Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples

Sandra Levy Ceren · Sandra L. Ceren, Ph.D.

Jan 2008 · Loving Healing Press

About this ebook

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

Ratings and reviews

We all know that a large percentage of American marriages end in divorce. These numbers are even higher for subsequent marriages. No one gets married planning to have it fail. However, many couples put more emphasis on planning the wedding than they do on planning the actual marriage. As a Therapist, you have a wonderful opportunity to assist couples in learning how to make the marriage work after the actual wedding ceremony and honeymoon end. Dr. Sandra Ceren has put together a remarkably easy to follow and understand counseling blueprint for couples considering marriage. Real life case studies and examples will lead the therapist through a series of ten meetings and discussions with couples. Using her ideas and proven methods, the therapist can assist couples in finding areas of probable conflict, work through them, and emerge a stronger team after counseling sessions. Dr. Ceren combines education and experence to assist couples in the "art of gracious compromise", lessons that would serve most of us in both our personal and professional relationships. The author writes frankly and honestly about the need to actually know a partner before marriage, and offers quizzes that can help your clients explore each other's personality, personal history and thought processes. I found the entire book well written, excellently presented and very well organized. It's obvious Dr. Ceren has put much work into this guide. I firmly believe that any therapist hoping to include marital/premarital counseling in their practice should keep a copy of this book close by........it will be referred to again and again.