Couples in Therapy & The Psychology of Relationships
Resources & References
Online Courses:
Couples Therapy: Counterintuitive Approaches to Working More Effectively
The Psychology of Relationships: Promoting Intimacy with Couples, Children and Adolescents
Table Of Contents
Marty Klein On Sex, Relationships, Infidelity, and much more…
- Infidelity: What every couple should know
- Marty Klein on Sexuality
- “Sexual Addiction”
- America’s War on Sex
Family and Couple Therapy Related Professional Organizations
- American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists
- Division 43 of the APA is the Society for Family Psychology
- The Gottman Institute
- Milton H. Erickson Foundation
Online Articles on Couple Therapy
- A couple quits therapy; what is “normal” desire? – Dr. Marty Klein
- Countertransference: An overview – Dr. Steven Reidbord
- Letting go: the greatest challenge of parenting teens – Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg
- Therapist Talks Television and Cognitive Behavior Techniques for The Huffington Post – Dr. Judith S. Beck
- Your conditions for enjoyable sex – Dr. Marty Klein
Books on Couple and Family Issues
- Couples at the Crossroads: Finding Your Way Back to Love (2012) – Daniela Roher and Susan Schwartz
- Dancing with Fire: A Mindful Way to Loving Relationships (2013) – John Amodeo
- Divorce Busting – Michele Weiner-Davis
- If Only I Had Known – Gerald Weeks
- In Quest of the Mythical Mate – Ellyn Bader & Peter Pearson
- Lifelong Love: Four Steps to Creating and Maintaining an Extraordinary Relationship (2012) – Phyllis Koch-Sheras and Peter Sheras
- The Archetypal Couple (2012) – Tamar Kron
- The Dance of Intimacy – Harriet Lerner
- The Fear Fix: Solutions for Every Child’s Moments of Worry, Panic, and Fear (2013) – Sarah Chana Radcliffe
- Trancework – Michael Yapko
- For information on couples and intimacy:
- For information on parenting advice:
- For information on intimacy and people with disabilities:
- Infidelity: Myths and Facts
- Infidelity: What every couple should know
- Marty Klein on Sexuality
- Infidelity & Affairs: Facts & Myths and What Works
- Beyond Affairs.com Network
- Dear Peggy.com with Peggy Vaughan
- Not Just Friends, with Shirley Glass
- More resources
America’s War on Sex (YouTube)
- Abse, S. (2013). Further thoughts on when a problem shared is a problem . . . Whose illness is it anyway? Questions of technique when working with a borderline couple. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 3, 178 – 187.
- Anker, Morten G., Duncan, Barry L., Sparks, Jacqueline A.. (2009) Using Client Feedback to Improve Couple Therapy Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial in a Naturalistic Setting. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 77, No. 4, 693–704 0022-006X/09/ DOI: 10.1037/a0016062.
- Bader, Ellyn & Pearson, Peter (2016). Initiating Calm Discussions. www.couplesinstitute.com/initiating-calm-discussions/
- Balfour, A., & Lanman, M. (2012). An evaluation of time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy for couples: A pilot study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 85, 292–309.
- Baucom, D. H., Belus, J. M., Adelman, C. B., Fischer, M. S., & Paprocki, C. (2014). Couple-based interventions for psychopathology: A renewed direction for the field. Family Process, 53, 445– 461.
- Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. (2016). Blueprints database standards. Retrieved from http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/ programCriteria.php
- Borduin, C. M., & Dopp, A. R. (2015). Economic impact of multisystemic therapy with juvenile sexual offenders. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 687– 696.
- Brody, Stuart, Costa, Rui M.. Vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of women’s better psychological, intimate relationship, and psychophysiological function. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. Vol. 26, No. 1. DOI: 10.3138/cjhs.261-A3https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhs.261-A3
- Brogan, L., Haney-Caron, E., NeMoyer, A., & DeMatteo, D. (2015). Applying the Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model to juvenile justice. Criminal Justice Review, 19, 1–26.
- Brotto, L.A., & Basson, R. (2014). Group mindfulness-based therapy significantly improves sexual desire in women. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 57, 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.001 Medline:24814472 .
