What Makes Couples Therapy Work? : Common Factors Across the Practices of Prominent Couples Therapy Model Developers

ISBN-13: 9783639154504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str.

Sean Davis

Opis

That couples therapy works and works well is without question. What is less clear, however, is why couples therapy works. Research clearly shows that the unique ingredients of any one couples therapy model contribute very little to successful clinical outcomes. What, then, makes couples therapy effective? In this award-winning study, Dr. Davis makes the claim that although each couples therapy model has characteristics that distinguish it from other models, much of what therapists are doing in the therapy room is the same. This study represents one of the first empirical attempts to not only outline what those similarities are, but to present these "golden threads" in an empirically derived meta-model of couples therapy. Data for the study were derived from interviews with prominent couples therapy model developers Dr. Susan Johnson

O autorze

Sean D. Davis is an Associate Professor and Site Director of
the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Alliant International
University, Sacramento, California. An award-winning researcher,
Dr. Davis has published several books and journal articles on
common factors in couple and family therapy. He can be reached
at sdavis2@alliant.edu.