Talking About Versus Talking With: an experiential self of the therapist exercise for family therapy training
This article describes an experiential self of the therapist exercise for use in family therapy training. It provides guidelines for instructors to integrate the activity into their courses including step‐by‐step directions, examples of processing questions, and potential readings to accompany the activity. The Talking About Versus Talking With exercise was designed to help family therapy students have a felt sense of some of the differences between individual and relational therapy. It provides trainers with a way to teach therapists in training about clients’ experiences in relational therapy where they talk about ...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - April 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael E. Sude, Laura Eubanks Gambrel Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Therapist implementation and parent experiences of the three phases of Functional Family Therapy
Despite the widespread adoption of manualized model‐driven approaches to family therapy, little is known about how therapists implement and families experience the specific guiding practices involved in individual models. The aim of the present study was to use a qualitative methodology to describe therapist implementation and family experiences of the three phases of Functional Family Therapy (FFT). Five FFT therapists and four parents of families who had been treated by those therapists were interviewed and thematic analysis performed to analyse the data. Results suggest that both common factor and model‐specific tre...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - April 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dan Hartnett, Alan Carr, Elena Hamilton, Thomas L. Sexton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Couple therapy following prostate cancer surgery: a manual to guide treatment
Prostate cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK. Ten‐year survival is high; consequently a service priority is addressing survivorship issues to support men living with the longer‐term consequences of the disease and its treatments. This paper presents a treatment manual which has been tested with couples following prostate cancer surgery to decrease distress in sexual functioning, and improve relational functioning. The content of the manual is described alongside a fictionalized case vignette that illustrates the content and process of sessions. The paper presents the RIPSToP Model (RelatIonal PSychosexual ...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liz Forbat, Jane Robertson, Phillip McNamee Tags: Original Paper Source Type: research
Couples’ depression and relationship satisfaction: examining the moderating effects of demand/withdraw communication patterns
This study used systemic perspectives and actor and partner interdependence model to examine actor and partner effects of depression on couples’ relationship satisfaction in sixty‐three clinical couples. We also examined if a demand/withdraw communication pattern served a unique communication context that modified the impacts of depression on relationship satisfaction. Couples participated in a treatment‐as‐usual situation. The results showed that male depression had a negative impact on female relationship satisfaction. Males and females had different perceptions of male demand/female withdraw behaviours and it cr...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pei‐Fen Li, Lee N. Johnson Tags: Original Paper Source Type: research
Frank M. Dattilio, Cognitive‐Behavioural Therapy with Couples and Families: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians. Guilford Press, 2010, 282 pp. 978‐1606234532. £24.00
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Source: Journal of Family Therapy - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Why are couples fighting? A need frustration perspective on relationship conflict and dissatisfaction
The present study investigated whether partners’ frustration of relational needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness was associated with relationship dissatisfaction and conflict (frequency, topics, communication patterns). Self‐report measures were completed by 230 committed heterosexual couples. APIM and regression analyses revealed that (1) need frustration is associated with how dissatisfied partners are with their relationship, how frequently they initiate conflict, and how they communicate during conflicts, but not with the number of conflict topics; (2) relatedness‐frustration matters most, whereas only ...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gaëlle Vanhee, Gilbert M. D. Lemmens, Lara Stas, Tom Loeys, Lesley L. Verhofstadt Tags: Original Paper Source Type: research
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Ros Draper, An Introduction to Theory and Practice (4th edn). Berkshire: Open University Press, McGraw Hill Education, 2015, pp. 463. ISBN‐10: 0335264549. ISBN‐13: 9780335264544. eISBN: 9780335264551. €33.59/£23.67
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Source: Journal of Family Therapy - March 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alan Carr Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Emotion talk in the context of young people self‐harming: facing the feelings in family therapy
This article describes the use of emotion talk in the context of using a manualised approach to family therapy where the presenting problem is self‐harm. Whilst we understand that there is an internal aspect to emotion, we also consider emotions to be socially purposeful, culturally constructed and interactional. We found that within the presenting families, negative emotions were often talked about as located within the young person. Through using ‘emotion talk’ (Fredman, ) in deconstructing and tracking emotions and exploring how emotions connected to family‐of‐origin and cultural contexts, we developed an inte...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alice Rogers, Petra Schmidt Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Couple emotional experience: effects of attachment anxiety in low and high structure couple interactions
