Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Creating Acceptance and Change, Second Edition

Andrew Christensen · Brian D. Doss · Neil S. Jacobson

Feb 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Mike Lenz

About this audiobook

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, listeners learn about innovations to the IBCT approach in the twenty-plus 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

Andrew Christensen is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at UCLA. He is the codeveloper of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), a treatment adopted by the US Department of Veterans Affairs as one of their evidence-based interventions and adapted into the online program for couples.

Mike Lenz has been an audiobook narrator and voice actor for more than fourteen years. Having narrated titles in genres ranging from fiction, entertainment, science, and children's literature to Christian, business, self-help, and history, Mike loves bringing nonfiction and fiction stories to life.