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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.

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Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy is the premier couple therapy for addressing the central concepts of acceptance and behavior change in intimate relationships. Developed by internationally recognized leaders in the couple therapy field, IBCT is easy for therapists to learn, is well-received by couples, and has strong empirical support. This book includes the latest thinking regarding acceptance and behavior change strategies, along with innovative applications of the treatment to diverse populations and specific complex problems. This volume will be a classic.--Donald H. Baucom, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Treating Relationship Distress and Psychopathology in Couples In 2008, the search began to select an intervention to promote VA health-care when Congress mandated those eligible for the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services have access to couple counselling. Selection criteria included strong empirical support, appeal to clinicians trained in either cognitive-behavioral or acceptance-based approaches, manualization, and developers who were enthused about collaborating with the VA. Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) fit the bill, and thousands of veterans have now participated in the intervention, to great effect. The text here updates and expands IBCT in an accessible, engaging format replete with clinical wisdom and practical guidance.--Shirley M. Glynn, PhD, Research Psychologist, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy is a book every therapist and student training to be a therapist needs to read. This book tells the story of one of the most important innovations in the therapy field the last few decades, and not just in the couples therapy field. The IBCT approach to helping partners improve their relationships and lives is based on over 40 years of research and clinical practice. The lead author is one of the most esteemed psychologists on the planet, whose work is widely respected and has had a positive impact on countless therapists and couples. The second author is one of the best and brightest young psychologists in the couples field, who is destined to continue to make outstanding contributions. The third author, who sadly passed away too young, is still seen as one of the most important contributors to clinical and family psychology, and his work lives on in this book. 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

In 2008, the search began to select an intervention to promote VA health-care when Congress mandated those eligible for the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services have access to couple counselling...Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) fit the bill, and thousands of veterans have now participated in the intervention, to great effect. The text here updates and expands IBCT in an accessible, engaging format replete with clinical wisdom and practical guidance.--Shirley M. Glynn, PhD, Research Psychologist, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA 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 Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy is the premier couple therapy for addressing the central concepts of acceptance and behavior change in intimate relationships. Developed by internationally recognized leaders in the couple therapy field, IBCT is easy for therapists to learn, is well-received by couples, and has strong empirical support. This book includes the latest thinking regarding acceptance and behavior change strategies, along with innovative applications of the treatment to diverse populations and specific complex problems. This volume will be a classic.--Donald H. Baucom, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Treating Relationship Distress and Psychopathology in Couples

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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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