Short-Term Couple Therapy

by Donovan, James M.

• ISBN13: 9781572308336
• ISBN10: 1572308338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-23
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This unique guide brings together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate the nuts-and-bolts of their brief work with couples. The time- and cost-effective models discussed are explicitly short-term--not long-term on fast forward--and detailed case excerpts and clinical examples highlight how each form of therapy is actually conducted. Noted contributors include Susan Johnson, Philip Guerin, Michael Nichols and Salvador Minuchin, Simon Budman, Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson, James Keim, and many others.

Author Biography

James M. Donovan, PhD, received his undergraduate education at Stanford University and his doctorate from the University of Michigan. A veteran of HMO mental health work, he has served as staff psychologist at Harvard Community Health Plan, now Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, for over 25 years. Dr. Donovan is founder and codirector of the Mental Health Fellowship at Harvard Vanguard and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents

Short-Term Couple Therapy and the Principles of Brief Treatment	1	(12)
James M. Donovan
PART I: PSYCHODYNAMIC METHODS
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Straight to the Heart	13	(30)
Susan M. Johnson
Short-Term Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Tale of Four Fights	43	(20)
James M. Donovan
A Control Mastery Approach to Short-Term Couple Therapy	63	(40)
Richard Vogel
PART II: THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH
Brief Marital Therapy: The Story of the Triangles	103	(21)
Philip J. Guerin, Jr.
Leo F. Fay
Thomas F. Fogarty
Judith G. Kautto
Short-Term Structural Family Therapy with Couples	124	(20)
Michael P. Nichols
Salvador Minuchin
Psychoanalytically Informed Short-Term Couple Therapy	144	(29)
Phyllis Cohen
Time-Effective Couple Therapy	173	(28)
Simon H. Budman
PART III. COLLABORATIVE MODELS
Collaborative Couple Therapy	201	(25)
Daniel B. Wile
Integrative Couple Therapy: The Dyadic Relationship of Acceptance and Change	226	(39)
Erika Lawrence
Kathleen Eldridge
Andrew Christensen
Neil S. Jacobson
PART IV. THE POSTMODERN SCHOOLS
Brief Strategic Marital Therapy	265	(26)
James Keim
Narrative Solutions in Brief Couple Therapy	291	(34)
Joseph B. Eron
Thomas W. Lund
A Time-Effective, Solution-Focused Approach to Couple Therapy	325	(35)
Steven Friedman
Eve Lipchik
Couples, Culture, and Discourse: A Narrative Approach	360	(41)
John H. Neal
Jeffrey L. Zimmerman
Victoria C. Dickerson
Short-Term Couple Therapy: The Present and the Future	401	(8)
James M. Donovan
Index	409