Integrative Couple and Family Therapies
Available formats
Also available from
Couples and families experience stressors of all kinds, such as infertility, blending families, infidelity, military trauma, incarceration, and sexual abuse. Social scrutiny resulting from racism, undocumented immigration, or LGBTQ status can further complicate these already difficult issues. Likewise, new technologies such as social media and data tracking can also intensify problematic patterns.
Couples and families entering treatment need a flexible, systematic, and responsive approach to their complex problems, which integrative therapies offer.
In this volume, Patricia Pitta and Corinne C. Datchi and their esteemed colleagues summarize current scientific knowledge about the multifaceted clinical problems that bring couples and families to therapy, and discuss integrative couple and family therapy models. Eleven detailed case conceptualizations illustrate how practitioners and therapists use integrative models in treatment.
This guide will be useful for trainees as well as practicing psychologists, social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
Contributors
Introduction: How Do Integrative Therapies Help Couples and Families?
Patricia Pitta, Corinne C. Datchi, and Jerry Gold
I. Integrative Couple and Family Therapy With Complex Clinical Problems
- Complicated Loss, Grieving, and Infertility: Assimilative Family Therapy
Patricia Pitta - Incest and Relational Trauma: The Systemic Narrative Feminist Model
Peter Fraenkel - Infidelity, Self-Differentiation, and Intimacy: The Mindful Differentiation Model of Couple Therapy
Susan Regas - Money, Power, and Gender in Intimate Relationships: Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy
Terence Patterson and Corinne C. Datchi - Couples in the Digital Age: A Systemic Psychodynamic Behavioral Model of Couple Therapy
Arthur C. Nielsen
II. Integrative Couple and Family Therapy With Diverse Clinical Populations
- Holographic Reprocessing Couple Therapy With Military Couples
Lori S. Katz - Functional Family Therapy With Couples Behind Bars
Corinne C. Datchi - The SALUD Model of Family Therapy With Undocumented Latinx Youth
Joseph M. Cervantes - Resiliency-Focused Couple and Family Therapy With Gay Men
David Greenan - Stepfamily Therapy With Stepgrandparents and Their Adult Children
Scott Browning and Brad van Eeden-Moorefield - Integrative Systemic Therapy With African American Couples
Gihane Jérémie-Brink and Anthony Chambers
Index
About the Editors
Patricia Pitta, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified couple and family psychologist. She is a fellow of APA and the Academy of Family Psychology.
Dr. Pitta is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a clinical fellow and approved supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Dr. Pitta has received numerous awards throughout her career and has appeared in various media outlets. She is in private practice in Manhasset, New York.
Her book, Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Family Therapy Model, discusses the assimilative family therapy model and its application throughout the life cycle.
She is a clinical adjunct professor and the director of the postgraduate program in integrative couple and family psychology at St. John's University.
Corinne C. Datchi, PhD, ABPP, is an associate professor and cochair of the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University.
She is a fellow of APA and a licensed psychologist with board certification in couple and family psychology. Her research and clinical practice focus on correctional populations, reentry, problem-solving justice, and gender.
She has written and published in peer-reviewed journals about family therapy, offender rehabilitation, and qualitative research methods. Her most recent contribution is as coeditor of Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System.
Dr. Datchi is also the president-elect of the Society for Couple and Family Psychology (APA Division 43).
I recommend this book without reservation to anyone working with couples and families. All the chapters are quite strong. The integrative treatment models described here will be useful for trainees as well as practicing psychologists, social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
—C. Wayne Jones, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
By exploring the chapters of this book, the reader will come away with a deeper understanding of the variety of family systems therapy…. I can suggest this book as a resource for any clinician working with couples and families that want to learn how to more effectively treat contemporary issues, couples and families from an integrative perspectives.
—Jim Walkup, LMFT, DMin
Using fascinating case material, this clinically sophisticated yet practitioner- and reader-friendly volume demonstrates how various techniques can be interwoven to alleviate some of life's biggest challenges. I highly recommend this creative application of psychotherapy integration to couple and family therapists of all theoretical orientations.
—Stanley B. Messer, PhD
Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Dean, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
As the couple and family therapy fields move toward integrative therapies, this volume represents a timely and essential contribution. Chapters devoted to special populations illustrate masterfully why therapy with these clients necessitates an integrative approach.
—Douglas C. Breunlin, MSSA, LMFT, LCSW
Clinical Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
The speed of change and the reshaping of our assumptions about what should happen with a couple and their relationship demand innovative and integrative approaches. Packed with useful answers to the questions couple therapists confront, this book makes the case that various forms of integration can aid couples in overcoming internal and external challenges. Patient vignettes help readers comprehend how each integrative approach works.
—Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
Professor, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts Boston
