Marital Therapy Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+

Marital Therapy Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+ Sterbverg's triangular theory of love - Answers Intimacy, Commitment, Passion Intimacy love only - Answers Liking Passion love only - Answers infatuation Commitment only - Answers Empty love Romantic love - Answers Intimacy + passion Companionate love - Answers Intimacy + commitment Fatuous love - Answers Passion + Commitment Consummate love - Answers Intimacy + Passion + commitment Four horsemen - Answers Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling Criticism - Answers Verbally attacking partner's personality or character Contempt - Answers Attacking partner's sense of self with an intention to insult or psychologically abuse them Defensiveness - Answers Seeing yourself as the victim in efforts to ward off a perceived attack and reverse the blame Stonewalling - Answers Withdrawing from the relationship as a way to avoid conflict in efforts to convey disapproval, distance, and separation Antidote of Criticism - Answers Complain without blame Antidote of Defensiveness - Answers Take responsibility Antidote of contempt - Answers build culture of appreciation Antidote of stonewalling - Answers do psychological self-soothing Risk factors for divorce - Answers low ratio of positive to negative 2. harsh start up 3. presence of 4 horsemen 4. failure of repair attempts 5. husbands escalation and unwillingness to accept influence from wife 6. pervasive emotional disengagement The sound relationship house: First level - Answers Couples friendship; 1. Love maps 2. share fondness and admiration Love maps - Answers roadmap to your partner's inner world - who they are; emotional atunement Two ways to build love maps - Answers 1. pay attention to your partner 2. Be intentional about asking open-ended questions Fondness and Admiration - Answers degree of cherishing; friendship level regulates negative affect in conflict Turning towards instead of away - Answers catching each other's bid for connection (80%); turning away is not responding; and turning against is making a negative response Negative sentiment override - Answers blaming and resenting; black and white thinking; negative outlook Positive perspective - Answers believing the best of your partner, "he's upset bc of work and hunger; he'll be alright after dinner" The sound relationship house: Second level - Manage conflict - Answers accept your partners influence 2. Dialogue about problem 3. Practice self-soothing The sound relationship house: Third level - Answers Make life dreams come true 2. create shared meaning Make life dreams come true - Answers coupes who are bonded together, pursue each other's dreams with as much vitality as their own create shared meaning - Answers mission statement; legacy; rituals of connection and reuniting; creating a sense of us each day The sound relationship house levels - Answers 1. Couple Friendship 2. how the couple manages conflict 3. shared meaning The sound relationship house: Pillars - Answers Trust and commitment Couple enhancement: Number of sessions - Answers 5-10 Distressed couple: number of sessions - Answers 15-20 Serious issues couple: number of sessions - Answers 25-50 (violence or affair) Marital therapists myths - Answers 1. communication training helps couples stay together 2. anger is dangerous 3. quid pro quo error 3 types of happy couples - Answers 1. volatile couple 2. validating couple 3. conflict avoiding couple Problematic couple type - Answers meta-emotional-mismatch - different types; e.g. conflict avoidant and volatile Role of therapist - Answers empower couple to take charge of their relationship and soothe each other Session format - Answers 1. catch up 2. pre-intervention 3. give intervention (ask for suggestion) 4. Couple makes intervention their own 5. Resistance or no? 6 HW Major friendship interventions - Answers love maps (update file on who partner is), open-ended questions, salsa deck, "I appreciate" exercise, Stress reducing exercise, questions after 50, 52 questions before marriage The stress-reducing conversation - Answers 1. identify a stressor outside the relationship 2. Be an ally 3. understanding precedes problem solving 4. ask if partner wants to problem solve Gottman style assessment: Conjoint activities - Answers 1. Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test 2. Weiss-Cerreto Relationship Status Inventory 3. The Sound Relationship House Assessment Questionnaires 4. The Gottman 19 Areas Checklist for Solvable and Perpetual Problems 5. Gottman Emotional Abuse Questionnaire (EAQ) 6. SCL-90 7. Control & Fear Questionnaires 8.Acts of Physical Aggression Questionnaire 9. Drug and Alcohol Screening Test & Suicide Potential 10. the Six "Detour" Scales Conflict blueprint - Answers 1. Gottman Rapoport Intervention 2. Dreams within conflict 3. Compromise and Problem solving 4. Aftermath of a fight or regrettable incident Harsh startups - Answers Blaming, You statements, judging, general, aggressive, entitled Soft startups - Answers complaining, I statements, describing, specific, polite, appreciative Gottman Rapoport Intervention - Answers 1. Speaker/Listener exercise 2. Goal: emotional connection and dialogue so both feel understood 3. assumption of similarity Gottman Rapoport Intervention: Speaker job description - Answers talk openly and honestly about values, feelings, and beliefs about your position 1. No horsemen 2. No You statements 3. Talk about feelings 4. State a positive need using gentle start up E.g. "I feel _ about _ and what I really need is _" Gottman Rapoport Intervention: Listener job description - Answers 1. attune to your partner 2. summarize and reflect back ate, communicate understanding, and empathy Therapist role during conflict if horsemen present - Answers stop interaction 2. gently label and define horsemen then provide antidote 3. coach around alternative method 4. invite couple back into discussion Dreams within conflict - Answers Gridlock conflicts; Goal: increasing dialogue, understanding, and acceptance around differences; assumes meaning behind position Continuity dreams - Answers wanting to continue meaningful traditions from FOO