- Costa, R.M., & Brody, S. (2007). Women’s relationship quality is associated with specifically penile-vaginal intercourse orgasm and frequency. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 33(4), 319–327. Medline:17541850 .http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00926230701385548
- Dopp, A. R., Borduin, C. M., White, M. I., & Kuppens, S. (2017). Family-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders: A multilevel meta-analysis. Journal Of Consulting And Clinical Psychology, 85(4), 335-354.
- Doss, B. D., Rowe, L. S., Morrison, K. R., Libet, J., Birchler, G. R., Madsen, J. W., & McQuaid, J. R. (2012). Couple therapy for military veterans: Overall effectiveness and predictors of response. Behavior Therapy, 43, 216 –227.
- Gurman, Alan S. (2008). Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fourth Edition. New York: Guilford Press.
- Halford, W. K., Pepping, C. A., & Petch, J. (2016). The gap between couple therapy research efficacy and practice effectiveness. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42, 32– 44.
- Hedges, Lawrence (2011). Sex in Psychotherapy. London: Routledge.
- Heiman JR, Long JS, Smith SN, Fisher WA, Sand MS, Rosen RC. (2011) Sexual satisfaction and relationship happiness in midlife and older couples in five countries. Archives of sexual behavior;40(4):741–53. pmid:21267644
- Hertzmann, L. (2017). Review of A relational psychoanalytic approach to couples psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34(2), 255-259.
- Hewison, D., Casey, P., & Mwamba, N. (2016). The effectiveness of couple therapy: Clinical outcomes in a naturalistic United Kingdom setting. Psychotherapy, 53(4), 377-387.
- Hewison, D., Clulow, C., & Drake, H. (2014). Couple therapy for depression: A clinician’s guide to integrative practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Knobloch-Fedders, L. M., Pinsof, W. M., & Haase, C. M. (2015). Treatment response in couple therapy: Relationship adjustment and individual functioning change processes. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 657– 666.
- Lebow, J. L., Chambers, A. L., Christensen, A., & Johnson, S. M. (2012). Research on the treatment of couple distress. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 38, 145–168.
- Leonhardt, Nathan D., Willoughby, Brian J., Young-Petersen. Bonnie. (2017) Damaged Goods: Perception of Pornography Addiction as a Mediator Between Religiosity and Relationship Anxiety Surrounding Pornography Use. Published online: 13 Mar 2017Download citation http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1295013
- Ludlam, M., & Nyberg, V. (Eds.). (2007). Couple attachments: Theoretical and clinical studies. London, UK: Karnac.
- Nyberg, V., & Hertzmann, L. (2014). Developing a mentalization-based treatment (MBT) for therapeutic intervention with couples (MBT-CT). Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 4, 116 –135.
- O’Farrell TJ, Schumm JA, Dunlap LJ, Murphy MM, Muchowski P.(2016) A randomized clinical trial of group versus standard behavioral couples therapy plus individually based treatment for patients with alcohol dependence. J Consult Clin Psychol. Jun;84(6):497-510. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000089. Epub 2016 Mar 10.
- O’Farrell TJ, Schreiner A, Schumm J, Murphy M. (2016) Do outcomes after behavioral couples therapy differ based on the gender of the alcohol use disorder patient?Addict Behav 54:46-51. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.12.005. Epub 2015 Dec 9.
- Pui-Hing Wong, Josephine, Cockwell, Daphne, Macpherson, Fraser, Vahabi, Mandana, Li, Alan. Understanding the sexuality and sexual health of Muslim young people in Canada and other Western countries: A scoping review of research literature. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality Vol. 26, No. 1. DOI: 10.3138/cjhs.261-C1
- Reilly, Winifred (2017). It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help from My Spouse and How You Can, Too. New York: Touchstone.
- Schofield, Margot J , Mumford, Nicholas, Jurkovic, Dubravko, Jurkovic, Ivancica, and Bickerdike, Andrew. (2012) Short and long-term effectiveness of couple counselling: a study protocol. BMC Public Health; 12: 735. Published online 2012 Sep 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-735 PMCID: PMC3490822
- Slepian ML, Chun JS, Mason MF. (2017) The experience of secrecy. J Pers Soc Psychol;113(1):1-33. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000085. Epub 2017 May 8.