Couple Therapy ― Theory and Effective Practice

This new edition of Couples Therapy tackles four challenges currently facing the field: (1) accountability and the increasing demands for demonstrating effectiveness as a condition for reimbursement, (2) the need for practitioners to reconfigure their practice patterns in an ever-involving health-care system, (3) training mental health practitioners who have not completed marital and family therapy (MFT) programs, and (4) integrating new couples approaches and interventions into everyday clinical practice.

The book offers a focused vision and successful strategies for working effectively with couples, both today and tomorrow. It incorporates the best insights from the neurosciences as well as new couples theories, research, and evidence-based interventions, introducing approaches including psychoanalytic, systemic, cognitive behavioral, Adlerian, constructivist, third wave, integrative, and mindfulness-based. Chapters also present practical applications and professional considerations, with a comprehensive look at how to work with diverse issues in couples therapy, such as substance abuse, domestic violence, sexual dysfunction, infidelity, aging, and much more.

This third edition of Couples Therapy is an essential resource for students as well as mental health practitioners, social workers, and family counselors who are keen to better meet the needs of couples and the demands of the changing healthcare landscape.

Len Sperry, MD, PhD, is Professor at Florida Atlantic University, AAMFT Clinical Fellow, Editor at American Journal of Family Therapy, and author of Recovery of Intimacy in Love Relationships, Family Assessment, Family Therapy Techniques, The Intimate Couple, and The Disordered Couple.

Paul R. Peluso, PhD, is Professor and Chair at Florida Atlantic University, Past-President of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counseling, author of A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity, coauthor of Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy, and Series Editor of Family Systems Counseling: Innovations Then and Now.