This study used data from 63 heterosexual couples to investigate the effects of attachment anxiety and how they relate to emotional experience (i.e. psychophysiological distress and feelings towards a partner) in the context of two therapy‐like conditions (low and high structure). We examined both the effect of an individual's anxiety on his/her own emotional experience (actor effects) and on the partner's experience (partner effects). During both interactional conditions, female partners of men higher in attachment anxiety experienced greater psychophysiological distress. In addition, men and women higher in attachment ...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ryan B. Seedall, Karen S. Wampler Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Using interviews to understand parent and family perspectives of the August 2011 London riots
This article presents findings from interviews with London parents and families, to explore their perspective of the August 2011 London riots in the UK. This article is based on a PhD thesis where the researcher adopted a critical position on constructions of parent‐blaming within political rhetoric. A separate paper (forthcoming, 2016) presents clinical implications developed from the research findings. The research was influenced by systemic and narrative therapy approaches. Nine parents and three young people, from five families across three London boroughs, were interviewed together to explore how they constructed th...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yvanna Deeny Coopoosamy Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Childhood abuse and family obligation in middle adulthood: findings from the MIDUS II National Survey
This study examined associations between reported histories of childhood abuse and later reports of obligation towards their family of origin from a family life cycle perspective. Data from this study included a subsample of 725 single and married, English‐speaking adult participants (57.1% female, M age = 49.8 years) from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II): Biomarker Project. Findings suggest that childhood abuse impacts later family obligation in many ways, and that different categories of abuse (e.g. emotional, neglect, physical and sexual) and severity levels (e.g. none, le...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Oshrin Parker, Candice Maier, Armeda Wojciak Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Constructing a SHIFT adherence measure (SAM): the development of a family therapy integrity measure for the SHIFT trial
We were tasked with establishing treatment integrity for the SHIFT trial. In this article we discuss the concepts of treatment adherence and competence; arguing that the design of the trial, in particular the flexibility of the manual and the training and supervision of qualified systemic therapists, guarantees some level of treatment integrity. Despite this we decided, on the basis of a systematically informed literature review, that a post hoc evaluation of therapy tapes was in line with best practice. Our literature review found no measures that were appropriate for the needs of the trial, so we used the literature to g...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ciara Masterson, Christina Barker, David Jackson, Paula Boston Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Validation of 28 and 15 item versions of the SCORE family assessment questionnaire with adult mental health service users
This study aimed to investigate psychometric properties of two short versions of the SCORE with a sample drawn exclusively from adult mental health services. Data were collected from 199 service users attending inpatient and outpatient adult mental health services in the south‐east of Ireland. Both instruments had good internal consistency reliability. They also showed construct and criterion validity, correlating with measures of global functioning, service need, and childhood trauma. The 28 and 15‐item versions of the SCORE are brief psychometrically robust family assessment instruments which may be used to evaluate ...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kevin O'Hanrahan, Megan Daly White, Alan Carr, Paul Cahill, Mairi Keenleyside, Mark Fitzhenry, Elizabeth Harte, Jennifer Hayes, Hester Noonan, Helen O'Shea, Avril McCullagh, Shaun McGuinness, Catherine Rodgers, Neal Whelan, Noel Sheppard, Stephen Browne Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Family Therapy - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Erratum Source Type: research
Gender in family therapy education: reflections of cis‐females
Conclusions: In summary, addressing gender‐related topics in the classroom had impacted students intra‐personally and interpersonally. As they processed internally, they began to reshape their relationships. Additionally, they planned to become agents of change in therapy room.
Practitioner points
Therapists recognize how gender‐related power differences, gender roles in societal and familial systems, and the ways unequal gender relations affect relationships
Therapists address not only the position of women in their cultures but also how their social environment reproduces this positioning within its own ranks
Educa...
Source: Journal of Family Therapy - January 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Karen Mui‐Teng Quek, Christy Eppler, Martha L. Morgan Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
