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
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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
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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