Download or read book Action Modality Couples Therapy written by Joyce Ann Hayden-Seman and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action modality couples therapy addresses the question of what to do in a couples session. Dr. Joyce Hayden-Seman takes psychodramatic techniques that have long been used successfully in group therapy and shows how to apply them to helping troubled relationships. Among the tools provided by action modality therapy are role diagrams, which offer therapists a simple concrete means of identifying and resolving relationship blocks; assessment tools, which allow the charting of progress throughout the treatment process; and self-supervision tools, offering the clinician a way of both managing progress inhibiting countertransference and building new treatment skills. Clinical vignettes, as well as detailed session transcripts, make this interesting reading for any therapist searching for a new approach to couples therapy.