A guide for practicing marital therapists in using the cognitive-behavioral approach, concerned with how the subjects think, experience emotions, and behave, and with providing skills for them to address future as well as immediate problems. The sections cover theoretical and empirical explanations.
The current volume by Baucom and Epstein demonstrates the product that can result when two individuals, both of whom are skilled therapists, creative theoreticians and experienced researchers, combine their efforts. No other two individuals have the depth of understanding and the breadth of knowledge needed to write a book of his magnitude on cognitive behavioral therapy of marital distress. As a result, the best of the scientist-practitioner is revealed in Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Therapy.
