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
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In 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.
It
is important that professionals dealing
with people in relationships have experience
and maturity to access the appropriate
intervention.
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
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difficult involvement with extended
family
- affectional,
sexual, child-rearing differences
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time commitments
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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
35 years of clinical experience and
28 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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Copyright
© 2004, Janet Miller
Wiseman. All rights reserved.
Revised June 2004
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