What Happens in Couple Therapy: A Casebook on Effective Practice

This casebook showcases contemporary couple therapy, featuring well-known contributors and addressing various relationship challenges, including cultural divides, psychological or medical disorders, interfaith couples, military couples, and same-sex and queer couples. It includes expert editors' concise introductions and descriptions of how the approaches fit into the broader field.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 339 pages
Publication date: 06 September 2024
Publisher: Guilford Publications

Contemporary couple therapy is brought to life in this casebook, which candidly illustrates the whats, whys, and how-tos of leading clinical approaches. Well-known contributors provide a window into their work with couples seeking help for a variety of relationship challenges. Cases depict the moment-by-moment process of therapy, from the initial assessment and case formulation through the beginning, intermediate, and concluding phases. Themes addressed include working across cultural divides, helping couples living with psychological or medical disorders, and treating interfaith couples, military couples, and same-sex and queer couples. Enhancing the book's utility for course use, the expert editors concisely introduce each case and describe how the approach fits into the broader field. See also Lebow and Snyder's Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Sixth Edition, which provides an authoritative overview of theory and practice.

Weight: 622g
Dimension: 178 x 255 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781462554744