Couples therapy paper 385
Emotional Couples Therapy
Shannon Grosshans
BSHS/385 Interpersonal Communication and Interview Skills
October 6, 2014
Instructor: YVETTE MORELON
Emotional Couples Therapy This is a paper on a video named Emotional Focused Couples Therapy, it is about a couple that is talking to a counseling professional about issues they are having, the biggest one being the husbands anger. Throughout the videos you see how the professional uses the three stages in interviewing to support the couple. She also does a great job on summarizing and paraphrasing what the couple is saying and feeling. The professional uses both open and closed ended questions during the session. There is also a lot of body language happening by everyone involved, some good and some bad. The professional really shows the clients that she is really there for them in her body language and the way she is reflecting their feelings back at them. The couple listens to each other and expands on their feelings with the support of the professional. They also both realize that they want to work things out between them and are willing to keep working at their relationship.
Open and Closed Ended Questions
In this therapy session the therapist asked many open and closed ended questions to help get the full picture of the client’s relationship. When the therapist was asking these questions she was using verbal and nonverbal cues from the couple, to see how and what she should be asking next. The questions that where asked in this session is:
1. Is it hard to be supportive?
2. Is it had to be close? (Meaning affectionate)
3. Do you withdraw? (From the conversation and the relationship)
4. How do you deal with the message, that you are a are screwed up? (Not ever said he just fees that way.)
5. Are times that you can be close? (Affectionate)
6. Do you think that your wife sees you as a mean and nasty person?
7. Do you feel rejected?
8. Am I getting it? (The therapist states this several times during
Shannon Grosshans
BSHS/385 Interpersonal Communication and Interview Skills
October 6, 2014
Instructor: YVETTE MORELON
Emotional Couples Therapy This is a paper on a video named Emotional Focused Couples Therapy, it is about a couple that is talking to a counseling professional about issues they are having, the biggest one being the husbands anger. Throughout the videos you see how the professional uses the three stages in interviewing to support the couple. She also does a great job on summarizing and paraphrasing what the couple is saying and feeling. The professional uses both open and closed ended questions during the session. There is also a lot of body language happening by everyone involved, some good and some bad. The professional really shows the clients that she is really there for them in her body language and the way she is reflecting their feelings back at them. The couple listens to each other and expands on their feelings with the support of the professional. They also both realize that they want to work things out between them and are willing to keep working at their relationship.
Open and Closed Ended Questions
In this therapy session the therapist asked many open and closed ended questions to help get the full picture of the client’s relationship. When the therapist was asking these questions she was using verbal and nonverbal cues from the couple, to see how and what she should be asking next. The questions that where asked in this session is:
1. Is it hard to be supportive?
2. Is it had to be close? (Meaning affectionate)
3. Do you withdraw? (From the conversation and the relationship)
4. How do you deal with the message, that you are a are screwed up? (Not ever said he just fees that way.)
5. Are times that you can be close? (Affectionate)
6. Do you think that your wife sees you as a mean and nasty person?
7. Do you feel rejected?
8. Am I getting it? (The therapist states this several times during
References: (2009). Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy [Video file]. Retrieved from Phsycoheapy,bet website: http://ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/login?url=http://vast.alexanderstreet.com/view/1779000.