Final Exam Study Guide Points

Question 1

What are the Five Theories of marital therapy?

Answer 1

• Systems model
• Cognitive-Behavioral couples therapy
• Integrative behavioral couples therapy
• Emotional couples therapy
• Behavioral models.

Question 2

What is the focus for Systems models?

Answer 2

Focus on unspoken riles and expectations within the relationship

Question 3

What is the theory behind the systems model?

Answer 3

relationship problems occur when these unspoken rules and expectations have too much rigidity,

Question 4

What are the goals of the systems model?

Answer 4

Enable partners to articulate the unspoken rules and expectations of their relationship.

help partners to develop new, more adaptive rules and expectations for the relationship

Question 5

What are the two main things that are examined in the systems model?

Answer 5

re-label behaviors

reframe problems

Question 6

What is the focus of the behavioral model of Marital therapy?

Answer 6

Focus on the behavioral exchanges of spouses.

• how partners behaviours are followed by rewards or punishments
• rewards increase likelihood of that behavior in the future, whereas punishments decrease likelihood of that behavior.

Question 7

What are The main goals of the Behavioral model of martial therapy?

Answer 7

give partners communication training

• Advice on how to listen to each other
• Advice on how to talk productively

Give partners problem solving training
- help to apply skills from communication training to the discussion of specific problems

Question 8

What are two Behavioral models?

Answer 8

Cognitive-behavioral couples therapy

integrative behavioral couples therapy

Question 9

What is the focus of Cognitive-behavioral couples therapy?

Answer 9

• Includes couples cognitive interpretations of each others behavior.

Specially addresses:

• selective attention for certain types of partner behavior
• attributions for why partners behave the way they do
• explanations about partners likely reactions
• assumptions about how relationships operate
• Standards about how relationships should operate.

Question 10

What is a attribution?

Answer 10

the action of regarding something as being caused by a person or thing. (your hubby is out late so he must be cheating)

Question 11

What are the goals for Cognitive-behavioral couples therapy?

Answer 11

Help couples to interpret their partners’ behavior in a positive light by, for instance:

• helping people make adaptive attributions regarding their partners behavior
• helping people attend to their partners’ positive behaviors.

Question 12

What is the focus of integrative behavioral couples therapy?

Answer 12

Includes teaching couples that some behaviors and aspects of their relationship need to be tolerated

focus on helping one partner to accommodate to the others behavior, rather than changing the others behavior

Question 13

What is the goal of integrative behavioral couples therapy?

Answer 13

Empathic joining: help partners adopt each others perspectives

unified detachment: help partners view their problems with less emotion

Tolerance building: Help partners accept that not all problems can be solved.

Question 14

What is the focus of emotionally focused couples therapy?

Answer 14

Focuses on partners feelings

Divides emotion into:
primary emotions: focus on feelings related to security and abandonment
secondary emotions: feeling that may suppress primary emotions.

Question 15

What is an example of secondary emotions

Answer 15

Anger

Question 16

What are the goals for emotionally focused couples therapy?

Answer 16

Help partners see through their secondary emotions to their primary emotions
through:

• de-escalation of negitibe cycles: Partners can acknowledged that they contribute to relationship problems.

Shaping new cycles of responsiveness and accessibility: partners learn more positive ways of behaving towards each other.

Consolidation and integration: partners think about the changes they have made and understand how their relationship has changed with time.

Question 17

Efficacy studies are….

Answer 17

Experiments designed to see whether the approaches can produce desired results

Question 18

Effectiveness studies are….

Answer 18

studies that take place where the couples therapy actually takes place, being less scientifically rigorous but allowing a more realistic picture of how a cretin method actually works.