Helping Couples Change

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Long before it became fashionable for therapists to actually spell out in detail what they do in therapy, as in today's many treatment manuals, Dick Stuart wrote one of the first groundbreaking couple therapy books that accomplished just that. In 1980, Helping Couples Change seemed destined to become a true 'classic.' Now, over two decades later, it has most emphatically achieved that status.--Alan S. Gurman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School
- This is an excellent volume, comprehensive, insightful, well written. ...Perhaps we may call it historic, a landmark contribution to the study of changing human relationships. --The Behavior Therapist, 11/21/2003?? Since Stuart is the founding father of behavioral marital therapy, there was a great deal of anticipation among marital researchers and clinicians regarding [this] book....It is full of wisdom, scholarly knowledge, clinical sensitivity and a pervasive respect for both marriage and the marital therapy enterprise....Stuart is both a master clinician and a scholar, and one cannot help but be enriched by the knowledge and experience contained in this volume. --The American Journal of Family Therapy, 11/21/2003?? Graduate students as well as practicing professionals will find this book extremely helpful in its careful discussion of theory and technique. --Journal of Psychology and Theology, 11/21/2003