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Popularized methodologies
Although results are almost certainly significantly better when professional guidance is
utilized (see especially family therapy), numerous attempts at making the methodologies
available generally via self help books and other media are available.

License restrictions can vary considerably from state to state. Contact information about
licensing boards in the United States are provided by the Association of Marital and
Family Regulatory Boards.

About Joel And Kathy Davisson :As well as the above, the basic principles for a
couples therapist also include:
* To identify the repetitive, negative interaction cycle as a pattern.
* To understand the source of reactive emotions that drive the pattern.
* To expand and re-organize key emotional responses in the relationship.
* To facilitate a shift in partners' interaction to new patterns of interaction.
* To create new and positively bonding emotional events in the relationship
* To foster a secure attachment between partners.

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Research on therapy
The most researched approach to couples therapy is behavioral couples therapy. It is a
well established treatment for marital discord This form of therapy has evolved to what is
now called integrative behavioral couples therapy. Integrative behavioral couples therapy
appears to be effective for 69% of couples in treatment, while the traditional model was
effective for 50-60% of couples .

Family therapists tend to be more interested in the maintenance and/or solving of


problems rather than in trying to identify a single cause. Some families may perceive
cause-effect analyses as attempts to allocate blame to one or more individuals, with the
effect that for many families a focus on causation is of little or no clinical utility.

Joel And Kathy Davisson Seo : Therapy interventions usually focus on relationship
patterns rather than on analyzing impulses of the unconscious mind or early childhood
trauma of individuals as a Freudian therapist would do - although some schools of family
therapy, for example psychodynamic and intergenerational, do consider such individual
and historical factors (thus embracing both linear and circular causation) and they may
use instruments such as the genogram to help to elucidate the patterns of relationship
across generations.

About Joel And Kathy Davisson Since issues of interpersonal conflict, power, control,
values, and ethics are often more pronounced in relationship therapy than in individual
therapy, there has been debate within the profession about the different values that are
implicit in the various theoretical models of therapy and the role of the therapist’s own
values in the therapeutic process, and how prospective clients should best go about
finding a therapist whose values and objectives are most consistent with their own.

About Joel And Kathy Davisson Research on therapy


The most researched approach to couples therapy is behavioral couples therapy. It is a
well established treatment for marital discord This form of therapy has evolved to what is
now called integrative behavioral couples therapy. Integrative behavioral couples therapy
appears to be effective for 69% of couples in treatment, while the traditional model was
effective for 50-60% of couples .

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