Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book is truly a treasure chest of useful strategies collected and developed by John Carpenter for over 20 years. Practical, creative, playful, indirect, and memorable—these useful, easy-to-implement approaches will help the professional who deals with any type of relationship issue bring about effective results in a short time. The author offers exercises that allow those in relationships to clearly understand each other's perspective through imagery, metaphors, or visual displays with symbolic props. Social workers, counselors, psychologists, psychotherapists, clergy, school counselors, addiction counselors, nurses, case managers and mental health professionals will enjoy these hands-on techniques for clear assessment and treatment of relationship difficulties.