A 20‐Year Review of Common Factors Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carissa D'Aniello ◽  
Stephen T. Fife
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Marriage And Family Therapy ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Marriage And Family

Imago Relationship Therapy Alignment With Marriage and Family Common Factors

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-410
Author(s):  
Wade Luquet ◽  
Lamar Muro
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Marriage And Family Therapy ◽  
Couples Therapy ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Treatment Models ◽  
Relationship Therapy ◽  
Imago Relationship Therapy

Marriage and family common factors are used to understand the curative elements in marriage and family therapy (MFT) models of treatment. Sprenkle, Davis, and Blow identified four common factors of well-established MFT treatment models. This article deconstructs Imago relationship therapy (IRT), a widely used model of couples therapy, for the purpose of determining whether IRT utilizes the four curative common factors of MFT in its theory and practice. The analysis indicates that IRT does utilize the four broad common factors of MFT shared by other well-established models of MFT in addition to its narrow model factors that make it unique.

Strengthening the Systemic Ties that Bind: Integrating Common Factors into Marriage and Family Therapy Curricula

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli A. Karam ◽  
Adrian J. Blow ◽  
Douglas H. Sprenkle ◽  
Sean D. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Marriage And Family Therapy ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Marriage And Family
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