Couple+Therapy

= Definition: = Therapy involving intimate partners in which behavior change or partners' emotional responses to each other or both are the focus of treatment. Gen Psych, Chapter 13, Pg. 413

= Examples: = Premarital sessions can help future spouses prepare for their life together. Couples who are considering divorce often consult with a couple therapist for help in effecting a reconciliation or moderating the effects of a divorce on their children. Couples therapy can save a marriage/relationship when is having problems, no matter how small.





= Analogies: = Couples therapy is like putting a grizzly bear and a lion in the same cage.

= Mnemonics: = C-Couples O-Organize U-Upon P-Persuasive L-Lengthy E-Experience S-Sessions

C- consequence O- of U- unreasonable P- people L- learning E- each other's S- spouse again

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