Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a unique method for uncovering positive potential within a relationship. The authors demonstrate how “We stories” – created, recovered and made anew – provide essential elements of connection.
Key Features
- Captures the couple’s sense of “We-ness” with vivid imagery.
- Highlights memorable moments of compassion, acceptance, and respect.
- Encourages a shared commitment to the “We” that builds the relationship.
- Offers practical instruction for reclaiming positive stories.
- Integrates contemporary couple experiences, including couples in conflict and LGBT partnerships.
Additional Information
Couples that can find their stories, share them with each other, and then carry them forward to family, friends, and a larger community are likely to preserve a sense of mutuality that will thrive over a lifetime of partnership. The authors weave together cutting-edge thinking and research in attachment theory, narrative therapy, neuroscience, and adult development, as well as their own research and clinical experience to present vivid case histories, step-by-step strategies, exercises, questionnaires, and interview techniques.
The authors’ unique Me (to US) Scale, a 10-item tool that assesses the degree of mutuality a couple possesses at the start of treatment, gives therapists of any theoretical orientation the ability to put this intervention to immediate use.
