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Authority in therapeutic interaction: A conversation analytic study
AbstractA paradigmatic shift toward postmodern, collaborative practice in family therapy raises questions about how therapists can use professional authority to facilitate change and how clients can assert their knowledge and agency. We used conversation analysis to investigate how the authority to know and to determine here ‐and‐now action (i.e., who does what, and how, in therapy) was negotiated and accomplished in 10 sessions of emotion‐focused therapy involving chair work. Therapists were observed to rely on a particular interactional sequence structure:stepwise entry into a directive, in which directives were pr...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - March 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Olga Smoliak, Clare MacMartin, Alexa Hepburn, Amanda Le Couteur, Robert Elliott, Christopher Quinn ‐Nilas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Integration of teaming therapy and mixed ‐reality simulation as remote learning modality for couple and family therapy graduate training programs
AbstractIn response to COVID ‐19, a couple and family therapy (CFT) graduate training program integrated a teaming therapy model with virtual technology using mixed‐reality simulation software. By utilizing teaming therapy‐‐a model with strong roots in systemic theory and practice‐‐ combined with cutting‐edge simu lation technology, this distance learning modality provides distinctly relational therapy supervision and training for students at a time when their internships sites are struggling to offer remote clinical services due to the pandemic. This integrative framework offers a high degree of both realism...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer M. Sampson, Rachel L. Hughes, Laura B. Wallace, Michelle A. Finley Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Toward proficiency in telebehavioral health: applying interprofessional competencies in couple and family therapy
This article presents an existing interprofessional telebehavioral health competencies framework not befo re published in C/MFT journals. This article will also demonstrate how those competencies are applicable to the education, training, and practice of telebehavioral health by C/MFTs. Implications for educational, service, and regulatory organizations are presented. (Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 18, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine M. Hertlein, Kenneth P. Drude, Donald M. Hilty, Marlene M. Maheu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Individual mental health and couple functioning following couple relationship education participation: exploring prospective cross ‐lagged influences among changes
This study conducted tests of processes of change in CRE participants ’ mental health and couple functioning, based on previous evidence of concurrent benefit in these domains following CRE participation. Using a diverse sample of 926 men and women we first tested the stress generation model (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1991, 100(4), 555–561) assumptions that individual functioning influences relational functioning. We found support for immediate changes in mental health predicting changes in couple functioning 6 months later. However, a full cross‐lagged prospective model comparatively testing the stress genera...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Erin Cooper, Francesca Adler ‐Baeder, Julianne McGill Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research

Resolving Coparenting Dissatisfaction In Couples: A Preliminary Task Analysis Study
This study explored the change that unfolded when parents resolved their coparenting dissatisfaction during an Integrative Brief Systemic Intervention (IBSI) for parent couples. We conducted a task analysis (Greenberg, 2007) to build a model of resolving coparenting dissatisfaction. We compared a postulated model of change (rational model) based on theoretical and clinical assumptions to the observations of the actual change process that couples experienced in an IBSI (empirical analysis). The empirical analysis was conducted on six IBSI therapy cases (three exhibiting positive development and three exhibiting no developme...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cindy Eira Nunes, Antonio Pascual ‐Leone, Yves Roten, Nicolas Favez, Joëlle Darwiche Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

The impact of discernment counseling on individuals who decide to divorce: experiences of post ‐divorce communication and coparenting
AbstractDiscernment counseling is designed to help couples considering divorce arrive at a greater sense of clarity and confidence in their decision making about the future of their marriage. Possible outcomes include making no change to the marriage, divorcing, or attempting reconciliation through couples therapy. To date, no research has been done on whether or not discernment counseling helps couples who decide to divorce with their post ‐divorce family life (i.e., coparenting). We surveyed 11 people (from male–female couples) and conducted in‐depth interviews with eight who had undergone discernment counseling an...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Angela J. Emerson, Steven M. Harris, Fathiya A. Ahmed Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Beyond polyphony: Open Dialogue in a Women ’s Shelter in Australia as a possibility for supporting violence‐informed practice
Open Dialogue is a family/social network ‐centered psychotherapeutic approach to responding to people in crisis and distress. In 2017, Open Dialogue network meetings were implemented in an Australian inner‐city shelter for disadvantaged women. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of participating in these meetings from t he perspective of service users and Open Dialogue practitioners. Qualitative interviews were completed with thirteen participants (six service users and seven practitioners) and analyzed thematically. The findings suggested that dialogical processes created safety by attending to multipl...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lisa Dawson, Rochelle Einboden, Andrea McCloughen, Niels Buus Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

The Experiences of Couple/Marriage and Family Therapists of color: A Survey Analysis
The family therapy literature documenting the experiences of couple/marriage and family therapists (C/MFTs) of color as a group is limited. The purpose of this study was to assess the status of C/MFTs of color in their clinical training programs, clinical work, and related areas of professional challenges and opportunities. Participants (N = 113) completed a one‐time, anonymous electronic survey on SurveyMonkey consisting of demographic questions, closed‐ and open‐ended questions about their experiences. Key findings are reported related to C/MFTs of color experiences in training programs, areas of professional nee...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kara S. Erolin, Elizabeth Wieling Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Eliciting Stance and Mitigating Therapist Authority in Open Dialogue Meetings
Open Dialogue is a collaborative systemic approach to working with families in crisis. A core feature is the creation of dialogue through the elicitation of a multiplicity of voices. Using conversation analysis, we studied 14  hr of Open Dialogue sessions. We found that therapists recurrently produced utterances containing “I’m wondering.” These utterances topicalized particular issues and invited stance positions from other participants while also allowing the therapist to mitigate their deontic authority and pre sent potentially disaligning stances. Therapists thus exercised authority in eliciting stances, but pro...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ben Ong, Scott Barnes, Niels Buus Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Clients ’ perceptions of marriage and family therapists’ way‐of‐being: a phenomenological analysis
AbstractPrevious research highlights the influence of therapist factors on treatment outcomes. One therapist factor proposed as fundamental to the process of therapy is the therapist's way ‐of‐being, a relational concept that refers to how the therapist regards a client—either as a person or object (Fife et al., [2014]Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 40, 20 –33). Although this case has been made conceptually, there is little empirical research on therapists’ way‐of‐being with clients. The primary purpose of this research is to investigate clients’ perceptions of their therapists’ way‐of‐being. U...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Derek L. Holyoak, Stephen T. Fife, Katherine M. Hertlein Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research