Mind Over Money: Overcoming the Money Disorders that Threaten Our Financial Health
“A lifeline for anyone who thinks of money as a way to secure happiness, love, or define their self-worth… I now control my money, my money no longer controls me.” -Wynonna Judd
Whether you want to learn more about how to make better financial decisions, have more open communication with your loved ones or simply be better equipped to deal with the challenges of these tough economic times, this book will help you improve your relationship with money and live a healthier financial life.
Relationship Toolkit: Negotiating Your Way to a Successful Relationship
Establishing and maintaining intimate relationships is one of the most challenging endeavors we face as human beings. Doing so requires specific relationship knowledge and skills. Unfortunately, these essential tools are not taught in school, and for many of us, are not effectively modeled throughout our development. In Relationship Toolkit: Negotiating Your Way to a Successful Relationship, Drs. Ted & Brad Klontz get to the heart of what is needed to create and maintain lasting intimacy. Relationship Toolkit: Negotiating Your Way to a Successful Relationship provides a critical framework for understanding the important elements in relationships and explores specific tools that facilitate the establishment of emotionally safe, fulfilling and lasting relationships.
Relationship Toolkit 2: The Ten Commandments for Extraordinary Relationships
Unfortunately, relationships don't come with instruction manuals. But they should! In their second course in the Relationship Toolkit educational series, Drs. Ted & Brad Klontz review ten relationship principles that are essential to making the most of intimate relationships. If relationships did come with an instructional manual, this would be it!
Wired for Wealth
The biggest threat to your financial health is not a recession; it's your brain. Drawing on the results of a landmark survey of people's money habits, as well as their decades of work improving their clients' financial lives, renowned financial psychologists Drs. Brad Klontz and Ted Klontz and financial planner Rick Kahler, CFP® show you how you can rewire your brain for wealth.
The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money
Ebenezer Scrooge would seem an unlikely source from which to glean financial wisdom. However, Dickens' classic tale of how Scrooge left behind his miserly ways and transformed into a joyful, compassionate and generous man is a powerful model we all can benefit from today.
Facilitating Financial Health: Tools for Financial Planners, Coaches, and Therapists
This book is an essential resource for financial professionals. It provides cutting-edge tools to help clients transform money from a major source of stress to a valued resource for building more satisfying lives.
These tools of Facilitating Financial Health will enhance the work of financial planners, investment advisors, debt/credit counselors, money managers, coaches, and psychotherapists. The techniques are valuable for those trained in the “exterior” aspect of finance—accounting, investments, money management, and financial planning—as well as coaches and therapists who work with the “interior” aspects of money—clients’ emotions and beliefs about money.
This break-through approach integrates the fields of therapy, coaching, and financial planning. It invites professionals from those fields to work collaboratively with clients, using a powerful combination of exterior and interior tools to help clients build financial health. Facilitating Financial Health provides effective techniques to help clients achieve, not only financial security, but more fulfilling personal and professional lives.
Peer Review Publications (authored by the Drs.)
Klontz, B.T., Bivens, A, Wada, J., Klontz, P.T., & Kahler, R. (in press) (2008). The Treatment of disordered money behaviors: Results of an open clinical trial. Psychological Services.
Klontz, B.T., Bivens, A., Leinart, D., & Klontz, P.T. (2007). The effectiveness of equine-assisted experiential therapy: Results of an open clinical trial. Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies 15, 257-267.
Kahler, R., Klontz, T., & Klontz, B.T. (2007). Helping clients change: 21st century tools from a 19th century fable. Journal of Financial Planning 20(4), 62-67.
Klontz, B.T., Garos, S., & Klontz, P.T. (2005). The effectiveness of brief multimodal experiential therapy in the treatment of sexual addiction. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention (12) 4, 275-294.
Klontz, B.T. (2004). The ethical practice of group experiential psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 41(2), 172-179.
Klontz, B.T., Wolf, E.M. & Bivens, A. (2001). The effectiveness of a multimodal brief group experiential therapy approach. The International Journal of Action Methods: Psychodrama, Skill Training, and Role Playing, 53(3-4), 199-135.
Klontz, B.T., Dayton, T., & Anderson, L.S. (1999). The use of psychodramatic techniques within solution-focused brief therapy: A theoretical and technical integration. The International Journal of Action Methods: Psychodrama, Skill Training, and Role Playing, 52(3), 113-120.
Magazine/Newsletter Articles (authored by the Drs.)
Klontz, B.T. (October 2nd 2008). Wall Street May Be Bailed-Out but You Won't Be. NewsBlaze.com. View
Kahler, R., Klontz, T., Klontz, B. (December 2007). Playing Marley's ghost. Life Insurance Selling, 36-42. View
Ted Klontz, PhD, and Brad Klontz, PsyD (Fall 2007). The Place of Money in Counseling. EAP Digest. View
Klontz, P.T., Kahler, R., & Klontz, B.T. (2004). What’s Money Got To Do With It?: The Role of Money in Counseling. Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals, (4), 23-29.
