Integrative behavioral couples therapy

I'm your host, Abigail Rossell, and I'm excited to be kicking off our Treating Couples series today, where over the course of the next several episodes, we'll be highlighting a variety of different couple therapy approaches.

And we're starting off today with Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, IBCT.

We're joined by Dr. Andrew Christensen, who is a distinguished research professor of psychology at UCLA and one of the leading experts in IBCT.

Along with the late Dr. Neal Jacobson, Dr. Christensen developed IBCT, which is an evidence-based approach that uniquely emphasizes both acceptance and change in helping couples navigate conflict and distress.

Dr. Christensen has spent more than three decades studying the effectiveness of couple therapy in refining IBCT, and his work has helped bring the treatment into really widespread clinical practice, including its adoption by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs as an evidence-based treatment for couples.

He's also the co-author of Reconcilable Differences, a self-help book for couples based on IBCT, and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, a guide for clinicians.

So we're thrilled to be joined by Dr. Christensen today.

Thank you, Dr. Christensen, for joining us.