Integrative behavioural couple therapy (IBCT) Traditional TBCT relied for its effectiveness on the ability of couples to accommodate and collaborate with each other. Aware that many couples could not do this, and that conflict could have positive as well as negative effects, Jacobson and Christensen developed the model to incorporate ‘acceptance’ as a central focus for couples with irreconcilab...

Relationship Enhancement Couple Therapy and Couple Group Therapy Barry G. Ginsberg’ Relationship enhancement couple and couple group therapy has remained innovative and effective for more than 40 years. This evidenced-based approach is an educational, skilltraining model designed to improve satisfaction and stability in the couple relationship. Couples learn how to be more accepting and nonjudg...

The study of the impact of EFT training and how this model can best be taught and supervised is the logical next step in a systematic program of research that has unfolded over the last 25 years. In fact, such studies are a necessary step in the documentation of EFT’s generalizability; this factor is perhaps one of the final concerns to be addressed after a model of intervention has demonstrate...

Social relationships are tightly linked to health and well-being. Recent work suggests that social relationships can even serve vital emotion regulation functions by minimizing threat-related neural activity. But relationship distress remains a significant public health problem in North America and elsewhere. A promising approach to helping couples both resolve relationship distress and nurture...

Emotionally focused marital therapy (EFT), a marital therapy that particularly focuses on the creation of secure attachment, has proven in empirical studies to be effective for distressed couples. This paper discusses the application of EFT in couples where one or both of the partners have experienced significant trauma. EFT, in this context of trauma, incorporates the nine steps of conventiona...

The focus of this article is on the link among theory, process, and outcome in the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples. We describe the EFT model of change and the EFT perspective on adult love as the reflection of underlying attachment processes. We outline the manner in which theory and research inform EFT interventions. This leads into a detailed review of the literatur...