Couples

Key Concepts and Interventions of Narrative Couples Therapy Narrative Interventions Narrative couples therapy is an experiential process in which couples relive, make sense of and give new meaning to their experiences (Freedman & Combs, 2008). Narrative therapy helps couples to develop awareness of problematic talk and provide couples the chance to report and assess the effects of those problematic discourses on their relationship (Freedman & Combs, 2008). According to Anderson (1997) our…

Legalize Same-Sex Couple Adoption Imagine someone, heterosexual or homosexual, who has dreamed of having kids one day and that that was the only thing they could ever think about. Picture the thought that they had just found out that they were not going to be able to have children and that they had to find some other way of having a family they always desired. Adoption is one of the best decisions, so they go to a same-sex couple adoption….. Same-sex couple adoption should be legalized all…

This could provide the couple with the opportunity to identify and share feelings and create a space for open communication. If a partner is able to understand the addicts problem, they will be able to deal more effectively with it and become less emotionally reactive. If the addict was only to attend couple therapy without individual therapy, they may not receive the help they need. In couple therapy, the addict will only learn how to communicate better with…

Asia Hardin Writing Assignment 1 Counseling Relationships and Couples Counseling Counseling Relationships: When you become a counselor you, want to be able to have a strong and stable relationship with your patient. Without having a strong connection with your patient, they might not feel as open to telling you how the feeling or even expressing themselves because you don't have any type of connection with them to show they that you care. I believe having a connection with your patient or…

Collin’s article, “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” to examine the history behind race and gender as well as the stereotypes for different races and genders. I will also use director Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, to examine how people of different countries depict and stereotype indigenous people. Finally, I will use directors Diamond, Bainbridge and Hayes’ 2009 documentary, The Real Injun, to examine how a camp for boys with a majority…

Repair café started from Amsterdam, Netherlands where Martine Postman and her family started to think about ways to reduce waste going into landfills. Today is has more than 1,100 sites across 30 nations. The idea of repair café is steered by the people who are aware of the environmental issues just like Annie Leonard, the creator of the film ‘The Story of Stuff’. As mentioned both from the film and this article about repair café, products today are manufactured in a way that make their parts…

but people are still capable of doing all this without being married. The new generation thinks marriage is just a piece of paper since they could still do everything a married couple can do. A paper does not guarantee a couple to be successful in the relationship. There are certain differences between married couples…

backseat in childrearing while stepmothers are encouraged to form emotional attachments with their stepchildren (Moore, 2008). Same-sex couples on the other hand, have been found by prior research to live a more egalitarian lifestyle (Moore, 2008). Not surprisingly, the statement above has yet to be truly verified, and upon closer inspection it appears that lesbian couples reinforce gendered interactions…

According to the Huffington Post, most married couples are happiest in their third year of marriage. Marriage is something to be known as a commitment and not as a one time romance. In my opinion one needs to know the other partner well enough in order to marry the other person. These days people get married without knowing the other person well enough leading to high divorce rates. During the first 5 years of marriage there is a 20 percent chance of the couple getting divorced. This may seem to…

Secondly, couple’s therapy work focuses on what both people in the relationship seek to gain from therapy. What intimidates me about couples’ therapy is the potential for contention and disparity in the therapeutic relationship. According to Williams (2012), couples’ therapy requires a stance of neutrality thereby creating an environment of stability and consent to diffuse couples’ dissension. In couple’s therapy, each member brings with them a point of reference that must be recognized,…