Integrative Couple and Family Therapies: Treatment Models for Complex Clinical Issues, Hardcover

This book demonstrates how integrative clinical practices provide a flexible, systematic, and responsive approach to working with couples and families with complex challenges.

Couples and families experience stressors of all kinds, such as infertility, blending families, infidelity, military trauma, incarceration, and sexual abuse. Complicating these already-difficult issues may be added social scrutiny due to racism, undocumented immigration, or LGBTQ status. Likewise, new technologies such as social media and data tracking, while having many positive uses, can also intensify problematic patterns. Couples and families entering treatment need a tailored clinical approach, which integrative therapies offer.

Contributors to this edited book summarize current scientific knowledge about the complex clinical problems that bring couples and families to treatment, and discuss integrative couple and family therapy models. Eleven detailed case conceptualizations illustrate how practitioners and therapists use integrative models to provide care for couples and families. This roadmap of integrative treatments is for trainees as well as currently practicing psychologists, social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.

Patricia Pitta, PhD, ABPP is a Board Certified Couple and Family Psychologist in private practice. She is also a Clinical Adjunct Professor and the Director of the Post Graduate Program in Integrative Couple and Family Psychology at St. John's University in New York. Dr. Pitta has spent her career working with families and couples throughout the life cycle integrating different approaches to promote healing. These are featured in her book, Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Family Therapy Model. She lives in Manhasset, New York. Visit her website www.drpatriciapitta.com and follow @drpitta.

Corinne C. Datchi, PhD, ABPP, is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University. Her research and clinical practice focus on correctional populations, reentry, problem solving, social justice, and gender. She recently co-edited Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System. In 2019 Corinne served as president of the Society for Couple and Family Psychology (APA Division 43). She lives in West Orange, New Jersey. Visit https: //www.shu.edu/profiles/corinnedatchi.cfm.