PSY 473 Chapter 15: Ch15
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Couples therapy : professional counseling for improving a relationship, typically involving both partners and a trainedtherapist meeting weekly for several months. Address the communication problems and power struggles partners experience with thegoal of improving their relationships systems models. An approach to couples therapy that emphasizes the repetitive patterns of interaction that create tension between partners andunspoken rules and beliefs thatgovern those interactions. Reframing :technique in which couples therapist restates, relabels, or offers milder interpretation for a specific behavior or event so partners can understand it in a more positive andproductive light. Systems models emphasize changing unspoken rules and habits that create rigid patterns of interaction. An approach to couples therapy thatemphasizes behaviors observed between partners and perceptions and interpretations thatgive rise to these behaviors. Behavioral couples therapy(bcttform ofcouplestherapythat incorporatesthe principles of social learning theory, therapist defines theproblem in terms of specific behaviors, and clarifies the rewards and punishments that maintain these behaviors thus perpetrating the couple"s difficulties.
