Jay Lebow

• Ph.D.
• Northwestern University

Tento článek přináší kritickou analýzu a syntézu současného stavu a nového vývoje v současné párové terapii. Jejím hlavním tématem je vývoj párové terapie do podoby významné intervenční modality a uceleného souboru postupů. Přehled začíná úvahami o silných empirických základech této oblasti odvozených z výzkumu párové terapie a základních vztahovýc...

This paper provides a critical analysis and synthesis of the current status and emerging developments in contemporary couple therapy. Its narrative centers on the evolution of couple therapy into a prominent intervention modality and coherent body of practice. The review begins with the consideration of the field's strong empirical underpinnings de...

Although initially considered a transgressive movement away from the historical focus on individual psychopathology, family therapy has evolved from a rogue subculture into a distinct discipline with its own set of theories, models, epistemologies, and practices. In its 70-year history, family therapy has accumulated a substantial amount of empiric...

COVID‐19 and the accompanying procedures of shelter‐in place have had a powerful effect on all families but have additional special meanings in the context of families contemplating divorce, divorcing, or carrying out post‐divorce arrangements. This paper explores those special meanings for these families. It also offers suggestions for couple and...

Publication about family therapy and family therapy research has changed a great deal since the early days of couple and family therapy. This chapter will speak to several key aspects of publication today, presenting three of the most prominent family therapy journals: Family Process (United States; editor: Jay Lebow), Journal of Family Therapy (Un...

This paper provides an overview of current issues in integration in couple and family therapy. It summarizes the evolution of integration in couple and family therapy, the various traditions in integration, the strengths of integrative approach, and the possible pitfalls involved. It highlights the extent to which most couple and family therapy is...

This chapter reviews strategies that are relevant to intervention with families involved in high conflict divorce. At the center of this approach is a steady patient approach based in constructing realistic proximate goals for treatment in the context of what typically are contentious conflicts. Accent is both on engaging common factors and specifi...

Family Process is a leading journal in the field of couple and family therapy. It seeks to produce the best articles concerned with couple and family therapy and family science. In particular, Family Process has had a crucial role in the evolution of family therapy, serving as a principal outlet for the development of the field.

Divorce is almost always difficult. Further complications arise when issues concerning child custody and visitation are added. Working with these families can be particularly delicate and difficult because of the myriad circumstances and issues they bring into therapy. Nonetheless, intervention can play a significant role to ease the divorce proces...

Integrative, research-based, multisystemic: these words reflect not only the state of family therapy, but the nature of this comprehensive handbook as well. The contributors, all well-recognized names who have contributed extensively to the field, accept and embrace the tensions that emerge when integrating theoretical perspectives and science in c...

Progress or feedback research tracks and feeds back client progress data throughout the course of psychotherapy. In the effort to empirically ground psychotherapeutic practice, feedback research is both a complement and alternative to empirically supported manualized treatments. Evidence suggests that tracking and feeding back progress data with in...

Reviews the book Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Co-Creating Clinical Maps for Change (see record 2014-25807-000 ) by Rhonda N. Goldman and Leslie S. Greenberg. Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is a humanistic-experiential integrative model of psychotherapy, focused on the processing of emotion and the dialectical-constructivist processes...

Alan S. Gurman, one of the most distinguished and influential family psychologists of our day, was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, May 26, 1945, and died in Madison, Wisconsin, September 6, 2013. The consummate editor and author, Al held many editorial posts. Al can be credited with moving couple and family therapy from a collection of approaches...

Chapter 76 discusses techniques for conducting couple and family therapy (CFT) and presents 40 suggestions for improving the process and outcomes of CFT.

Family therapy is a set of treatment methods based in a systemic understanding of mutual influence in family systems, and which typically involve the presence of more than one family member in treatment. Research finds the effect sizes of couple and family therapy to be approximately the same as in individual therapy, with 70% of clients showing si...

Though it is clear from meta-analytic research that couple therapy works well, it is less clear how couple therapy works. Efforts to attribute change to the unique ingredients of a particular model have consistently turned up short, leading many researchers to suggest that change is due to common factors that run through different treatment approac...

This article reviews the research on couple therapy over the last decade. The research shows that couple therapy positively impacts 70% of couples receiving treatment. The effectiveness rates of couple therapy are comparable to the effectiveness rates of individual therapies and vastly superior to control groups not receiving treatment. The relatio...

This article reviews the characteristics of parents involved in the custody and visitation disputes in the legal system, foundations for treating such parents, and an integrative systemic therapy developed to intervene with these families. Parents and children involved in these conflicts are often at risk for a wide variety of problems. The integra...

