Psychology 632
Instructions: Write about each (all) of the following prompts.
Prompt 1: Review: Assessment and Goal Setting pp. 133-134 in Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy.
Using the couple we role-played in class, assess the cycle the couple is caught in. Include the following in your response: (1) Name the cycle, and (2) name one goal that you would include in a treatment plan. (3) Pick one of the following EFT interventions that you could use to help this couple, and describe how you would use each of the interventions you choose:
- Reflecting Emotional Experience.
- Validation
- Evocative Responding
- Heightening Experience
- Small Empathic Conjectures
Prompt 2: Review the case of Monique and Tom, pp. 143 - 147 in Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy. Respond to the following parts of this prompt: (1) Provide one concrete example of how you would create a therapeutic alliance with each member of the couple, given your own social location (race, culture, ethnicity, economic status, other identity issues).
(2) What is so important to Monique about Tom understanding her historical and daily experiences as an African American woman and the experiences of their children? (HINT: Consider the lived experience impact of the emotional dance of this couple).
Prompt 3: Review Daniel Wile’s article: Opening the circle of pursuit and distance. Family Process, 52 (1) pp. 19 – 32. This article is located in Course Resources Module Two.
Considering the live role play from class this week, give one example of how you might use Wile’s “doubling” technique, where he speaks as if he is one partner communicating in a more emotionally honest way to the other partner? How might this intervention impact the couple therapy from an EFT perspective?
Format for an Academic Paper
- Please use APA style with 3-5 appropriate citations of your sources.
- Length: This assignment must be 3-5 pages (excluding the title and reference pages).
- References: Include 3 scholarly resources.