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

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

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

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2020-09-15

Length: 416 pages