Multi-couple reflecting team: preliminary report.
The aim of therapeutic help in marital crisis is to break the vicious circle of mutual hurtful accusations. The method that the authors present below involves a group of couples working within a closed cycle of meetings. In the course of successive group meetings, the various couples act as reflecting teams (RTs) for each other. This achieves two objectives: the couple recounting their crisis receives nonthreatening feedback, which helps them to implement positive changes and break out of the self-perpetuating destructive interaction. In addition, the couples acting as the RT learn nonjudgmental, nontheorizing and affirmative communication.
de Barbaro
Bogdan
B
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. bogdandebarbaro@wp.pl
Drozdzowicz
Lucyna
L
Janusz
Bernadetta
B
Gdowska
Katarzyna
K
Dembińska
Edyta
E
Kołbik
Ilona
I
Furgał
Mariusz
M
D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008388:Marital Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome