and the regular physical health checkup have done for...
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Basics of working with couples in brief intervention.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 23 –42

In this chapter in particular, I am assuming that the reader is interested in reviewing the basic issues and unique challenges involved in working with couples. The Marriage Checkup (MC) model requires that therapists work quickly with couples whom we may have just met, who represent the entire...
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Adapting therapeutic assessment, motivational interviewing, and integrative couple therapy to a marriage checkup.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 43 –72

The Marriage Checkup (MC) therapist has two simple, but not necessarily easy, goals to accomplish over the course of the checkup. The first goal is to foster intimacy, connection, mutual compassion, and greater mutual acceptance. The second goal is invite the couple to lean forward together into...
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Goals of motivational feedback.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 73 –96

In this chapter, the author goes over how to adapt Miller and Rollnick’s (2002) motivational interviewing for use with couples across the distress spectrum in an MC format. Motivational interviewing encompasses a powerful set of techniques and principles useful in helping partners tap into their...
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Conducting the marriage checkup assessment session.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 97 –125

In this chapter, I walk you through the structure of the assessment session. The assessment session is intended to accomplish two goals. The first goal is a thorough assessment of the couple’s relationship health. Following the basic physical health checkup model, the assessment session is...
LitStream

Writing the feedback report.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 127 –142

My team and I are continuing to experiment with ways to facilitate writing the feedback report that make construction of the report easier and more time efficient. We are working on an easily searchable feedback manual, as well as options for making the material available online. At the same...
LitStream

Conducting the feedback session.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 143 –157

During the assessment session, partners work with the Marriage Checkup (MC) consultant to develop a more intimacy-promoting understanding of their relationship in support of their long-term relationship health. This new, intimacy-promoting narrative focuses on strengths, compassionate...
LitStream

Menu for addressing common areas of concern.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 159 –213

In this chapter, I have collected much of the general feedback that my team and I give couples for the most common areas of concern. These paragraphs are the boilerplate feedback we begin with and tailor to the particulars of each couple. Each section describes the general area of concern and...
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Menu for presenting couples' strengths.

Cordova, James V.

Pages: 215 –227

In this chapter, I present the most common strengths that couples describe, information about those strengths digested from the research and clinical literature, and examples of how my team and I present those strengths to couples in the Marriage Checkup (MC) feedback report. The goal in this...

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