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Relationship Improvement
Marriage Counseling, Couples Therapy, Family Therapy and Family Mediation
Assessment
For improvement in relationships, the key is determining what kind of interverntion will be successful in:
• Improving distressing symptoms and behaviors
• Solving difficult problems and resolving conflicts
• Rushing in to provide marriage counseling when one of the parties clearly knows she will divorce is not indicated.
Doing family mediation where there is a devastating mental illness is not indicated.
Intervention
It is important that professionals dealing with people in relationships have experience and maturity to access the appropriate intervention.
Whether the intervention chosen is psychotherapy, marriage counseling, couples therapy, family mediation or decision-making, partners will be helped to define and achieve their own goals.
Psychotherapists and family members alike tend to think of psychotherapy as addressing relief of symptoms such as depression and anxiety that may contribute to relationship disturbance, ongoing or acute interpersonal malfunction. Likewise, marriage counseling or couples therapy are frequently thought to address such issues as:
• Financial differences
• Difficult involvement with extended family
• Affectional, sexual, child-rearing differences
• Time commitments
• same gender family issues
Janet Miller Wiseman, with the intervention of “Short-Term Decision Making for Couples and Families in Crisis”, adds another option for couples who need to determine directions their relationships will wisely take. They identify what they want and need in a good long-term relationship, learn to negotiate and assess whether they have the capacity and motivation to make the changes necessary to achieve a mutually satisfying relationship.
With 37 years of clinical experience and 30 years of mediation experience, Janet Miller Wiseman and staff determine the appropriate intervention to meet people’s needs and then collaborate with them to help them achieve success.
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