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The focusing-oriented approach applied to couple therapy
Many couple therapists prefer an integrative approach to working with couples. They also have shown more interest in the humanistic approach in recent times than they used to do in the past. However there has been almost no discussion in the literature of how the focusing-oriented approach can be …
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Couple Therapy Process and Its Relation to Therapy Outcome
Research on psychotherapy has found that characteristics of clients and therapists often are more strongly associated with treatment outcome than are specific therapeutic models or techniques. This study examined the relations between client and therapist common factors and outcomes of couple …
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Co-Constructing Cultural Attunement with Latino Clients in Couple Therapy
… is a need for culturally attuned approaches for couple’s therapy with Mexican/ Mexican-American people (Falicov, 2009). However, there have been few theoretical frameworks to conceptualize cultural attunement, and attunement has been primarily understood as a skill or as an attitude rather than …
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Exploring a Psycholinguistic Method of Assessing Attachment Orientation in Couple Therapy
… in the context of an attachment-based couple therapy, with the broad goal of potentially expanding our ability to measure attachment orientation in research. The results indicate that attachment orientation is a meaningful metric for analyzing individuals\' speech regarding their …
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Clients' Views Regarding the Inclusion of Religious Issues in Couple Therapy
… do not ask about or address religious issues in therapy. Argument is given for why religious issues should not be excluded from therapy as well as why religion has historically been avoided by many therapists. To understand what clients' views are on this issue, eight couples who had participated …
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Dyadic Research in Couple Therapy: The Link between Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction
<p>Couple therapy ranks among the most frequently and diligently researched topics in Marital and Family therapy (MFT). Additionally, intimate partner relationships are a key focal point for clinical intervention with increasingly more couples seeking therapy to address relational conflict, repair …
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Gender, Power, and Trust Issues in Couple Therapy with Adult-Survivor Couples
<p>Although one-third of partners in couple therapy have experienced childhood abuse, our field has developed few specific interventions that address the lingering effects of child abuse on current couple dynamics. A common impact on adult survivors is the struggle to trust their intimate partner. …
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Illness As A Relational Process: Qualitative Analysis of Couple Therapy with Liver Patients
… to the many ways illness impacts families and couples. Due to the focus on the biological process of disease, couples often struggle with the relational experience of illness. Quantitative research has provided ample evidence that couples coping with chronic illness from a relational …
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Individual Motivation To Seek Couple Therapy: An Application of the Health Belief Model
Despite the well-established effectiveness of couple therapy for reducing distress and improving relationship satisfaction (Cohen, 1988; Christensen and Heavey, 1999), less than a fourth of couples seek couple therapy prior to divorce (Albrecht, Bahr, and Goodman, 1983; Wolcott, 1986). Rather, the …
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Projective and introjective identification in a couple therapy case study: a hermeneutical examination
… dialogues with one object relations, couple therapy, case study were performed to research the role of projective and introjective identification within an intersubjective context. The method, Gadatner's (1993) philosophical hermeneutics, involved a dialectical moving back and forth …
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The Severity of Recurrent Violence During and Following Couples\' Participation in Domestic Violence-Focused Couple Therapy
… aggression that recurred during and following couples\' participation in Domestic Violence-Focused Couple Therapy. The overall recurrence of violence was found to be quite high. Chi Square tests revealed a difference in severity of violence during the time couples (N=41) were participating in …
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Emotional incest: an exploratory study of therapists' perceptions of the phenomenon and their experiences with it in couple therapy practice
… encountered the phenomenon in their work with couples presenting for therapy; where one partner in the couple war or is currently involved in a parental relationship charactersised by emotional incest. The research investigated therapists' perceptions of the phenomenon of emotional incest and …
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Influential Client Factors: Understanding and Organizing Therapists' Perceptions Of Client Factors That Influence Reported Outcome of Therapy
… component in determining the outcome of therapy. Although a variety of studies have examined the impact of various client factors on the outcome of couple therapy, this research is not cohesive and produces inconsistent results. The purpose of this multi-method study is to present a sense …
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A Gestalt model of domains in couple’s work: a qualitative, theory-building case study
… qualitative case study in the field of couple therapy, based on a Gestalt phenomenological and relational methodology. I propose a new Gestalt Model of Domains in Couple’s Work (GMoD) to develop and improve clinical practice. The research explores the co-created stagnation in couples’ …
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Repairing alliance ruptures in emotionally focused therapy: A preliminary task analysis
… be positively related to therapeutic outcome in couple therapy (Johnson & Talitman, 2007; Knoblock-Fedders, Pinsoff, & Mann, 2007). It is common for the therapeutic alliance to vary over the course of therapy. Alliance ruptures can be defined as "deteriorations in the relationship between …
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A psychodynamic approach to short-term couples therapy in clinical social work : some aspects of the combined conjoint-concurrent technique
… planned therapeutic intervention procedures to couples who are in distress. Written in two parts, this paper is esentially a review of selected literature on the efficacy of social work psychotherapv with couples. Couple therapy, which deals with the two individuals per se and not merely with …
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Couples Sharing Recovery from a Husband's Addiction to Pornography: A Qualitative Study
This study evaluated the therapy process for married couples recovering from addictive use of pornography. The author's proposal was that in conjoint couple therapy, clinicians are able to help organize the relationship to sponsor recovery while helping both members of the relationship heal …
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