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Andrew Christensen is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and did his internship at Rutgers University Medical School. He studies couple conflict and couple therapy and has published over 150 articles on these and related topics. He is co-author of the influential scholarly work, Close Relationships (Freeman, 1983, reprinted in 2002). For therapists, he authored Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A therapist’s guide for transforming relationships (1998, Norton) with Neil S. Jacobson. He also completed a self-help book for couples, Reconcilable Differences (2000, Guilford) with Jacobson. His therapy approach and research have been cited in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, and other magazines and newspapers.
Christensen developed a treatment program for couples with Jacobson called Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy. He directed a large, multi-site study at UCLA and the University of Washington, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, comparing Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy with Traditional Behavioral Couple Therapy. This is the largest study to date of the effectiveness of marital therapy. Currently Christensen is involved in training therapists in the United States Veteran’s Administration as part of their “roll out” of empirically supported treatments.
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