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Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Attachment Theory

By Jim Crawley and Jan Grant. Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 166KB]
Emotionally focused therapy for couples (EFTC) is an important framework for couples therapy. It provides an integrative model, drawing upon experiential, systems and attachment theory to understand the dynamics of the couple relationship and to describe the therapeutic process. The aim of this paper is to ask how EFTC uses attachment theory, and whether it draws as fully as it can upon the richness of that theory to inform the process of therapy. This is set in the context of the evolving importance of attachment theory for therapeutic work.

The Critical Component of Cognitive Restructuring in Couples Therapy: A Case Study

By Frank M. Dattilio. Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 79KB]
This case study is offered as an example of how cognitive-behavioral strategies, namely, cognitive restructuring of couples' schemas and the use of specific homework assignments, may be integrated into the course of couple therapy. The article suggests that all therapeutic modalities, regardless of their theoretical orientation, embrace some form of cognitive restructuring and behavioural instruction as a primary agent of change. Cognitive restructuring is highlighted in particular as a critical component of treatment. Michelle Webster, who practices Emotionally Focused Therapy, responds to Frank Dattilio, and he then replies.

'I Thought We Came for Therapy!' 'Autobiography Sessions' in Couple Work

By Lê Hoang (Hoang thi Tuyet Lê). Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 205KB]
Each family builds up its own culture, which is partially invisible to each of its members, and so I invite my couple clients to write their own autobiography as part of a move towards self-differentiation. By emphasising difference in this way, I hope to allow my clients to feel OK about their discomfort, if any, with my ethnicity. I include vignettes to illustrate the process and client response.

In Touch with People, not Paper: An Interview with Doug Sotheren

By Cathy Zervos. Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 290KB]
Doug Sotheren has been conducting well-regarded training courses in relationship counseling for over 25 years, outside a university setting. In conversation with his former trainee Cathy Zervos, he presents his personal philosophy of counsellor training, emphasising the need for trainees to be 'in touch with people' rather than with theory. His whole course is experiential and based on the concept that training (including the way the co-trainers handle their own relationship in front of the group) should model the counselling process itself. He talks about his way of selecting students, and his views on counselling students out of the course where necessary. A long serving member of the AAMFC and former Editor of their Newsletter, Sotheren praises the AAMFC for requiring demonstrated competence in its members.

Five Useful Questions in Couples Therapy

By Michael Madden. Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 117KB]
This paper describes an approach to couples counseling in which the use of questioning is the major therapeutic intervention. It describes my journey from using questions to gather information to employing questions as clinical interventions in their own right. It notes that small questions can change the tone, mood and direction of the session, while bigger questions open up the social and moral context of couple life. Five examples of these 'bigger' questions are described. I conclude that successful questions open up new areas for discussion, avoid a narrow 'problem' focus, and stimulate yet more questions.

Explorations of Post-Divorce Experiences - Women's Reconstructions of Self

By Gertina van Schalkwyk. Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 162KB]
In this paper I explore from a social constructionist perspective the experiences of women when recovering from divorce. Women have a natural resilience and develop unique ways of coping with the experience of divorce through reconstructing themselves in their linguistic and cultural context. Divorced women often face dominant discourses that elicit intense internal discomfort, conflict, and loss of socially constructed self. This can result in their experiencing themselves as less meaningful and worthy as relational beings. I explore the processes by which four women, single again, have experienced these constraints and emerged as reconstructed selves. The discussion is based on qualitative analysis of textual data obtained from written accounts.

Case Knowledge: A Thing of the Past?

By Alistair Campbell. Volume 26 Issue Number 2. [PDF format - 61KB]
The art form of the case study is potentially so successful because it enables the author to address a multitude of phenomena from a multitude of perspectives. Of course, as a clinician I am predisposed to case descriptions because the narrative usually locates me well within my own comfort zone. Nevertheless, a well-written case can make the commonplace relevant.