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Reply to the Commentaries: Of Course, We Do Not Yet Know What it is All About, But Functional Contextualism is a Good Place to Start
Author(s) -
Benson Lisa A.,
Sevier Mia,
Christensen Andrew
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12036
Subject(s) - contextualism , epistemology , psychology , mechanism (biology) , psychotherapist , philosophy , linguistics , interpretation (philosophy)
In this reply to the commentaries, we note several points of disagreement with Johnson and Greenman on theoretical and empirical grounds. We are particularly surprised by their assumption that attachment has already been established as the key mechanism of change in couple therapy, as our present findings do not support this idea. We also elaborate on Gurman's functional contextualist views and describe why IBCT may be a particularly helpful model for training new couple therapists in a contextualist way.