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The definitive therapist manual for Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)—one of the most empirically supported approaches to couple therapy.

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.

About the Author

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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.

Praise For…

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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 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

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

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