Main description:

Integrative Couple Therapy in Action offers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to handling the most common problems and crisis situations seen by couple therapists.

Drawing on the latest literature and the author's over 40 years of experience, Nielsen investigates what makes certain issues, such as sex, or situations, such as extramarital affairs, so stressful for clients and challenging for therapists. Unlike most graduate programs and texts on couple therapy that focus on theory and technique, Integrated Couple Therapy in Action fills in the details. Chapters cover common presenting problems (sex, money, children, and the stresses of time, work, and simply living together) and then discuss catastrophic crisis situations (couples reeling from affairs, contemplating divorce, divorcing, or living in stepfamilies after divorcing).

Integrative Couple Therapy in Action provides one-stop shopping for readers of all skill levels interested in understanding the subject matter that bedevils so many couples.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Synopsis of Integrative Couple Therapy

1.Couple Therapy 1.0

2.The First Upgrade: Focus on the Interpersonal Process

3.Psychodynamic Upgrades

4.Behavioral/Psychoeducational Upgrades

5.Sequencing Interventions

6.The Intimidator and the Novelist: An Illustration of the Integrative Model

Introduction to Parts II and III: Domain-Specific Knowledge

Part II: Upgrades to Address Common Problems

7.Sex

8.Children and Extended Family

9.Money

10.Domestic Problems and Division-of-Labor Disputes

11.Job Stress, Cultural Pressures, and Limited Time

Part III: Upgrades to Address Common Stressful Situations

12.Extramarital Affairs

13.Couples Contemplating Divorce

14.Divorcing Couples

15.Stepfamily Couples

Concluding Remarks

References

Index