Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
A Therapist's Guide to Creating Acceptance and Change, Second Edition
Author: Andrew Christensen, Neil S. Jacobson and Brian D. Doss
The definitive therapist manual for Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy (IBCT)—one of the most empirically supported approaches to couple therapy.
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The definitive therapist manual for Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy (IBCT)—one of the most empirically supported approaches to couple therapy.
Description
Andrew Christensen, codeveloper (along with the late Neil Jacobson) of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, and Brian Doss provide an essential manual for their evidence-based practice.
The authors offer guidance on formulation, assessment, and feedback of couples' distress from an IBCT perspective. They also detail techniques to achieve acceptance and deliberate change. In this updated edition of the work, readers learn about innovations to the IBCT approach in the 20+ years since the publication of the original edition—including refinements of core therapeutic techniques. Additionally, this edition provides new guidance on working with diverse couples, complex clinical issues, and integrating technology into a course of treatment.
Critic Reviews
“"This book is essential reading for anyone participating in couple therapy. Powerful case examples bring underlying principles to life. Reading session accounts is like being in the therapy room, watching these experts in action. Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy challenges traditional ideas about couple therapy through integration with online programs, such as OurRelationship.com. In addition, it expands IBCT's applicability to diverse couples and high-stakes issues, including infidelity and violence. This book offers enormous wisdom for both seasoned and new couple therapists."”
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy is a book every therapist and student training to be a therapist needs to read...The IBCT approach to helping partners improve their relationships and lives is based on over 40 years of research and clinical practice...Partners will want to read this book to discover skills and principles that will help them as they put what they learn into practice. Your work with people struggling with relationship issues will be forever changed when you read this book.--Howard J. Markman, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Denver, author of Fighting FOR Your Marriage
This book is essential reading for anyone participating in couple therapy. Powerful case examples bring underlying principles to life...Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy challenges traditional ideas about couple therapy through integration with online programs, such as OurRelationship.com. In addition, it expands IBCT's applicability to diverse couples and high-stakes issues, including infidelity and violence. This book offers enormous wisdom for both seasoned and new couple therapists.--Gayla Margolin, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
About the Author
Andrew Christensen is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at UCLA. With the late Neil Jacobson, he developed and researched Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), a treatment adopted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as one of their evidence-based interventions and adapted into the online program for couples, OurRelationship.com. Brian D. Doss is Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami. He led the development of the online OurRelationship program for couples and demonstrated its effectiveness for thousands of couples nationwide. More recently he has explored the integration of the online program with in-person IBCT. Neil S. Jacobson, formerly Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, was widely recognized as a consummate scientist-practitioner and as one of the leading experts in the theory and practice of behavior therapy.
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