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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3PART A...........................................................................................................................................3An overarching Systemic Theoretical perspective......................................................................3Discussion of current state...........................................................................................................4Development of their major issues .............................................................................................5Distinguishing individual issues with couple issues....................................................................6PART B............................................................................................................................................6Systemic theory............................................................................................................................6Family system therapy.................................................................................................................7Couples’ therapy..........................................................................................................................8Gottman Method..........................................................................................................................8Narrative therapy.........................................................................................................................9PART C............................................................................................................................................9Critical analysis of the counsellor ..............................................................................................9CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10REFERENCE ................................................................................................................................122
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INTRODUCTIONRelationship counselling plays an important role in developing understanding overdifferent problems and situations. Couples who focus on relationship counselling are the peoplewho faces serious issues which cannot be handled at own level. Family system theory is knownas the form of psychotherapy which assist individuals to resolve their issues in context to theirfamily units in which different issues take place. Further, if couple is distressed and not able tofind and way to be out trouble from relationship. There are many good reasons due to whichcouples should seek relationship counselling. Effective relationship counselling help in resolving communication issues, premaritalcounselling, sexual issues, blended families (Gurman, Lebow and Snyder, 2015). Couples’therapy and counselling therapy can be used to support relationship problems and counselling.The present report, is based on case study of husband and wife who are facing difficulty incarrying out their relation with each other. The report will explain different types of theories,intervention and therapies that can help in maintaining the relationship between husband andwife.It will also describe the types of therapy that is used in improving relationship of couples.PART AAn overarching Systemic Theoretical perspectiveAccording to the given scenario, it is analysed that business man was in affair with last 9months and only interested in sexual side of the affair and no deep feeling for another person.However, he feels guilty for his affair and want to overcome with this problem. Therefore, heinvolved himself in counselling session, to understand why he has the affair. His friends andfamily have been very supportive and were trying hard to save their marriage. Further, he is happy to attend counselling with his wife as he wants to mend the marriage.He has also changed his phone number many times so that he can easily avoid the relationshipwith another person. Doing this he thinks that he can gain trust of his wife. For doing this, hewants to keep up the openness of communication which has been happening in last week. Due toaffair he feels hurt and criticize himself a lot. Moreover, he faced many ups and downs in 5 yearswhich are not disclosed with family. There was lack of effective communication betweenhusband and wife (Yoo, Bartle-Haring and Gangamma, 2014). 3
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On the other side, his wife was a victim of child sexual abuse. She had many therapistsover the years. Feels angry about the affair and more information has recently come to light thatthe length of the affair was far longer than initially mentioned. She is still in love with herhusband and want to save her married life. They have children who are between 10 to 12 agegroup and they are worried about divorce. Furthermore, her wife was concerned that husband haslost interest in maintaining the property which they used to enjoy together. Due to affair ofhusband, strong issue developed related to trust. She has lots of fear that her husband may notkeep any open communication and she think that affair can boosted her ego. This shows negativethinking and emotions for husband in mind of wife (Malouff, Thorsteinsson and Rooke, 2010).However, she feels that she is not attractive enough and therefore her husband startedaffair with another woman. From the overall scenario it can be identified that both husband andwife are facing some individual issues due to which their marriage life is getting affected. Theyboth want to save their relationship but trust issues are the major barrier between them. It wasobserved that there is no open communication between couple due to which it becoming toughfor them regain the intimacy in the marriage life. It seems that her wife wants to save hermarriage life but she was not able to co-operate with her husband. It appears that she wants torecover her relationship but phone reminds her of the affair as they had already changed thenumber several times and still another woman contacts her husband. This is making her moreaggressive and defensive. The major reason behind saving relation is the children who are notolder enough to understand reality and separation. Discussion of current stateAt present, between couple, husband is feeling guilty and wants to overcome his mistakeand live happy life with family. Her wife was not able to trust on him due to which they arefacing more issues. From relationship perspective, after listening views and opinion of bothhusband and wife it is identified that both want to be in relationship with each other. Husband isfeeling hurt from inside and used to Criticizes himself. To save relationship he has commencedhis own counselling sessions. Along with this he, is also ready to attend counselling session withhis wife because he wants to mend with the marriage. It shows behaviour of couple that isaffecting their entire relationship (Asen, 2018).While, her wife does not want to leave marriage because of the children. Individual issuesin husband life was that he faced many ups and downs from last five years. He had not discussed4
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