Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4338-2918-5
Verlag: American Psychological Association

Sonstiges, Englisch, 0 Seiten, DVD video, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 88 g

Reihe: Relationships Video Series

For couples undergoing marital distress, common interactional cycles between partners, such as criticizing and withdrawing, can obstruct the emotional engagement needed for secure bonding and partner validation.

An important key in couple therapy is recognizing these patterns as they are occurring and from within a highly validating therapeutic relationship, exploring the underlying, negative emotional and interactional states, and then transforming them into more adaptive cycles that support healthier mutual understanding and bonding.

In this video program, Dr. Rhonda N. Goldman demonstrates her approach to therapy in two sessions, each with a different couple experiencing a conflict marked by a pursuing and distancing cycle and covering deeper emotional wounds. By forming a strong emotional connection with the partners and applying the emotion-focused therapy method that integrates strategies from client-centered, Gestalt, and systemic therapies, Dr. Goldman seeks to help the couples with their unresolved emotional patterns and encourage them toward healthy, positive relational changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldman, Rhonda N.

Über Autor(innen)

Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD, is a professor of clinical psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Schaumburg and an affiliate therapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she works with both individuals and couples. Dr. Goldman conducts workshops on emotion-focused therapy for both couples and individuals in countries throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, she practices, teaches, and conducts research on emotional processes and outcomes in couples and individual therapy and has written on an array of other topics such as empathy, vulnerability, depression, and case formulation. She is the recipient of the 2011 Carmi Harari Early Career Award from APA Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology).