Posted: September 4th, 2015

personal approach to assessment in couple therapy

Personal approach

Consider the following scenario (From My parents never had sex by Hammond, 1987):

You are walking through a park during the daylight hours, when you come upon two persons sitting on a park bench. They are kissing and hugging, totally immersed in each other and completely oblivious to anyone or anything around them. Upon looking closer, you find they are:

a) A young man and a young woman
b) an old man and an old woman
c) an old man and a young woman
d) an old woman and a young man
e) two women
f) two men

What is your gut level emotional reaction (sweet, undignified, shameful, perverse, should be arrested) to each scenario?

Submit a discussion post formulating a personal approach to assessment in couple therapy. To guide your reflections, address the following in your post:

Identify at least two key principles that you will use to guide your assessment work with couples, and then discuss why you believe these ideas to be important.

Consider your own values and perceptions of couple relationships and discuss your approach to the following scenario: Early in the second therapy session a husband announces that he is leaving his marriage and walks out of the session. What might you be feeling? How will you manage your feelings to be of help to the wife? How will you approach therapy from this point forward?

Respond to the following scenario: You diagnose this man with Narcissistic Disorder and his partner with Borderline Personality Disorder. Discuss why you would or would not want to see the two of them together for conjoint therapy. State a specific position (i.e., “I would see them conjointly/separately.”) and support it with at least two treatment guidelines from the readings.

Consider the following scenario: the husband announces that he always felt an attraction to men and now believes that he cannot live his life as a lie and pretend that these feelings were not happening. While he still respects his current spouse, he would like to work towards dissolution of the marriage. Consider your feelings and thoughts while trying to help both the husband and his wife in the presented situation.

Include a reflection pertaining to the results of the Warm up Activity, addressing how you think your personal values, beliefs, and assumptions will guide your approach toward couples and sex therapy.

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