Case Study : Once My Lovely

I also chose the article “Passionate Marriage” By David Schnarch. Because of the couple’s disconnection, they each took the other’s criticism so personally. They blamed one another for their lack of intimacy, when, in fact, both were at fault. They each lacked the knowledge of their partner’s true self and the maturity to be open to the other’s needs and wants. Once they began to work with the therapist, they were able to discover their true selves and understand their behaviors towards one another. You were correct in saying that once they were able to build on their emotional connections with one another, their intimacy was no longer an issue.

Gurman, A. S. (2008). Clinical handbook of couple therapy (4th ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

To start off, Gloria goes into her session to pull out a cigarette at the very beginning which indicates that she's feeling stressed and nervous. She then says “right away I’m scared”. At that point, Perls is quetoning how scared she is when there is a smile on her face. The session then becomes even more confrontational as it seems that Perls is picking at her but then Gloria responds with acts that show she is opening up. Looking at Gloria’s actions, it is clear that she has become more straightforward in confronting her problems since Person Centered Therapy. During the confrontational session, it seems to be a power struggle between Gloria and Fritz but at the end comes down to Gloria talking about her husband and the amount of confidence it seems like Gloria has rather than what she actually is able to use when facing her “superiors”. Gloria’s problem in this session is the level of confidence that Gloria has seeing how constantly Perls brings up actions and characteristics that Gloria is portraying as Perls constantly calls her a phony and provokes her to take control of the situation. I think that breaking part of this session was both when Perls gets on her level as another 30 year old person, and when she is able to pick on him and when Perls ask Gloria to choke him as well as telling her to demand respect. These exercises are able to open Gloria up and and I think pushes

During treatment Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT) and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) will use feedback sessions to help assess how the couple is doing in a positive way (Gurman, 2008). Both CBCT and IBCT both use conflict and emotional expressions as avenues for couples to express their affection and understanding for one another (Gurman, 2008). Both CBCT and IBCT also have the same value system of creating a general closeness and intimacy between partners (Gurman, 2008). Regardless of the differences, the two therapies have the general

The topic that I have chosen to discuss throughout this paper is Managing and Resolving Conflicts in a Relationship. This topic is very important to me simply because, I personally see a lot of relationships failing, including some of mines due to lack of resolving and managing conflicts correctly. By the end of this paper I hope that I have helped the reader understand and eliminate any conflicts that confront their everyday lives.

Jeff Clarified to Jan how Kim felt at home. He gave specifics Kim was angry and has a huge amount of sorrow about the alcohol, and Kim has many tears fall. Jeff also, went on to rational thoughts about bringing the baby over to the house. He explained in a very compassionate manner that Kim and I both did not want it to be the same as the birthday. Jan looked surprised at what Jeff had believed. The thoughts that he spoke about Kim, appeared to impact Jan. Jan stayed and continued to listen.

Cognitive behavioral therapy partner has focused on the detailed analysis of everyday conflicts that can lead to the breakdown of the relationship; it has been raised how problems arise, and how they are maintained. It has identified a feature which is associated with them generally, a predominance of negative interactions on positive. With the obvious aim of achieving an effective intervention, it has raised the ways to overcome them focusing on increasing the exchange of positive behaviors and improving communication and problem solving.

Gottman couples therapy is an integrative approach that focuses on emotion, behavior, cognitive, and narrative approaches with in a systemic framework (Gottman & Gottman, 2013). This therapy is based on extensive research about how stable relationships work and how unstable relationships fail. The goal of Gottman therapy is to help couple process their inevitable fights, moments of miscommunication, or hurt feelings and to enable them to repair the relationship (Gottman & Gottman, 2013). Moreover, the goal is to “heal the wounds crated by regrettable incidents” (Gottman & Gottman, 2013, p. 95).

The two therapy techniques that are being questioned this week are Emotional Focused Couple Therapy and Hope Focused Couple Therapy. Both techniques are effective in marital and couple therapy and both systems can be utilized effectively, however, I think comparable to other techniques the results depend on the people and the therapist. Hope focused therapy is centered around the brain and how couples perceive where their marriage is and where they want it to go. Watson (2017) states, “The approach is oriented around hopefulness and strengths, helping couples assess their strengths and create a positive narrative around them and their relationship to combat the discouragement and hopelessness that couples typically bring into counseling,”

The therapy is identified as being brief and seeks to observe family interactions, looking at the system and, the goal is to get every family member to take part in the session and to highlight the specific issue that need to be addressed. In out case study, the mother, and the couple should take part in the therapy, because they are all part of the conflict. In this way the therapist, the couple, and the mother can work together to come out with goals to define the parameters and fix the problem.

When conflict occurs within a partnership there is oftentimes a withdrawal from intimacy within the relationship before the conflict is resolved and intimacy can occur again. This is known as the intimacy-conflict cycle. In Little Miss Sunshine the parents, Richard and Sheryl, tend to manage their dissatisfactions with cyclic alternation responses, which are instances when one of the partners voices a complaint that prompts the other’s response in order to resolve their conflict (Galvin, et al., 219). This is seen very

I enjoyed reading your interpretation of the Wilson’s case study, and your integrative approach of combining Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) with Relationship Enhancement (RE) skills. One of the things I struggle with is the notion of suggestion from the counselor’s role. While I certainly agree that it is best for individuals to make realizations on their own, I often consider that many people, particularly struggling couples, are seeking counseling because they just don’t know what to do. When utilizing RE, counselors help couples build skills, such as communication, conflict resolution, and empathetic (Wetcheler & Hecker, 2015). Hinkle, Radomski, and Decker (2015) identified experiential activities that counselors can incorporate

A counselor may use experiential approach in couple’s therapy to bring about a healthy emotional development in the relationship. For example, a couple comes into counseling because of intimacy issues. Using the experiential approach, the counselor can bring light to the couples emotions and each of them will learn to accept one another needs (Wetchler & Hecker, 2015). The strength in this circumstance is both individuals in the couple will feel secure, intimate, and connected (Wetchler & Hecker, 2015). A limitation in this circumstance is if the couple does not accept the feelings

The focus is on the disputes between two people that seem to have a stalled relationship and little hope of resolving it. The treatment goals contain aiding the client in identifying and understanding the nature of the dispute, deciding on a plan of action, and the beginning of the reassessment of the expectations of the relationship. Some feelings associated with interpersonal dispute may be anger and or guilt. In Laura’s case, she is experiencing both emotions when it comes to having to take on the responsibility of caring for her again

Due to the extremely sensitive nature of marital and family therapy, it is imperative that therapists engage in the ethical, competent treatment of their clients. There are three aspects of marriage and family therapy research that makes it unique from other research fields: 1) multiple family members are involved; 2) it involves extremely sensitive information; and 3) it is performed in conjunction with therapy. According to Hohmann-Marriott (2001), because of these aspects as well as the researcher’s responsibility to conduct