ABSTRACT
This third edition of Couples in Treatment helps readers conceptualize and treat couples from multiple perspectives and with a multitude of techniques. The authors do not advocate any single approach to couple therapy and instead present basic principles and techniques with wide-ranging applicability and the power to invite change, making this the most useful text on integrative, systemic couple therapy.
Throughout the book the authors consider the individual, interactional, and intergenerational systems of any case. Gerald Weeks’ Intersystems Model, a comprehensive, integrative, and contextual meta framework, can be superimposed over existing therapy approaches. It emphasizes principles of therapy and can facilitate assessing, conceptualizing couples’ problems, and providing helpful interventions. Couple therapists are encouraged to utilize the principles in this book to enhance their therapeutic process and fit their approach to the client, rather than forcing the client to fit their theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |116 pages
Basic Principles and Processes of Couple Therapy
chapter |10 pages
Couple Therapy and the Intersystem Approach
chapter |20 pages
Assessment, Case Formulation, and Avoiding Common Mistakes
chapter |13 pages
Orienting Couples to Therapy
chapter |9 pages
Systemic Conceptualization and Treatment
chapter |13 pages
Keeping Therapy Balanced
chapter |13 pages
Moving from Content to Process
chapter |15 pages
Building and Managing Intensity
chapter |9 pages
Systemic Therapy with Individual Clients
chapter |12 pages
Common Factors of Change in Couple Therapy
part |180 pages
Basic Approaches and Techniques