Increasing Responsibility, Safety, and Trust Through a Dialogical Approach: A Case Study in Couple Therapy for Psychological Abusive Behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berta Vall ◽  
Jaakko Seikkula ◽  
Aarno Laitila ◽  
Juha Holma ◽  
Luis Botella
Keyword(s):  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Dialogical Approach ◽  
Abusive Behavior

Emotionally Focused Therapy in the Context of Addictions

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-340
Author(s):  
Kara Fletcher ◽  
Heather MacIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Couple Functioning ◽  
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy ◽  
Emotionally Focused

Substance addictions represent a serious social problem in North America, negatively impacting family relationships and couple functioning. Research is increasingly considering the potential for couple therapy as a model within this context. Issues presented by an addiction can be exacerbated by other issues present in a couple relationship. Using a case study design, this research study explored a proposed theoretical extension of emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) in the context of substance addictions. Four couples were recruited, and an analysis of the therapeutic process and their experiences is presented. Comparisons between the normative EFT treatment model and the theoretical extension are made and recommendations are provided for further adaptations to the model. Results from this study indicate the important place of couple therapy in addiction treatment.

scholarly journals Studying Nonverbal Synchrony in Couple Therapy—Observing Implicit Posture and Movement Synchrony

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Nyman-Salonen ◽  
Anu Tourunen ◽  
Virpi-Liisa Kykyri ◽  
Markku Penttonen ◽  
Jukka Kaartinen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Movement Synchrony ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Nonverbal Synchrony

AbstractResearch on nonverbal synchrony (movement coordination) in psychotherapy has recently attracted increased attention. Nonverbal synchrony has been shown to relate to the therapeutic alliance and outcome. However, research on nonverbal synchrony in couple therapy remains scarce. In this study, we examined the therapy process of one couple in detail and created a coding scheme to depict posture and movement synchrony. In this case study, we found that the relationship between nonverbal synchrony and the therapeutic alliance was complex. During the therapy process, the amount of nonverbal synchrony varied, as did the participants’ evaluations of the alliance. In couple therapy nonverbal synchrony could affect both the persons involved in it and the persons observing it. In one of the sessions, almost all the synchronies occurred between the female client and one of the therapists, and all except the female client evaluated the alliance to be weaker. In this case study, there were two therapists present, and the co-therapists’ synchrony was found to be important for the male client’s evaluations of the alliance. When there was more synchrony between the therapists, he evaluated the alliance to be stronger. Interestingly, the co-therapists’ synchrony seemed to peak in sessions that succeeded sessions with a weaker alliance, as if the therapists were implicitly making a joint effort to strengthen the alliance. A short episode from one session is given to illustrate the findings. Our coding scheme enables studying nonverbal synchrony (posture and movement synchrony) in couple therapy and combining the research results to other temporally precise data obtained from the sessions. More research is needed to validate the method.

Individual Treatment for a Latino Partner Abusive Man: A Case Study

Partner Abuse ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christauria G. Welland
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Individual Treatment ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Relationship Skills ◽  
Abusive Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Theories ◽  
The Individual

This case study examines the individual treatment of a 35-year-old Latino man of Mexican descent, living in Southern California at the time of his therapy. The primary treatment goal for this client was the eradication of violent and abusive behavior to his wife of 13 years, from whom he was divorced in the course of our work together, and to improve his self-knowledge and relationship skills for future intimate relationships. A secondary goal was to help him guide his children through the pain of the divorce and to establish a closer relationship with them. Using the treatment model Sin Golpes (Welland & Wexler, 2007), based on self-psychology and cognitive behavioral theories, our work focused on psychoeducation regarding partner abuse and human rights; self-management strategies; awareness of the connection between negative cognitions, anger, and abuse; exploration and transformation of gender roles, parenting skills, relationship skills, and the integration of spiritual teachings; and prevention of future violence. The client made significant progress and has not relapsed into partner violence in the past 5 years.

Conjoint Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaslean J. LaTaillade ◽  
Norman B. Epstein ◽  
Carol A. Werlinich
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Treatment As Usual ◽  
Couple And Family Therapy ◽  
Abusive Behavior ◽  
Conjoint Treatment

The purpose of this article is to describe the rationale and methods of couple-based interventions designed to treat and prevent intimate partner violence. Cognitive, affective, and behavioral individual and couple risk factors for violence are reviewed, as are therapeutic concerns regarding the use of conjoint treatment. Current conjoint treatments that are intended to reduce the incidence of abusive behavior among couples in which one or both partners have engaged in forms of psychological and/or mild to moderate physical aggression, do not engage in battering or severe violence, and desire to improve their relationships and stay together are described. We focus on our Couples Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) that compares the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy procedures and treatment as usual at a university-based couple and family therapy clinic. Outcomes from the CAPP project and evaluations of the other programs demonstrate the potential of judiciously applied conjoint interventions for aggressive behavior in couple relationships.

A Case Study of Patriarchy and Slavery: The Hermeneutical Importance of Qurʾānic Assumptions in the Development of a Values-Based and Purposive Oriented Qurʾān-sunna Hermeneutic

Hawwa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adis Duderija
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Dialogical Approach ◽  
Islamic Legal Theory

Abstract It is the task of this paper to argue that the development of a new Qurʾān-sunna hermeneutic (and therefore Islamic legal theory) which hermeneutically privileges an ethico-religious and purposive approach to a Qurʾānic interpretation (based on ethically objectivist nature of ethical value) has the potential to engender a gender symmetrical Islamic law. In order for this to be achieved, it is argued further, that the hermeneutical importance of the mirroring of the various socio-cultural and ethico-moral assumptions prevalent in the Qurʾān’s revelatory milieu in the actual Qurʾānic text itself must be taken into account as evident in those passages pertaining to the patriarchal nature of socio-legal aspects of gender dynamics and existence of slavery, especially female concubinage. Additionally, in the first part of the paper, I briefly discuss one reason why I consider the classical Islamic scholarship failed to explore the hermeneutical significance of these assumptions and therefore did not engender a Qurʾānic hermeneutic and Islamic legal theory that hermeneutically privileges an ethico-religious and purposive based approach to interpretation of Qurʾān and sunna. I refer to this process as a hermeneutical shift from a Qurʾān-sunna interpretive dialogical approach to that of a sunna-ḥadith episteme.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy terhadap Pola Asuh Coparenting Orangtua

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nurul Fadhilah Khair
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy ◽  
The Family

Parents play an important role in the family, while the second role plays in parenting is very much needed by the child's development. Child's psychological development will be much better, if both require joint care or coparenting. The pattern of joint care or coparenting is mutual support and act as a team of mutual support, which is carried out by both parties. The main concept of coparenting care here is second, interconnected or mutually supportive in all forms of attitudes, relationships and teaching in parenting practices. This study uses a single case study design with A-B-A model in which this research method is deemed suitable for the assessment of changes in therapy and applied therapy in couples. The results of the study showed a change in coparenting scores in each pair.

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