Facts
Growth Areas
Effectiveness
Couples Therapy
New Directions & Beyond
100
This has been linked to heart disease and reduced immune system responsiveness.
What is loneliness?
100
One area that has expanded the scope of couples therapy.
What is gender and feminist perspectives?
100
Best predictor of success in Behavioral Marital Therapy(BMT).
What is initial level of distress?
100
Found to be more effective in reducing blame and promoting softer emotional expression is sessions than BMT.
What is IBCT(Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy)?
100
Defined in the dictionary as systematic investigation.
What is research?
200
These often occur together and reciprocally impact each other.
What is individual and relationship problems?
200
History of being and isolationist and as it grows it is becoming more integrative and incorporates research from other disciplines.
What is C&FT(Couples & Family Therapy)?
200
This has demonstrated better outcomes than medication in the treatment of depression both at the end of treatment and at follow-up.
What are couple interventions?
200
Found to work well for low income and low education level couples and for couple when husbands were rated as "inexpressive" by their spouse.
What is EFT(Emotionally Focused Therapy)?
200
Important focus for study and what interventions to use.
What is remarriage?
300
This has more than doubled since 1960.
What is proportion of children who do not live with their own two parents?
300
Involvement in therapy and collaboration in assignments.
What is most robust predictor of improvement in BMT?
300
Basic contraindication for most forms of couple intervention.
What is violence in the relationship?
300
Based on an exchange/negotiation model of adult intimacy and focuses on negotiating pleasing behaviors and teaching problem solving and communication skills.
What is Behavioral Marital Therapy approach?
300
Chapter 6 suggests that this is occurring in the field of couples therapy and it is much more earth shaking than the "quiet" of before...
What is a revolution?
400
The negative impact of this on close relationships is becoming more explicit.
What is chronic distress?
400
Key change events in EFT and are specific kinds of enactments in which the therapist structures new kinds of interactions that have been found in past research to promote affiliative emotional engagement and positive outcome.
What are softenings?
400
Best predictor of success in Emotionally Focused Therapy(EFT)
What is the female partner's belief that her partner still cares for her?
400
Based on an attachment model of adult intimacy and focuses on restructuring key emotional responses and interactions to create a more secure bond between partners.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy approach?
400
This is by no means the whole story with regards to intimate relationships.
What is conflict?
500
Epidemic of depression and anxiety due to the loss of a sense of community and belonging.
What is social capital?
500
More important than the content of dialogue or whether couples can problem solve particular issues.
What is affective tone?
500
Only 2 formally designated empirically supported treatments demonstrating success in the area of marital problems.
What is BMT(Behavioral Marital Therapy) and EFT(Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy?
500
This therapy helps couples look at the underlying “cause” or triggers to their problems. This might include, for example, traumatic events coming from an alcoholic or abusive family, or the divorce of one’s parents as a child.
What is Insight Oriented Marital Therapy?
500
This research approach is based on observations in therapy sessions to track, examine and analyze the phenomena of how clients experience their problems and key moments of change.
What is the "bottom up" approach?
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