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Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Couples expands the boundaries of cognitive behavioral therapy with a framework that goes beyond partners' moment-to-moment interactions and takes into account the personal characteristics of the two individuals, their dyadic interactions, and  influences of the couple's interpersonal and physical environment. The authors  emphasize what each partner brings to the relationship, including each person's  past relationship experiences, current motives or needs, personality style, and psychopathology. Furthermore, they consider how the couple's environment influences relationship functioning, including such factors as the couple's family systems, community and cultural influences, and other life-circumstances such as job loss or a death in the family.

The authors also focus on ways to intervene when the couple struggles with developmental changes experienced by either partner or the couple, such as new challenges when children move into adolescence. This contextual approach helps couples understand their healthy individual differences, any unresolved personal issues and possible psychopathology, and individual and familial needs. This groundbreaking text moves beyond a focus on dysfunctional aspects of relationships to provide an equal emphasis on the contributions that positive  behavior, cognitions, and emotions play in couples' relationships. In addition,  individuals' discrete behavioral, cognitive, and affective responses are viewed  within the context of broader relationship patterns and themes such as  boundaries, distribution of power, and investment of oneself in the  relationship. Chapters explore interventions for modifying behavior, cognitions,  and deficits or excesses in emotional responses, ways to address individual  psychopathology, strategies for assisting couples in coping with environmental demands, and approaches for enhancing relationship strengths.

The authors provide a unique integration of theory, research, and practical  suggestions that will be appealing to students, scholars, and practitioners. They have integrated work from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and the book will be appealing to couple specialists across disciplines and theoretical orientations. They continue their commitment to empirical findings and demonstrate how these findings can be used sensitively in clinical settings, while considering each couple's uniqueness. The book is easy to read and filled  with clinical examples that bring their ideas to life. Whether working with  couples or with individual clients experiencing relationship challenges,  therapists and counselors will find this book to be indispensable.

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Drs. Epstein and Baucom have been counseling and studying couples since the  early 1970's, and they are widely acknowledged as experts in the field. This book is a fresh, new approach to working with couples that integrates the  individual characteristics of the partners with relationship dynamics and social  and environmental factors. It is really the first book to consider all of the  factors that affect a marriage. The first part of the book is an encyclopedic review of the theory and research on all types of marital therapy, with emphasis  on cognitive and behavioral treatments. The remainder of the book is packed with  practical advice on how to conduct couples counseling, with many case examples.  Overall, Epstein and Baucom have done an excellent job of being thorough yet  very readable and clear. Anyone working with couples from professionals to lay workers would benefit greatly from reading this book. You will find yourself enjoying reading it, and returning to it again and again.

Charles K. Burnett PhD, Dr.P.H.
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