Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Published on 30. April 2013
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978-1-4338-1277-4 (ISBN)
Description
Integrative behavioural couple therapy (IBCT) is an empirically validated approach that integrates the twin goals of acceptance and change as positive outcomes for couples in therapy. Using a variety of treatment strategies in a consistent behavioural theoretical framework, IBCT's key features include emphases on case formulation, emotional acceptance as a basis for concrete change, and evocative rather than prescriptive interventions.
IBCT is keenly focused on the emotional underpinnings of a couple's problems as the therapist offers a conceptualization of the problem from an IBCT perspective and engages in a variety of strategies to promote greater emotional acceptance as well as concrete change.
In this demonstration, Andrew Christensen works to give the couple a dyadic perspective on their problems and uses the IBCT interventions of empathic joining and unified detachment to evoke compassionate and caring responses from the couple.
IBCT is keenly focused on the emotional underpinnings of a couple's problems as the therapist offers a conceptualization of the problem from an IBCT perspective and engages in a variety of strategies to promote greater emotional acceptance as well as concrete change.
In this demonstration, Andrew Christensen works to give the couple a dyadic perspective on their problems and uses the IBCT interventions of empathic joining and unified detachment to evoke compassionate and caring responses from the couple.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4338-1277-4 (9781433812774)
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Andrew Christensen, PhD, is professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He studies couple conflict and couple therapy and has published over 150 professional articles, primarily on these topics.He is coauthor of the influential scholarly book, Close Relationships (1983, reprinted in 2002). For therapists, he authored Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide for Transforming Relationships (1998) with Neil S. Jacobson. He also completed a trade book for couples, Reconcilable Differences (2000) with Jacobson. Both describe Christensen and Jacobson's approach to couple therapy, integrative behavioural couple therapy (IBCT).