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Clinical Guide to Helping New Parents: The Couple CARE for Parents Program by Debra Creedy, Jemima Petch, W. Kim Halford (Paperback, 2015)

This accessible guide details an evidence-based educational program to help couples adapt to parenthood while minimizing the inevitable stress on the relationship. Complete with content, rationales, activities, and client materials, its flexible format allows for home and office visits and phone/online support across the transition, starting during pregnancy and continuing into early infancy. Activities build on themes of caring, change, and cooperation as couples learn to identify and address sources of conflict, solve infant-care problems, and to become optimal partners as well as optimal parents. The book's hands-on presentation includes chapter highlights, boxed Practice Tips and Clinical Connections sections, client handouts and worksheets, and examples of clinician interactions with couples. The sessions described in Clinical Guide to Helping New Parents: The Couple CARE for Parents Program are organized to meet challenges and reinforce skills in key areas including: Developing realistic and shared expectations. Promoting positive communications and self-change. Conflict management communication skills. Developing sensitive and responsive parenting Reviewing personal and social support. Developing caring and healthy sexuality. Anticipating and preventing relationship deterioration.

Subject Area
Social Work, Children & Family, Clinical Psychology
Author
Debra Creedy, Jemima Petch, w. Kim Halford
Publication Name
Clinical Guide to Helping New Parents: the Couple Care for Parents Program
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
170 Pages

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