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Contrasting Approaches in Marital Counseling
Author(s) -
Elderkin Bell John
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1967.00016.x
Subject(s) - marital therapy , wife , perspective (graphical) , psychology , marital relationship , psychotherapist , social relation , clinical psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , law
My Aim in this paper is to look at the therapist‐marital couple relationship as a social system, and from this perspective to outline some aspects of the difference between treating a husband or wife as an individual patient and treating them together as a marital couple. I will try to differentiate individual treatment and treatment of the marital pair on two dimensions: their respective use as sources of data about the marital relationship, for both therapy and research, and their potentialities for changing the marital interaction.