Case Studies in Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Couple Narratives

This book gives readers a rich and detailed understanding of what it is like to work with a diverse range of couple presentations from a CBT perspective. The book starts by outlining the principle conceptual insights and therapeutic strategies of two different two approaches to CBT Couple Therapy, Contextually Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy and Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy. In part two, authors working in a wide range of clinical settings describe how they have drawn upon and applied CBT Couple therapy across a variety of issues including: couple distress, sexual issues, infidelity, inter-partner violence, transition to parenthood, separation issues, personality disorders, and more. Each chapter provides discussions of strategies for assessment and formulation and includes examples of dialogue from fictionalised case studies as well as therapist tips. Case Studies in Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy will be required reading for both beginning and experienced couple therapists who wish to draw upon the wide range of evidence-based strategies available in Cognitive Behavioural Couple therapy.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Major Frameworks for Practice 1. The Tradition of Behavioural Approaches to Couple Therapy 2. Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy 3. Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy Part Two: Case Studies 4. Relationship Distress 5. Intimate Partner Violence and Transition to Parenthood 6. Working with Sexual Issues 7. Working with Sexual Minority Couples 8. Long Term Health Conditions 9. Complexities of Language and Culture: How Not to Get Lost in Translation 10. Depression 1. Hoarding 12. Personality Disorder 13. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 14. Infidelity 15. Neurodiversity 16. Substance Misuse and Addictions 17. Endings and Separations Part Three: Concluding Comments 18. The Challenges, Dilemmas, and Rewards of CBT Couple Therapy

About the Author :
Michael Worrell, PhD, is Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Michael has for over a decade been involved in the delivery of training in CBCT for NHS Talking Therapies services. Michael also works with couples in private practice in London. Michael is the author of ‘Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Distinctive Features’ published by Routledge in 2015. Dr. Marion Cuddy, DClinPsy, is a clinical psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She specialises in individual and couple-based CBT for adults experiencing common mental health problems. She has been involved in the training and supervision of therapists for many years and has contributed to a number of publications on couple therapy.

Review :
"Books about CBT can sometimes appear formulaic, giving standard accounts of typical, successful therapies. In this book the editors have given the authors scope to craft more varied narratives of couple therapy that capture the essence of working with a variety of problems. By doing so the contributors bring alive ways of working with couples whose experience is often left out of usual training manuals, such as neurodiversity, sexual minority relationships and cross cultural issues. A chapter on separation recognises that a successful outcome of couple therapy may actually be to de-couple. This will be an invaluable resource for any therapists working within the behavioural and couple therapy framework." Dr Stirling Moorey, MD, Retired Consultant Psychiatrist in CBT