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Couple-responsible therapy process: positive proximal outcomes.

M H Butler1, K S Wampler

  • 1School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-8601, USA. Mark_Butler@BYU.edu

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|April 20, 1999
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Couple-responsible therapy processes enhance perceived responsibility and reduce struggle compared to therapist-responsible processes. However, cooperation is negatively impacted by shifts between these therapeutic approaches.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Family Therapy
  • Clinical Research

Background:

  • Therapist-couple dynamics significantly influence clinical outcomes in couple therapy.
  • Understanding the interplay between therapist and couple contributions to the therapeutic process is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conceptualize and investigate couple therapy processes, differentiating between couple-responsible and therapist-responsible dynamics.
  • To examine how these distinct processes relate to couple's perceived responsibility, struggle, and cooperation.

Main Methods:

  • Developed models for couple-responsible (enactments, accommodation, inductive process) and therapist-responsible (interaction, interpretation, instruction) processes.
  • Exposed 25 couples to counterbalanced couple-responsible and therapist-responsible episodes within a single session.

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  • Utilized videotape review and self-report measures for responsibility, struggle, and cooperation.

    • Main Results:

    • Couple-responsible episodes were associated with higher perceived responsibility and lower struggle compared to therapist-responsible episodes.
    • The presence of a contrast condition (experiencing one process after its opposite) amplified these effects on responsibility and struggle.
    • Cooperation was negatively affected by shifts between couple-responsible and therapist-responsible processes.

    Conclusions:

    • Couple-responsible processes appear more conducive to positive perceptions of responsibility and reduced struggle in couple therapy.
    • Therapeutic process shifts can negatively impact cooperation, highlighting the importance of consistent therapeutic approaches.
    • Therapist process alone does not fully account for the variance in responsibility, struggle, and cooperation, suggesting other factors are involved.