Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy On The Feelings That Impact Behavior

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

On 02/27/2016, I worked in dual diagnosis and had the opportunity to communicate with one of the patients. Her primary diagnosis is Major depression disorder and severe alcohol use disorder. During the initial phase, I introduced myself and told her that I would like to communicate with her. She was cooperative and made fair eye contact during our communication. I used nonverbal technique such as silence to give her enough time to think through a point. In addition, I leaned forward, and used active listening observe the patient’s nonverbal behaviors, understand and reflect on the patient’s verbal message, and to detect things the patient said that may need more clarification( Halter, 2014, p. 152). Furthermore, I used restating technique

Participants. The study used previously collected pre-treatment data from a 5-year longitudinal study comparing the effectiveness of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) and Traditional Behavioral Couple Therapy (TBCT) (Christensen et al., 2004). Participants included 134 chronically and seriously distressed heterosexual couples seeking couple therapy in Los Angeles (71 couples) and Seattle (63 couples). To be included in the study, couples had to be legally married and cohabiting, be seeking couple therapy, and meet criteria for serious and stable marital distress based on measures of marital satisfaction administered at three different time points prior to the intervention. Additionally, both partners had to be between the ages of

There are a series of steps involved in integrated systemic couples therapy (Goldman & Greenberg, 1992). First, the therapist and the couple define the issue. A negative cycle is determined, but not necessarily by the couple; the therapist could determine the negative cycle instead. The therapist and couple come together to restructure that negative cycle, and try to redefine the problem with a positive spin. The important aspect of integrated systemic therapy is that the therapist encourages the couple to progress at their own pace (Goldman & Greenberg, 1992). Restraint is a key component because it allows the couples examine their actions, as opposed to rushing into

Emotion focused family therapy by Leslie Greenberg and Susan Johnson address an attachment based theoretical orientation. Emotion focused therapy focuses on emotion as communication and focuses on one person in the couple utilizing defenses as a response to their partner when their attachment needs are not being met (Tobin, 2016). Emotion focused therapy also addresses interventions, which focus on elements related to the relationship and marital satisfaction (Tobin, 2016). Treatment in emotion-focused therapy also seeks to help couples understand their feelings of isolation deprivation, and loneliness (Tobin, 2016). The focus is also on the interactions between the couple that could be causing distress in the relationship.

Marriage and Family Therapy is a brief solution-focused form of psychotherapy used to treat a wide array of problems ranging from depression and marital problems, to alcoholism and schizophrenia, in a couple and family system context. Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) are trained and licensed mental health professionals who are capable of diagnosing and treating mental and emotional disorders whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within those systems. They are required to have a master’s or doctoral degree with specialized marriage and family therapy training. The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) also requires MFT’s to have a minimum

This article gave great insight into the success rate of integrative behavioral couple therapy and emotion-focused therapy. It was based on research that was conducted on couples in therapy. The research showed that 70 percent of couples that received treatment were positively impacted. The research also indicated that couple therapy played a significant role in treating many disorders. The article showed that studies found marital distress to be associated with disorders such as anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders. This article took an in depth look at integrative behavioral couple therapy and emotion-focused therapy; two

and distressed and they will have difficulty with their emotions. When a couple struggles with connecting and communicating with one another they may be struggling due to their attachment style. When going to couples counseling they can learn skills and techniques to teach them to be emotional available and learn trust and commitment and improve their relationship and happiness.

Emotionally focused therapy is an intervention that is based on the love bound of couples and family members to be connected to improve their emotional attachment. According to Good therapy “Emotionally focused therapy has been expanded and developed as a type of family therapy. The approach has proven successful in increasing attachment and a sense of belonging among members of families. Accessing the emotions underlying interaction patterns between family members is a key goal in emotionally focused therapy for families.” Therefore, family members that participate in emotionally focused therapy identify and express the emotions and conflict the family is experiencing. Emotional focused therapy also helps the family developed and accepted,

For each of the members to have a healthy relationship with one another, they have to do start with themselves first; having a good self-esteem is important.

The points I learned about behavioral couples therapy are clients need to change their own behaviors and not others, help clients understand goals, find out what changes do they want to make, and be an expert on what behaviors will work and which behaviors will not after experimenting them in the real world. What stands out to me are that clients focus on changing their own behaviors. Additionally, counselors should identify and maximize their clients strengths. I thought that not spending time on how clients learned behaviors, but understanding what are their learned behaviors was the most beneficial part of the model. What I might consider in my own work was when Dr. Stuart was focusing on the here and now and not the past. I understood what

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

The Behavior Marital Couples Therapy will focus on providing communication skills training, involving the use of instruction, role-playing, and behavior rehearsal and exercising a certain behavior. In this way the couple will be guided step by step and motivated to work on their communication until they feel like they understand each other. This will be possible only under the direct observation of couple interactions. In the presented case study, the mother together with the couple could rehearse how they could have a decent and progressive

“Emotions! Emotions! They’re our devotion!” would be the chant uttered by therapists who align themselves with emotion-focused therapy. Derived from both the humanistic and experiential traditions and relying upon the client-centered approach, emotion-focused therapy is a time-limited, “process experiential psychotherapy” that regards emotions as the primary vehicle of change (Watson, Goldman, & Greenberg, 2011, p. 269). The effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy has been demonstrated through randomized clinical trials comparing emotion-focused therapy with alternative methodologies, such as “client-centered therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy” (Watson et al., 2011, p. 269). Analyzing emotion-focused therapy from a critical framework illuminates its “range of convenience” and the additional mechanisms that could contribute to a client’s progress and outcome.

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