If Only I Had Known...
Avoiding Common Mistakes in Couples Therapy
14 October 2005
Description
Creating tactics for getting it right the first time.
The co-authors draw on over thirty years of experience to show young therapists how and how not to conduct psychotherapy. Each chapter begins with a vignette illustrating a common mistake, then describes the error in detail, explains why therapists make the mistake and offers tactics for avoiding it.
Reviews
"Good handbook for psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, as well as psychiatry residents and psychiatric nurse practitioners." — Amy Ellwood, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education
"An interesting, reasonably priced, and valuable text for therapists who deal with couples in clinical practice…Surprisingly sophisticated yet readable." — Jerrold Lee Shapiro, PsycCritiques
"This book is one that every young therapist should read…authors have crisply...addressed common problems that all therapists will see…" — John D. Lentz, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter
Also By: Gerald R. Weeks 
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