ABSTRACT

Integrative Couple Therapy in Action offers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to handling the most common problems and crisis situations seen by couple therapists.

Drawing on the latest literature and the author’s experience of over 40 years, Nielsen investigates what makes certain issues, such as sex, or situations, such as extramarital affairs, so stressful for clients and challenging for therapists. Unlike most graduate programs and texts on couple therapy that focus on theory and technique, Integrated Couple Therapy in Action fills in the details. The chapters cover common presenting problems (sex, money, children, and the stresses of time, work, and simply living together) and then discuss catastrophic crisis situations (couples reeling from affairs, contemplating divorce, divorcing, or living in stepfamilies after divorcing).

Integrative Couple Therapy in Action provides one-stop shopping for readers of all skill levels interested in understanding the subject matter that bedevils so many couples.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|30 pages

Synopsis of Integrative Couple Therapy

chapter 1|3 pages

Couple Therapy 1.0

chapter 2|4 pages

The First Upgrade

Focus on the Interpersonal Process

chapter 3|3 pages

Psychodynamic Upgrades

chapter 4|3 pages

Behavioral/Psychoeducational Upgrades

chapter 5|12 pages

Sequencing Interventions

chapter 6|3 pages

The Intimidator and the Novelist

An Illustration of the Integrative Model1

chapter |1 pages

Introduction to Parts II and III

Domain-Specific Knowledge

part II|89 pages

Upgrades to Address Common Problems

chapter 7|32 pages

Sex

chapter 8|24 pages

Children and Extended Family

chapter 9|13 pages

Money

part III|124 pages

Upgrades to Address Common Stressful Situations

chapter 12|44 pages

Extramarital Affairs

chapter 13|14 pages

Couples Contemplating Divorce

chapter 14|34 pages

Divorcing Couples

chapter 15|30 pages

Stepfamily Couples

chapter |4 pages

Concluding Remarks