Focuses on two major themes: the imporvement of teaching practice through collaborative research, and reflection on the process of collaboration itself to understand its role in educational change.

All couples go through challenging times: some survive and thrive, others don't. How can we understand and use this distinction in the practical application of therapy? In their solution-oriented, competency-based approach to couples therapy, Phillip Ziegler and Tobey Hiller answer this question. In Recreating Partnership, an innovative, theoretically sound, and practical handbook for clinicians, Ziegler and Hiller present a bold and clinically useful concept, the good story/bad story dichotomy. The book shows clinicians how to use this narrative concept in conducting effective and efficient relationship therapy that will help couples build solutions collaboratively, invigorate partnership, and thrive, each in their own unique ways. The book covers issues such as establishing rapport with antagonistic partners; developing therapeutic goals; hosting conversations that reinvigorate the couple's good story; how, when, and whether to offer task assignments; addressing issues such as domestic violence; and how to bring therapy to a close, as well as many cogent and helpful transcripts. Written for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and anyone who works with couples, Recreating Partnership will be exciting and useful to both the novice and experienced practitioner.

This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences. Large numbers of adults with histories of childhood trauma and neglect suffer persistent relationship and sexual difficulties. Unfortunately, most have failed to receive adequate help with emerging from these deep and complex problems. Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect explores the enduring impacts—physiological, psychological, and behavioral—of childhood trauma and neglect. Author Ruth Cohn, drawing on 25 years of experience working with trauma survivors and their partners and families, lays out a practical and actionable course for recovery in clear, accessible language. This book provides direction and hope to those with trauma backgrounds while also serving as a unique resource for professional readers. Integrating in-depth information on attachment and relationship, trauma and neglect, and sexuality, Cohn details a practical, hands-on treatment approach for revitalizing love, health, and passion.

ReCreate Your Love is a guide that takes you through foundational steps to create your true love. It provides you with tools and strategies to identify your understanding of love and relationships, what is not working for you, and gives you the space to create your version of love that does work for you. Throughout this book, Kari shares parts of her love journey, heartaches, and pain she experienced, this has allowed her to understand the different dynamics of love and relationships on a higher level. Through childhood experiences, overcoming the challenges of a divorce, infidelity, her second marriage almost coming to an end, and family struggles; have all driven her passion to write this book and help people restore love. Her hope is to help others stop the cycles of love hurt and help people learn to live a life full of healthy, true love. We are all raised learning a version of love that our caregivers were taught or understood. Since this is not always a healthy one, let's recreate your love. Each section of this book shares a story or an experience. It allows you to process your own experiences, write out your thoughts, change bad love habits, practice gratitude, and create new positive love habits. Originally, this book was written to help restore and rebuild marriages, it turned into a journey of restoring oneself first. Digging deep into your inner most being and learning about you, your desires, your beliefs, keeping what serves you, and letting go of what no longer serves you is key. When you let go of the stuff that takes up space in your mind, heart, and world, you make room for what really matters, true love and healthy relationships.

ng approach to marriage. Sandra Bender believes that every marriage, like its partners, is in a state of continuous change, yet most fail to take control of that change. "Recreating Marriage with the Same Old Spouse" educates couples in the skills of being married and gives examples, discussion questions, and practice exercises.

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again.

There is scarcely a person alive who doesn't struggle with their love relationship. Love Recreated-A Tale of Relationship Success, is an original story about a couple whose love is in trouble. Their healing experience sheds light on what really stands in the way og etting all the love we all want.Love Recreated purposely avoids the obvious. There are enough books on fair fughting and good communication. Love Recreated looks behind the usual guidelines to examine the underlying emotional issues that stand in the way of greater intimacy. Written with guidance, wisdom and compassion, it is more than just another how to book, it is a must read book. It is the little book with the power to heal a wounded love in a big way.About The AuthorJoel Block, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist practicing couple, family, and individual psychotherapy on Long Island, New York. A Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Dr. Block is a supervisor of staff of a Sex/Couple Center at a major New York hospital and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Einstein College of Medicine. He is author of numerous magazine articles and 11 books. He has appeared on numerous national and local TV and radio shows, and is frequently interviewed in print. His expertise includes all aspects of relationships and sexuality.

Trauma has been defined as an interruption of an affiliative or relationship bond. If left unsettled, past grief and psychological trauma can continue to impact our adult relationships and cause us pain in our entire lives. It's possible we may not even realize what is happening to us because usually relationships fail in parts rather than in total. Early childhood losses or traumas can create pain that is relived in adult intimate relationships. Intimacy can provide both an arena for re-enacting old pain and/or healing it. In this fascinating work, noted psychodramatist Tian Dayton shows readers how relationships can be used as a vehicle for healing, personal growth and spiritual transformation. Through fascinating case studies and probing exercises, Dayton helps readers get in touch with the deepest parts of themselves and heal the wounds that plague them.