How To Respond To Close Relationships
The things you come across doing a literary search for an essay… a fascinating start to understanding relationship conflicts… the male and female communication chasm!
Close relationships are ideal for investigating and understanding adult emotional experiences; this essay will examine two of the many theories of relationship through the context of a fictional role play scenario, highlighting how a therapist could utilize these theories in the process of couple counselling.
The couple, Jane and John were brought together in role-play and are in a fiction marriage. John had insisted on attending couple counselling in a bid to save the relationship. He worked away for 2 weeks every month on oilrigs, Jane did not work and her son was away at university. John had recently found out that his wife of 4 years had been having an affair; he came to the room angry and aggressive towards her claiming she was greedy, ungrateful and frigid, Jane was less communicative and polarized in behaviour. John’s belief was that he deserved loyalty and respect for providing a big house, security, credit cards and education for her son; in his words he could not believe she could do it to him, Jane’s response was that she didn’t do it for him, she did it for her…
In this situation the relationship was at a crisis point, they had ceased …show more content…
Emotionally focused therapy, developed by Leslie Greenberg and Susan Johnson (1988), involves the identification of problematic interaction cycles between partners and the emotions underlying them. The therapist would work to help the couple to recognize their emotional experience in the relationship and restructure their interactions in order to create a more satisfying relationship. They would work together to reprocess and redefine the relationship in such a way that it provides a more secure attachment base for both
Close relationships are ideal for investigating and understanding adult emotional experiences; this essay will examine two of the many theories of relationship through the context of a fictional role play scenario, highlighting how a therapist could utilize these theories in the process of couple counselling.
The couple, Jane and John were brought together in role-play and are in a fiction marriage. John had insisted on attending couple counselling in a bid to save the relationship. He worked away for 2 weeks every month on oilrigs, Jane did not work and her son was away at university. John had recently found out that his wife of 4 years had been having an affair; he came to the room angry and aggressive towards her claiming she was greedy, ungrateful and frigid, Jane was less communicative and polarized in behaviour. John’s belief was that he deserved loyalty and respect for providing a big house, security, credit cards and education for her son; in his words he could not believe she could do it to him, Jane’s response was that she didn’t do it for him, she did it for her…
In this situation the relationship was at a crisis point, they had ceased …show more content…
Emotionally focused therapy, developed by Leslie Greenberg and Susan Johnson (1988), involves the identification of problematic interaction cycles between partners and the emotions underlying them. The therapist would work to help the couple to recognize their emotional experience in the relationship and restructure their interactions in order to create a more satisfying relationship. They would work together to reprocess and redefine the relationship in such a way that it provides a more secure attachment base for both