Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Transforming Relationships

Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Transforming Relationships

Andrew Christensen, Neil S. Jacobson
$29.95
Publication Date: July 13th, 1998
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393702903
Pages:
336

Description

An ideal text for all students of marital dynamics.

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.

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.

Praise for Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Transforming Relationships

I recommend this book to any student, teacher, scholar, or practitioner involved with the fascinating world of couple therapy. You will not be disappointed.
— Contemporary Psychology

Jacobson and Christensen offer an excellent book for couple therapists or trainees who espouse a variety of approaches to treatment. The developments detailed in this book depict one of the premier examples of the integration of research, theory, and practice in the field of couple therapy.
— Gary Bischof - Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy

The book is clearly written, accessible to beginning therapists, and useful to experienced ones. Definitely worth a look.
— Ellen Berman - Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

Jacobson and Christensen have successfully expanded upon behavioral family therapy, retaining its systematic clarity yet adding with clinical dexterity the integrative concepts of emotional acceptance and strategic change. The result is extraordinary--therapy that is deft, focused, flexible, yet researchable. Family clinicians of all stripes can learn much from this book, simplifying the therapeutic task for some and opening it for others.
— Lyman Wynne, M.D., Ph.D.

[This] is a breakthrough book. Jacobson and Christensen have done more than build another therapeutic model; they have offered us an irresistible new direction-one that can really save marriages. The authors are creative, cautious when they need to be, but bold in conceptualization and in detail. . . . I expect that this approach will revolutionize the way many marriage and family professionals treat their clients.
— Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., author of Peer Marriage