The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Marital and Family Therapy Book

	Foreword
1	The aesthetics of communication	3
2	Needful things : fostering communication in couples	9
3	Altering the abyss : externalizing negative interaction cycles	13
4	Money talks	23
5	How does your garden grow?	35
6	Negotiating couple boundaries : the metaphor of gardens	43
7	The coming-clean ritual	49
8	Creating rituals for couples coping with early pregnancy loss	57
9	The four Cs of parenting	65
10	Identifying family rules	71
11	"Jump, jump, king me" : the systemic Kvebaek technique	79
12	Beginning body dialogue : an introduction to physical acting techniques in family counseling	85
13	Communicating with children : feelings game	93
14	Name your true colors : a card game for engaging families in problem-solving processes	101
15	Royal flush	107
16	Put on a happy face	115
17	Speak softly and carry a big stick	121
18	Family stress balls	127
19	Up, up, and away in my beautiful balloon	131
20	Drawing the family system	137
21	Family drawings with abused children : allowing room for expression	141
22	Chicken Little reconstructed : trauma resiliency	147
23	Parting is such sweet sorrow : the good-bye book	153
24	The pen is mightier than the sword : writing to combat adolescent silence in family therapy	165
25	Communicating with teens : movie exchange	169
26	The "puppet reflecting team" technique	177
27	"Eyes on the prize" : incorporating cultural knowledge into goal development for the African-American family with a child with serious emotional disturbance	185
28	Toward a culturally and spiritually consonant treatment of native Hawaiians : an integration of family therapy and Ho'oponopono	195
29	The healing journey : celebrating the past and envisioning the future	209
30	If you work with families, get to school! : family-based school interventions	217
31	Loss of a client to suicide : suggestions for before and after a client suicide	223