Week 3 6456 Emotional Focused Couples Counseling Readings Gurman A S Lebow 2023
Week 3 6456 Emotional Focused Couples Counseling
Readings
• Gurman, A. S., Lebow, J. L., Snyder, D. K. (2015). Clinical handbook of couple therapy. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. o Chapter 4, “Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy”
• Williams, M. (2012). Couples counseling: A step by step guide for therapists. Boston, MA: Viale Publishing. o Chapter 4, “Communication Skills”
• • Allan, R., & Johnson, S. M. (2017). Conceptual and application issues: Emotionally Focused Therapy with gay male
couples. Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 16(4), 286- 305.
• • Bell, C. A., Denton, W. H., Martin, G., Coffey, A. D., Hanks, C.
O., Cornwell, C. S., & Priest, J. B. (2018). Learning emotionally focused couple therapy: Four clinicians’ perspectives. Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 17(1), 61-78.
• • Carlson, M. W., Oed, M. M., & Bermudez, J. M. (2017). Satir’s Communication Stances and Pursue–Withdraw Cycles: An Enhanced Emotionally Focused Therapy Framework of Couple Interaction. Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 16(3), 253-270.
• • Schmidt, C. D., & Gelhert, N. C. (2017). Couples therapy and empathy: An evaluation of the impact of imago relationship therapy on partner empathy levels. The Family Journal, 25(1), 23-30.
Media • You can google has well
Humanistic/Experiential Therapy:
• • Psychotherapy.net. (Publisher). (n.d.-c). Experiential therapy
[Video file].
Retrieved from the Walden Library Databases.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 hours.
• • Psychotherapy.net. (Publisher). (n.d.-d). Satir family therapy
[Video file].
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 hours.
Emotionally Focused Therapy:
• • Psychotherapy.net. (Publisher). (n.d.-b). Emotionally focused couples therapy [Video file]. You can google has well
Retrieved from the Walden Library Databases.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 hours.
Discussion:
Each theory you examine in this course has its own framework for addressing client needs and its own set of theory-based interventions. As with any purely theoretical basis, implementation in real life may require adjustments. Select one of the theories demonstrated in the media this week (either humanistic, experiential, or emotional focused therapy [EFT]), and consider the challenges you may face when integrating this theory with your own theoretical orientation. Then, think about how you might mitigate these challenges.
Theory Integration
Post a brief explanation of one challenge you may encounter if you attempted to integrate the theory you selected with your lens of couples counseling in your future professional practice. Then, explain how you might mitigate this challenge.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources.
Assignment:
The theories you studied last week target patterns of behaviors, but they also incorporate thoughts and feelings in the moment and over time. You continue your application of theories to couple and family counseling by examining the systemic-emotional aspects of relationships, the patterns of interaction between couples and families, and the meaning associated with those interactions.
For this Assignment, you again watch media of counselors demonstrating counseling, this time using humanistic/experiential and emotionally-focused theories. As you develop treatment plans based on this week’s theories, ask yourself how you recognize emotion in the relational dynamics of the couple or family. Also, consider how you might know emotional changes have occurred and how you would measure progress.