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Marital Midterm
Midterm for Principles of Marital Therapy at JBU's grad counseling program
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Purpose for Pre-Marital Counseling | Stimulate DISCUSSION about the couple's relationship Identify and build relationship STRENGTHS Identify and resolve relationship GROWTH areas Teach EFFECTIVE relationship SKILLS Empower Couples to turn stumbling blocks into STEPPING STONES |
| Nearly __________ of currently married individuals reported some sort of premarital education experience. | one-third (31%) |
| The percentage of individuals who received premarital education has increased from ____ in the 1960s, to ______ in the 1980s, and _____ in the recent period. | 22% 32% 44% |
| Premarital education is associated with roughly a _____ decline in the odds of divorce for the couple. | 30% |
| Common Topics of Premarital Education/Counseling | 1. Communication/Conflict Resolution 2. Financial 3. Expectations 4. Religious Beliefs 5. Sexual Dynamic 6. Parenting/Kids 7. Family of Origin 8. Boundaries (family of origin, etc.) 9. Future/Goals 10. Differences 11. Commitment 12. Roles/House |
| How does CBCT define a "healthy relationship?" | • One that contributes to the growth, development, well-being, and needs fulfillment of each partner. • One in which both partners contribute to the well-being of the relationship as a unit. • One in which the partners have positive connections to t |
| What is an "unhealthy relationship" in CBCT? | • Characterized by a scarcity of positive outcomes available for each partner and deficits in communication and problem solving skills. • Differences in individual and relational needs: i. Relationship-focused needs ii. Autonomy iii. Control iv. Ac |
| Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) History | o It was started as Traditional Behavioral Couple Therapy (TBCT), but they realized it needed an additional component of acceptance to be effective. |
| Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) Founders(s) | Neil Jacobson Andrew Christensen |
| Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) Technique Categories | acceptance strategies tolerance strategies change strategies o Primarily the therapist will use acceptance strategies. If a couple appears to be stuck the therapist may then use tolerance strategies to help them move on. Often acceptance and to |
| Object Relations Couple Therapy Primary Ideas/Theory | In a mutual reciprocal process, husband & wife connect according to unconscious complementarity of object relations. Projection - wife sees in spouse qualities (whether true or not) denied or overvalued in her self Projective identification - sp |
| Object Relations Couple Therapy Goals | • To recognize and rework the couple's mutual projective and introjective identifications. • To improve the couple's contextual holding capacity so that the partners can provide for each other's needs for attachment and autonomy, and developmental prog |
| Transgenerational Couple Therapy Differentiation Definition | The ability to experience difference, the self as separate although in relation to everyone else. |
| Narrative Couples Therapy Founder(s) | Michael White David Epston (based his work on Bateson's) |
| Narrative Couples Therapy Role of Therapist | Facilitate relevant and focused conversations/progress through questions, reflection, etc. Externalize the problem. Help couples understand that they are not the problem. The problem is the problem. |
| Narrative Couples Therapy Goals | Rather than setting "goals", which can be limiting, narrative therapy helps people live out "stories" in their lives that are beneficial/satisfying to their life. "Goal setting" in narrative therapy is referred to as "projects" or "directions in life" |
| Solution-Focused Couple Therapy Founder(s) | • Steve de Shazer • Insoo Kim Berg |
| Solution-Focused Couple Therapy Primary Ideas/Theory | • Steve de Shazer viewed Solution-Focused Therapy as more of an explanation of a specific way to talk with clients rather than a theory. • Present-Future Focused • Use language to help client change their perceptions which they believe will change t |
| Solution-Focused Couple Therapy Techniques | • "Focuses on collaborative conversations between clients and therapist rather than therapists doing something to the clients." (Therapist does not take the expert role.) • Questions that "invite clients to organize and focus their attention, energy, a |
| Brief Strategic Couple Therapy Founder(s) | Richard Fisch John Weakland Paul Watzlawick their colleagues at the MRI |
| Brief Strategic Couple Therapy Roles of the Therapist | - The essential role is to persuade at least one participant in the couple to do "less of the same" solution that keeps the complaint going. - The therapist works with the "customer," or person most concerned about the problem. They might not even wor |
| Brief Strategic Couple Therapy Techniques | - Framing suggestions in terms compatible with clients' own language and metaphor - Telling the client to go slow - Going slow comes from the idea that clients are more likely to cooperate with small suggestions, and it relaxes the sense of urgency |
| Structural Couple Therapy Founder(s) | Salvador Minuchin |
| Structural Couple Therapy View of Couple | family subsystem |
| Structural Couple Therapy Functional Couple | •Boundary that is rigid enough to define them as a couple, but permeable enough to allow for adaptive exchange with environment • Tolerate and encourage partners differences • View differences as a resource instead of a threat |
| Structural Couple Therapy Dysfunctional Couple | • Boundary that is diffuse or rigid. • Does not behave as subsystem, but as a world of their own, resulting in functional and emotional overload • Differences are either not tolerated, or become warring positions, which deprives couple of resources. |
| Integrative Couple Therapy (ICT) Problem Development | o Marital dysfunction springs from both partners' inability to see themselves and each other as whole persons; conflict prevents awareness of anxiety towards relational intimacy o Conflict happens when the rules of the relationship which are vital to e |
| My Model of Choice So Far and How I Would Use Theories/Principles/Techniques | Solution Focused Therapy • Focus on Solutions rather than problems • Do not believe that it is always necessary to understand the problem in order to find a solution • Present-Future Focused • "Focuses on collaborative conversations between clients a |
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