Over the last 20 years psychotherapy and family therapy have been inundated with a plethora of empirically validated treatments for particular disorders. That trend will increase. Psychotherapists will increasingly be exhorted and ultimately required to integrate empirical data and multicultural competence into their practice. Additionally, individ...

This is the second of 2 articles presenting Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks (IPCM) Therapy, a multisystemic, integrative, empirically informed, and common factor perspective for family, couple, and individual psychotherapy. The first article presented IPCM's foundation concepts and Blueprint for therapy, focusing on the first Blueprint...

Guidelines for Evidence-Based Treatments in Family Therapy are intended to help guide clinicians, researchers, and policy makers in identifying specific clinical interventions and treatment programs for couples and families that have scientifically based evidence to support their efficacy. In contrast to criteria, which simply identify treatments t...

Dieser Artikel beschreibt zusammenfassend die wichtigsten Komponenten der „Problemzentrierten Metarahmen” (Problemcentered Metaframeworks, PCM – Breunlin, Schwartz u. MacKune-Karrer 1992, Pinsof 1995), einer umfassenden, integrativen und empiriebasierten psychotherapeutischen Perspektive für die Behandlung von Einzelpersonen, Paaren und Familien.

Clinical work with clients suffering from personality disorders can be among the most challenging for psychologists. These clients may have a wide range of clinical presentations, and many practitioners may lack the specialized training needed to provide successful treatment to these clients. Clinicians are faced with several challenges in making t...

Couples therapy is a form of psychotherapy targeting problems within a couple (e.g., two individuals in a committed romantic relationship). Whereas individual psychotherapy focuses on one person and that person's problem areas, couples therapy targets the problems of the couple, whether married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual. Couples ther...

The Myth of Lack of Shared Values and GoalsDifferent WorldviewsThe Value of the Research ViewpointToo Much of a Good Thing?Evidence-Based PracticeThe Value of the Clinician's ViewpointLogical Positivist versus Postmodern EpistemologyImpact of Epistemology Debates on Couple and Family PsychologyConclusion References

This article details the development and methodological characteristics of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC), the first measurement system designed to assess change in family, couple, and individual therapy from a multisystemic and multidimensional perspective. The article focuses specifically on the developmental process that resulte...

This article overviews significant developments in couple therapy over the last decade. Key trends include: (1) couple therapy becoming firmly established as the accepted treatment of choice for couple problems, (2) the blossoming of the science of relationships, (3) strong evidence supporting the effectiveness of couple therapy both for relationsh...

This paper sets forth generic guidelines for the clinician to observe in building and practicing a personal integrative method in family therapy. Principles are articulated around five foci: (a) the need for a personal paradigm, (b) the assimilation of aspects of scholastic approaches, (c) the role of the person of the therapist, (d) the adaptation...

This paper considers the strengths and weaknesses of an integrative approach to family therapy. An integrative approach can explain a broad range of human behavior, can shape intervention strategy in a manner appropriate to each case, can allow for treatment of a broad client population, can combine the strengths of each of the specific approaches,...

A growing number of divorcing families become locked in intractable disputes over child custody and visitation. This article describes an integrative family therapy approach targeted toward such families. Aspects of this treatment include negotiating a clear therapy contract, creating a multipartial alliance with all parties, assessing through the...

Families presenting to treatment hope to learn strategies and skills to improve their functioning. Homework is one essential tool family therapists use to support these strivings. While therapists select homework assignments based on the targets of the intervention, the same kind of core family processes are ultimately involved, such as strengtheni...

Relational diagnosis has crucial importance in clinical treatment, but its development and inclusion in systems of classification such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual has been constrained by a number of factors. First, there is little consensus about what relational assessment and/or diagnosis entails. A second obstacle is the innate compl...

This article, based on B. McCrady, D. Haaga, and J. Lebow (2006), provides guidance for the treatment of substance use disorders by identifying empirically based principles that underpin effective treatment systems and effective treatments. To promote the flexible application of empirically based principles to individual clients, the authors (a) in...

This volume marks a watershed in the development of couple and family therapy. We have entered an era in which the most prominent models of practice no longer primarily accentuate disparate, broad visions of how families operate and how people change, as they did a generation ago, but instead draw from a core set of well-established strategies to c...

This article describes integrative multilevel family therapy for disputes involving child custody and visitation, a multiple-level systems-based treatment specifically targeted at those engaged in intractable conflicts over child custody and visitation. Parents and children engaged in these conflicts are at risk for a variety of difficulties. Key a...