Klontz, P.T., Zugich, M.A., & Leinart, D. (2002). The Miracle of Equine Therapy. Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals (6), 22-27.
Klontz, B.T., Dayton, T., & Anderson, L.S. (1999). The Use of Psychodramatic Techniques Within Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Theoretical and Technical Integration. The International Journal of Action Methods: Psychodrama, Skill Training, and Role Playing, 52(3), 113-120.
Klontz, B.T. (1999). Talk is Cheap: The Healing Effects of Experiential Therapy and Psychodrama. Professional Counselor, 14(4), 35-38.
Newspaper Articles (authored by the Drs.)
Klontz, B.T. (November 2008). Don't always believe what you think. Kaua’i Business Report, 9. View
Klontz, B.T. (October 26th 2008). Wall Street will be bailed out, but you're on your own. Honolulu Star Bulletin. View
Klontz, B.T. (September 2008). Take Control of your Anger. Kaua’i Business Report, 15. View
Klontz, B.T. (August 2008). Achieve Greater Success with a Mentor. Kaua’i Business Report, 14. View
Klontz, B.T. (July 2008). Facing your Fears. Kaua’i Business Report, 17. View
Klontz, B.T. (June 2008). Making Changes Stick. Kaua’i Business Report, 19. View
Klontz, B.T. (May 2008). Resolving Unfinished Business. Kaua’i Business Report, 19. View
Klontz, B.T. (April 2008). Good Parenting: It's all about style. Kaua’i Business Report, 19. View
Klontz, B.T. (March 2008). Financial Infidelity: The little green lies we tell. Kaua'i Business Report, 16. View
Klontz, B.T. (February 2008). Putting off procrastination. Kaua'i Business Report, 17. View
Klontz, B.T. (January 2008). When shopping is out of control. Kaua'i Business Report, 17. View
Klontz, B.T. (December 2007). When holidays aren't so happy. Kaua'i Business report, 10. View
Klontz, B.T. (November 2007). Are you a workaholic?. Kaua'i Business Report, 15. View
Klontz, B.T. (October 2007). Embrace your midlife crisis. Kaua'i Business Report, 15. View
Klontz, B.T. (September 2007). Invisible wounds. Kaua'i Business Report, 14. View
Klontz, B.T. (August 2007). Staying happy at work. Kaua'i Business Report, 18. View
Klontz, B.T. (July 2007). The ten commandments for extraordinary relationships: Part II. Kaua'i Business Report, 19. View
Klontz, B.T. (June 2007). The ten commandments for extraordinary Relationships: Part I. Kaua'i Business Report, 15. View
Klontz, B.T. (May 2007). Staying safe at school and work: Knowing the warning signs of potential violence can help. Kaua'i Business Report, 16. View
Klontz, B. & Ching, J. (April 22nd 2007). Are Hawaii schools safe?: Knowing the warning signs of potential violence can help. Honolulu Star Bulletin, Insight Section, E6. View
Klontz, B.T. (April 2007). Putting insomnia to rest. Kaua'i Business Report, 16-17. View
Klontz, B.T. (March 2007). Why are men emotionally tongue-tied?. Kaua'i Business Report, 13(3), 15-16. View
Klontz, B.T. (February 21st 2007). Steps to work through guilt. Honolulu Advertiser, Island Life, pages E1 & E2. View
Klontz, B.T. (February 2007). TGIM: Thank goodness it's Monday?. Kaua'i Business Report, 13(2), 10. View
Klontz, B.T. (January 2007). Seven steps to getting what you want in 07. Kaua'i Business Report, 13(1), 19. View
Klontz, B.T. (December 9th 2006). Know why you spend and you'll spend less. Rocky Mountain News, Business Section, 2C. View
Klontz, B.T. (December 2006). How to avoid the holiday hangover. Kaua'i Business Report, 12(12), 10. View
Klontz, B.T. (November 2006). Feeling guilty? Good. Kaua'i Business Report, 12(10), 14 & 18. View
Klontz, B.T. (October 2006). What are you worth?. Kaua'i Business Report, 12(11), 19. View
Klontz, B.T. (September 2006). Emotional constipation: A recipe for depression. Kaua'i Business report, 12(9), 18. View
Klontz, B.T. (August 2006). Got stress?. Kaua'i Business Report, 12(8), 10-11. View
Contributions to Other Publications
Canfield, J., Hansen, M.V. (2005). Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications.
Field, A. (2005). "The Psychology of Money". Registered Rep. Magazine.
Weigscheider-Cruse. S. (1999). Trust the Process: Twenty years of Onsite. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc.
Weigscheider-Cruse, S. (1996). Dancing with Destiny. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications.
Weigsheider-Cruse, S., Higby, K., Klontz, P.T., & Rainey, A. (1994). Family Reconstruction: The Living Theater Model. Los Altos, CA: Science and Behavior Books.