Clinical Guide to Helping New Parents - The Couple CARE for Parents Program (Paperback, 2015 ed.)

This accessible guide details an evidence-based educational program to help couples adapt to parenthood while minimizing the inevitable stress on the relationship. Complete with content, rationales, activities, and client materials, its flexible format allows for home and office visits and phone/online support across the transition, starting during pregnancy and continuing into early infancy. Activities build on themes of caring, change, and cooperation as couples learn to identify and address sources of conflict, solve infant-care problems, and to become optimal partners as well as optimal parents. The book's hands-on presentation includes chapter highlights, boxed "Practice Tips" and "Clinical Connections" sections, client handouts and worksheets, and examples of clinician interactions with couples. The sessions described in Clinical Guide to Helping New Parents: The Couple CARE for Parents Program are organized to meet challenges and reinforce skills in key areas including: Developing realistic and shared expectations. Promoting positive communications and self-change. Conflict management communication skills. Developing sensitive and responsive parenting Reviewing personal and social support. Developing caring and healthy sexuality. Anticipating and preventing relationship deterioration.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Springer Series on Couples and Health
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	W.Kim Halford • Jemima Petch • Debra Creedy
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	170
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4939-1612-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	1-4939-1612-2
Barcode:	9781493916122

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