Best Selling Books by Andrew Christensen

Every couple has arguments, but what happens when recurring battles begin to feel like full-scale war? Do you retreat in hurt and angry silence, hoping that a spouse who "just doesn''t get it" will eventually see things your way? Spend the time between skirmishes gathering evidence that you''re right? Demand some immediate changes--or else? Whether due to innate personality traits or emotional vulnerabilities, there are some aspects of our behavior that are difficult to alter. But these differences do not have to get in the way of healthy, happy, and long-lasting romance. This practical guide offers new solutions for couples frustrated by continual attempts to make each other change. Aided by thought-provoking exercises and lots of real-life examples, readers will learn why they keep having the same fights again and again; how to keep small incompatibilities from causing big problems; and how true acceptance can restore health to their relationships.

The definitive therapist manual for Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)—one of the most empirically supported approaches to couple therapy. Andrew Christensen, codeveloper (along with the late Neil Jacobson) of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, and Brian Doss provide an essential manual for their evidence-based practice. The authors offer guidance on formulation, assessment, and feedback of couples’ distress from an IBCT perspective. They also detail techniques to achieve acceptance and deliberate change. In this updated edition of the work, readers learn about innovations to the IBCT approach in the 20+ years since the publication of the original edition—including refinements of core therapeutic techniques. Additionally, this edition provides new guidance on working with diverse couples, complex clinical issues, and integrating technology into a course of treatment.

When W. H. Freeman originally published this book in 1983, the scientific study of relationships was in its childhood. "Relationship science" has since become an established endeavor in psychology, sociology, and other social and behavioral science disciplines - complete with its own organizations, journals, book series, handbooks, and sourcebooks. A lengthy new introduction by Ellen Berscheid and Harold Kelley documents the evolution of the field.

Every couple has arguments, but what happens when recurring battles begin to feel like full-scale war? Do you retreat in hurt and angry silence, hoping that a spouse who "just doesn''t get it" will eventually see things your way? Spend the time between skirmishes gathering evidence that you''re right? Demand some immediate changes--or else? Whether due to innate personality traits or emotional vulnerabilities, there are some aspects of our behavior that are difficult to alter. But these differences do not have to get in the way of healthy, happy, and long-lasting romance. This practical guide offers new solutions for couples frustrated by continual attempts to make each other change. Aided by thought-provoking exercises and lots of real-life examples, readers will learn why they keep having the same fights again and again; how to keep small incompatibilities from causing big problems; and how true acceptance can restore health to their relationships.

La thérapie comportementale intégrative de couple est particulièrement efficace et a fait ses preuves. Ce véritable manuel de référence permettra à chaque thérapeute de comprendre les principes de l''IBCT, de l''appliquer et surtout d''aider les couples à mieux se comprendre et s''accepter. Les auteurs exposent des principes pratiques sur la formulation, l''évaluation et le feedback des difficultés des couples dans la perspective IBCT. Ils détaillent également les techniques permettant de parvenir à l''acceptation et au changement délibéré. Dans cette édition, les lecteurs découvrent les innovations apportées à l''approche IBCT depuis 20 ans : le perfectionnement des techniques thérapeutiques de base ; des conseils sur le travail avec des couples mixtes ou de même sexe ; les problèmes cliniques complexes ; et l''intégration de la technologie dans un traitement.

Vivre à deux est rarement simple, même quand on s''aime ! Nous avons, en effet, trop souvent tendance à vouloir changer l''autre. L''originalité et la force de l''approche des auteurs est de rejeter cette volonté de changement seul au profit, à la fois, du changement et de l''acceptation de l''autre ! Nos différences ne sont pas forcément incompatibles. À nous de faire en sorte de les accepter et de faire preuve de compréhension et de tolérance. C''est la base d''un modèle efficace d''apaisement ou de résolution, à long terme, des problématiques de couple. Ce livre vous aidera à : Définir le problème sur lequel se concentrer tout au long du programme ; Auto-évaluer votre relation grâce à de nombreux questionnaires ; Mieux comprendre les conflits au sein de votre couple.

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Scott Andrew Christensen''s debut collection the boundaries of return is a compelling exploration of passage in and through the natural world. Richly symbolic and formally experimental, Christensen''s poems create worlds at once uniquely perceptive and recognisable, in patterns of verbal play that are distinctive and memorable. "Scott Andrew Christensen''s poetry haunts the borders between the physically detailed and the metaphysically mysterious, or between Nature--in its beautiful details--and the Spirit, what is ineffable... Although the boundaries of return represents a debut, Christensen is already preternaturally skilled in edging toward Wisdom or Faith via witnessing everyday doings and the beings of persons, creatures, and things. Welcome--with joy--the boundaries of return." GEORGE ELLIOT CLARKE

To have a successful marriage, couples need to develop the ability to accept the unchangeable and change what can be changed. This realistic premise is at the heart of integrative couple therapy, the first approach to embrace both techniques for fostering acceptance and techniques for fostering change. The book offers rich clinical detail on how to develop a formulation encompassing the couple''s disparate conflict areas, enhance intimacy through acceptance, build tolerance for difference, and improve communication and problem-solving. The clinical implications of diversity in gender, culture, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation are taken into account, as are issues related to domestic violence, infidelity, depression, and drug and alcohol addiction. Integrative couple therapy creates a context in which partners can accept in each other what cannot be changed, change what they can, and compassionately, realistically recognize the difference.

Vivre à deux est rarement simple ! L’amour ne gomme pas les différences et nous avons trop souvent tendance à vouloir changer l’autre. L’originalité et la force de l’approche d’Andrew Christensen et de Neil Jacobsen est de rejeter cette volonté de changement seul au profit du changement et de l’acceptation de l’autre de manière simultanée ! Accepter que l’autre n’est pas soi, qu’il est différent, c’est là une richesse sur laquelle construire une relation harmonieuse. La thérapie comportementale intégrative de couple s’inscrit pleinement dans la troisième vague des thérapies cogntivo-comportementales et propose un modèle efficace de résolution ou d’apaisement, à long terme, des problématiques de couple. Nos différences ne sont pas forcément incompatibles. À nous de les accepter pour ce qu’elles sont, juste des différences, et de faire preuve de compréhension et de tolérance. Cet ouvrage s’adresse tout autant aux couples qui souhaitent transformer leurs situations conflictuelles qu’aux professionnels de la relation d’aide grâce aux nombreux exemples et outils qui y sont présentés. La postface explicative du modèle de la Thérapie comportementale intégrative du couple intéressera tout particulièrement les thérapeutes. Voici un passionnant manuel, où clinique et théorie se mêlent en un alliage parfaitement équilibré. Un vrai travail d’alchimiste, qui va aider le lecteur à transformer le plomb du conflit conjugal en or : l’or de l’acceptation authentique de nos différences. Car l’acceptation n’a rien à voir avec la passivité ou la résignation : elle est, dans un couple, la voie royale vers le changement. Christophe André, psychiatre, Paris. Cet ouvrage est un apport majeur aux thérapies de couple, qui développe l''approche par les contextes, fondamentale en thérapie familiale. Il repose sur des expériences cliniques de premier plan, et sur une démarche de recherche qui balise de manière pertinente le champ clinique où les interventions thérapeutiques deviennent performantes. Jacques Miermont, président de la SFTF (Société Française de Thérapies Familiales)