ABSTRACT

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.

part I|45 pages

An introduction and overview of cognitive-behavioural couple therapy

part II|75 pages

Working with the “fundamentals” of CBCT—behaviours, cognitions, and emotions

chapter 4|29 pages

Behavioural factors and communication

chapter 5|21 pages

Cognitive factors

chapter 6|23 pages

Emotional factors

part III|46 pages

The contextual framework of CBCT—attending to the individual, couple, and environment

chapter 7|13 pages

The individual

chapter 8|17 pages

The couple

chapter 9|14 pages

The environment

part IV|79 pages

Addressing psychopathology in a relationship context

chapter 11|21 pages

Depression in couples

chapter 12|17 pages

Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD in couples

chapter 13|22 pages

Other disorders in couples

part V|34 pages

Assessment, case conceptualization, and treatment planning to address relationship distress and psychopathology—pulling it all together

chapter 15|4 pages

Concluding comments