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Does Couples Therapy Work?
WE’VE all had that horrible experience: you throw a party or invite a couple over for dinner, and they start fighting, right there in front of you — the character assassination, the barely controlled anger, the neurotic transference of their cooled sexual attraction onto, say, the hygiene of the family dog, all of which makes you want to fake choking and hide. Surely bearing witness to couples’ quarrels feels less bad to the pros, those credentialed and compensated marriage and family therapists whose job it is to help significant others work through issues and pain?
“Oh, no,” says Terry Real, a licensed independent clinical social worker speaking out about how couples therapy feels…
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Couples Therapy for One: To Fix a Marriage, Some Go Alone
Many couples in troubled marriages wait too long to get help. By the time both spouses agree to counseling, the relationship has often been strained to the breaking point. Some spouses, though, have found a way to work on their marriages even if their partners won't go to couples counseling. They go alone.
I'm a marriage counselor. Here's how I can tell a couple is heading for divorce
Here are nine signs that the relationship is on life support. (All patients' names are changed.)
Marriage Counseling: Does It Help Or Not?
Here are certain conditions under which couples counseling may not help a couple repair their marriage...
Marriage Counselors: 10 Things They Don’t Want You To Know
You’re ready to talk and — finally — so is your spouse. But who can you trust when your heart, time and money are on the line? Here are the 10 things your marriage counselor won’t say.
Does Couples Therapy Work?
The fact that couples therapy stresses out therapists has long been an open secret. The field, however, seems to have decided that now would be an appropriate time for its practitioners to address their feelings and vent.
9 things I've learned about marriage from being a couples therapist
Before becoming a therapist, I wrote advice columns for the lovelorn. I told people what to do — and what not to do. Leave the partner who is committed to commitment-phobia. Make sure the two of you have similar long-term goals. Don't stay with anyone who is abusive. And so on.
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FamilyLife
We provide transferrable, biblically-based help for you at every stage of your marriage and family life.
Marriage Fitness
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The Family Therapy Blog
A collection of thoughts from marriage and family therapy professionals.
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
AAMFT is the professional association for the field of marriage and family therapy. We represent the professional interests of more than 25,000 marriage and family therapists throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.
American Counseling Association
The American Counseling Association is a not-for-profit, professional and educational organization that is dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the counseling profession.
American Mental Health Counselors Association
The only organization working exclusively for the mental health counseling profession.
Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice
AFT, the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, is a registered charity working to benefit the public by promoting effective family therapy and systemic services and high standards of professional trainings and practice. Our vision is to promote professional excellence.
International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors
The International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC) is a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and was chartered in 1989. IAMFC embraces a multicultural approach in support of the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of the families we serve.
International Family Therapy Association
The cornerstone of every society is the family. With the support of its members, the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) provides international conferences to promote, strengthen and improve the quality of family therapy, the quality of relationships within families and to promote well-being and peace within our world.
Journal of Family Psychology
The Journal of Family Psychology® (JFP) is the premier family research journal. Family psychology is a complex field, as it includes systems perspectives on the multiple influences on relationships, developmental perspectives on how relationships are formed and sustained over time, cultural perspectives on how society and traditions affect relationships...
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