Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Transforming Relationships / Edition 1

by Andrew Christensen, Neil S. Jacobson

Overview

An ideal text for all students of marital dynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393702903
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1998
Series:	If You Were Mine
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.16(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Andrew Christensen lives in Los Angeles.

Neil S. Jacobson, was widely recognized as a consummate scientist-practitioner and as one of the leading experts in the theory and practice of behavior therapy.

Editorial Reviews

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

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 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 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

[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

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