Description
Close relationships and mental health are two key ingredients to living a meaningful, fulfilled life. These two domains are the central focus of Treating Relationship Distress and Psychopathology in Couples: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach. As expert clinicians, trainers, and researchers in the field of cognitive-behavioural couple therapy and couple-based interventions for psychopathology, the authors offer a highly accessible volume for experienced clinicians and trainees alike.
This book details the most recent innovations in CBCT, a principle-based, flexible treatment approach for couples with a wide range of relationship concerns, circumstances, and stages of life. Based on a clear conceptual framework, readers learn how to address individual and couple functioning in an integrated, comprehensive manner and how to apply principle-based interventions that directly flow from this framework.
Treating Relationship Distress and Psychopathology in Couples was written by a team of five authors, born in four different countries and working together as a team for a number of years, providing a cohesive framework based on work in a variety of contexts. While staying close to research findings that inform treatment, they provide a text for clinicians at all levels of training and experience in working with couples.
Table of Contents
Part I: An Introduction and Overview of Cognitive-Behavioural Couple Therapy 01. Introduction 02. A Cognitive-Behavioural Model for Understanding Relationship Functioning and Individual Well-Being 03. Conducting Cognitive-Behavioural Couple Therapy Part II: Working with the "Fundamentals" of CBCT—Behaviours, Cognitions, and Emotions 04. Behavioural Factors and Communication 05. Cognitive Factors 06. Emotional Factors Part III: The Contextual Framework of CBCT: Attending to the Individual, Couple, and Environment 07. The Individual 08. The Couple 09. The Environment Part IV: Addressing Psychopathology in a Relationship Context 10. Treating Psychopathology with Couple-Based Interventions 11. Depression in Couples 12. Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD in Couples 13. Other Disorders in Couples Part V: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment Planning to Address Relationship Distress and Psychopathology—Pulling it all Together 14. Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment Planning 15. Concluding Comments
References Appendices Index
