Jay Lebow

Jay Lebow (born 1948) is a family psychologist and clinical professor at the Family Institute at Northwestern University and is editor in chief of the journal Family Process.

Lebow is a proponent and developer of methods of integrative practice of couples therapy and family therapy (Evans, 2010; Wilson, 2010). Integrative couple and family therapy merges various theoretical approaches to couple and family therapy into a set of methods for best practice.

Lebow's Couple and Family Therapy: An Integrative Map of the Territory (Lebow, 2014; Karam 2014) identifies the shared concepts and intervention strategies that are the foundation for modern couple and family therapy. Most important are a set of common factors that are at work in all therapies, and another set of common factors specific to couple and family therapies, which Lebow and colleagues Doug Sprenkle and Sean Davis described in Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy (Seedall, 2011; Sprenkle, Davis, & Lebow, 2009). These common factors include the therapeutic alliance, setting positive and realistic expectations, and maintaining a family systems perspective. With William Pinsof, Doug Breunlin, Bill Russell, Cheryl Rampage, and Anthony Chambers, Lebow is a creator of Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks, a model for doing couple and family therapy (Pinsof et al. 2011; Carr, 2012).

Since 2012, Lebow has been editor in chief of the journal Family Process, the oldest journal in the field of family therapy (Imber-Black, 2011). During Lebow's tenure Family Process has expanded its publication of research about family processes and evidence based couple and family therapies. Lebow has also edited major volumes including Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies (Lebow, 2008), Family Psychology: The Art of the Science (co edited with William Pinsof (Pinsof & Lebow, 2005), the Clinical Handbook of Couple and Family Therapy (co-edited with Alan Gurman and Douglas Snyder), and the Handbook of Family Therapy co-edited with Tom Sexton. He also has written Research for the Psychotherapist (Evans, 2010; Jenkins, 2008), a volume that bridges the gap between research and practice in psychotherapy.

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