Week 8 Case Study: Couple Interviews

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Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th

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Psychoeducational Models: Teaching Skills to Specific Populations

• Not necessarily theory-driven

• Aimed at how to help families maximize their effectiveness with a specific concern, often severe mental illness

• Schizophrenia as an example • Role of expressed emotion (EE) in family functioning

Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th

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Psychoeducational Models: Teaching Skills to Specific Populations

• Works with Single Families or Multiple Family Groups

• Medical Family Therapy • Biopsychosocial model

• Family therapist-physician partnerships

• Family therapist-family partnerships

Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th

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Psychoeducational Models: Teaching Skills to Specific Populations

• Relationship Enhancement Programs

• Premarital Education Programs

• Marital Enrichment Programs (Marriage Encounter) • Research-based

• Stepfamily Preparation Programs

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Research on Family Assessment and Therapeutic Outcome

• The Need for Research in Family Therapy Training and Practice • Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies

• Couple and Family Assessment

• Self-report measures • Circumplex model

• Family environment scale

• Observational methods

• McMaster model

• Beaver’s system model

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Research on Family Assessment and Therapeutic Outcome

• Family Therapy Research • Process vs. Outcome Research

• Efficacy vs. Effectiveness Research

• Common Factors

• Evidence-Based Family Therapy