Abstract
Intimate couple relationship distress has high prevalence and a strong linkage to emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems in the adult partners and their offspring. The authors review findings regarding the effectiveness of couple therapy for relationship distress, as well as for mental and physical health problems. Moderators and mediators of couple therapy outcomes are discussed, along with implications for tailoring couple therapy to individual and relationship characteristics. A hierarchical pluralistic approach to couple therapy is proposed, including sample indicators of specific techniques at different levels of intervention. Enduring challenges for the field of couple therapy are identified-including those for clinical training and practice, clinical research, and effective delivery and dissemination.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, Set |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 3-25 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Volume | 3-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781119438519 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 26 2020 |
Keywords
- Clinical training
- Couple distress
- Couple therapy
- Couple-based interventions
- Dissemination
- Integrative therapy
- Marital distress
- Marital therapy
- Pluralism
- Treatment mechanisms
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