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Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples | 
 enlarge | Author: Sandra L. Ceren
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 148
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1932690662
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9781932690668
ASIN: 1932690662
Publication Date: June 25, 2008
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b>Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples Introspective quizzes expose more of couples inner lives and past history to each other Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens. Couples will discover and have the opportunity to change bad habits which threaten the viability of the relationship.
Therapists Acclaim for Essentials of Pre-Marital Counseling
"An invaluable ten-week program of specific steps to evaluate a relationship, detect warning signs and avoid disastrous pitfalls before committing to marriage."
--Holly A. Hunt, PhD, author of Essentials of Private Practice
"What I find most rewarding about this book is what Dr. Ceren refers to as 'The art of gracious compromise'-or what may be called-how to get along in your relationship. Therapists take heed, this book is for you and your clients! You will benefit greatly."
--Michael J. Salamon, Ph.D., FICPP, Senior Psychologist/Director, Adult Developmental Center, Author of The Shidduch Crisis
"A remarkable roadmap to a healthy relationship and insight into self, written by a therapist who combines experience and skill in improving the lives of others."
--Rosalee G. Weiss, PhD Diplomate, American Board of Psychological Specialties Learn more about the author at www.DrSandraLevyCeren.com
Book #7 in the New Horizons in Therapy Series
from Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com
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A Wonderful Guide to Premarital Counseing! September 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Enchanted Self: A Positive Therapy (New Directions in Therapeutic Intervention , Vol 1)This book is a win-win for everyone. The therapist is given excellent guidance so she can create a marvelous ten session program for a couple who wishes premaritial counseling and the couple can benefit from the extraordinary case studies and quizes and questionnaires that make up the meat and potato's of this book. Like, my book, THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy, Dr. Ceren has made a decision that I think is invaluable. Her book can be read by both the therapist and the clients. Rather than keeping technique and wisdom a secret, she puts everything out in an easy framework so that all can benefit. In my positive psychology book, if the client reads the book and benefits from learning why I use a paradigm shift toward what is right with oursevles, rather than what is wrong, and also benefit from the case studies, all the better.
When the therapist gives a copy of Essentials of Premarital Counseling to the couple, then all benefit from the fabulous case studies and dilemmas that Dr. Ceren brings up for discussion and really getting to know yourself and your future spouse.
Here is just one of hundreds of examples: "Holly and Howard knew their approach to speding money was different when they first met and began dating. Holly was prudent....Howard paid no attention to the cost of the meal....
Their individual spending habits did not become an issue until they maried and pooled their money in to join accounts....They decided to have hree checking accounts: "His", "Hers" and "Ours." They would each place 25% of their respective income into their own personal accounts to do with as they pleased and 75% in "Ours."....
I think you begin to get the flavor of Dr. Seren's writing. It is captivating. She could have been a novelist. But what am I saying? She is! Look for her wonderful mystery novels.
In summary, this is a book for every therapist that sees couples before they have tied the knot, for the couples themselves and quite frankly a great resource book for couple therapy in general.
Essential tools and techniques August 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dr. Ceren shares her interactive quizzes, techniques, and roleplaying scenarios proven to produce results in four decades of counseling premarital couples of all ages. You can't go wrong with the right tools!
A proven successful program for premarital counseling July 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (7/08)
"Essential Premarital Counseling" is the seventh book in the New Horizons in Therapy Series published by Loving Healing Press. Dr. Sandra L. Ceren presents a complete ten session premarital program with case studies for discussion, and suggested resolutions. The program uses a proactive group approach with opportunity for extended sessions for individual counseling when needed.
The material in the book includes material for an intake interview, thought-provoking and probing self-examination questions with follow-up discussion suggestions. Dr. Ceren also provides a tool for personality testing and a relationship quiz. Conflict resolution training is an essential part of the subject matter of the program and provides instructions for the practitioner.
Role playing is another important part of the program. Challenging situations and scenarios are given to the participants based on material covered in earlier sessions. These role plays are followed up with suggested conflict resolutions and provide insight for impending warning signs in a premarital relationship.
The case studies dealing with personality disorders and doomed relationships are especially significant in building a long-term relationship resulting in marriage. I particularly appreciated the case studies with illustrated key and lasting, inflexible personality basics that form patterns not easily broken.
These personality characteristics hold back social and career performance and need to be considered in decisions of the magnitude of marriage. Ceren also noted the importance of values, goals, interests, and hobbies in a relationship. The case studies include numerous unresolved conflicts with suggested solutions.
The premarital questionnaire provided in the appendix is an exceptional tool for the couple considering marriage and for use in evaluation and counseling by the therapist. The recommended resource list is comprehensive and includes books--both fiction and non-fiction, as well as suggested cinematherapy.
This hands-on guide is an excellent program resource for clinical practitioners, marriage and family therapists, premarital counselors, and trained lay counselors. "Essential Premarital Counseling" by Dr. Sandra L. Ceren has received high acclaim from leaders in the field of premarital counseling.
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