If Only I Had Known...: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Couples Therapy

Methven, Susanne; Odell, Mark; Weeks, Gerald R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393704459 ISBN 13: 9780393704457

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

The co-authors draw on over thirty years of experience to show young therapists how and how not to conduct psychotherapy. Each chapter begins with a vignette illustrating a common mistake, then describes the error in detail, explains why therapists make the mistake and offers tactics for avoiding it.

Review:

Good handbook for psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, as well as psychiatry residents and psychiatric nurse practitioners.--Amy Ellwood, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.

An interesting, reasonably priced, and valuable text for therapists who deal with couples in clinical practice...Surprisingly sophisticated yet readable.--Jerrold Lee Shapiro

This book is one that every young therapist should read...authors have crisply...addressed common problems that all therapists will see...--John D. Lentz

About the Author:

Susanne Methven lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mark Odell lives in Kalispell, Montana. Gerald R. Weeks, Ph. D., ABPP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. Weeks is an Approved Supervisor and a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, as well as certified by the American Board of Sexology. He has currently completed his 16th professional textbook having published in the fields of sex, marital, and family therapy. He is coauthor of Erectile Dysfunction (Norton) and Hypoactive Sexual Desire (Norton).