Marriage And Family Counseling: Annotated Bibliography

Steve Titensor is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, he is my father-in-law, and I found our interview insightful into the mental health field. Even though he knows I am going into social work and we casually talk about his profession and experience, we’ve never discussed many of the questions from this assignment. Currently he is employed at First Step House, an organization that helps individuals struggling with substance abuse and mental health disorders as the Fatherhood Program Manager. He works with men who have children and are working on goals to regain custody. Previously, he worked for Salt Lake County Youth Services and as a Chaplain at Hill Air Force Base for over 25 years. He’s also been employed as a therapist at LDS Family Services and private practice in his home for over 20 years. He has a vast amount of experience, and it is obvious that he enjoys and is passionate about his profession.

The American Counseling Association (ACA) is the most sizeable worldwide association for counseling professionals ("American Counseling Association.", n.d.). The American Counseling Association (ACA) is a nonprofit organization ("American Counseling Association.", n.d.). The American Counseling Association (ACA) is based out of Alexandria, VA ("American Counseling Association.", n.d.). It was founded in 1952, by the convergence of four different associations in Los Angeles, Ca ("American Counseling Association.", n.d.).

1David C. Olsen. Integrative Family Therapy: Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press; 1993; page 15.

In contrast to Crabb, Worthington’s thesis for his guide is: “Hope-focused marriage counseling is a comprehensive and tightly organized theory of Christian marriage counseling based on promoting hope and teaching couples a strategy to build love, faith and work into their relationship.” Worthington’s approach and foundation for marital counseling is two-fold: research based and scripture based. The first part of his approach is evidence-based. He first studied trends and research in the field of marriage and family counseling, focusing on integrative behavioral couple’s therapy, cognitive-behavioral couples therapy, emotion-focused couples therapy, and insight oriented couples therapy. In this research, he found that it is important to change

At the beginning of relationships, couples face the challenge of the unknown of one another’s life experiences. Although they are unknown and scary when thought about, they are very exciting as well. The challenges they now face from being in a relationship happen with themselves and as a couple. At first, each challenge, including with yourself, will have an affect on the relationship they have created together. One thing couples can do to help their relationship if it is in need, is to look for outside help such as counseling. Sometimes it is important to look to someone on the outside to help you with your issues because they have the ability to see things you may not see. In doing so, it may take the relationship back to a healthy, strong, loving, trusting relationship that it once was. Susan, was the person Josh

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have avoided your whole life”(Shannon L. Alder). Examining the quote, I can relate to how the person is feeling. When people first start talking to me, I’m not always ready to pour out my heart to them. When I completely realize that it’s for the best, and only satisfaction will come from it. I understand that this is the challenge that I will be compelled to acquire, so that my future will improve.

I would advise him to seek a counselor for himself first. He will need to have a person he can confide in and talk things over with. I would also suggest that they go see a marriage therapist as a couple to work through what caused her to have the affair in the first place. Without working through their emotions the likelihood that their marriage will work is slim. As Wright says, “When you come to the end of your rope, it becomes easier and easier to say ‘I’ve had it’ or It’s over’” (One Marriage Under God, 2005, p. 106). Since there are children involved they should do everything possible to work their marriage out. The effects on the children are traumatic, even if they do not see them at first.

and distressed and they will have difficulty with their emotions. When a couple struggles with connecting and communicating with one another they may be struggling due to their attachment style. When going to couples counseling they can learn skills and techniques to teach them to be emotional available and learn trust and commitment and improve their relationship and happiness.

There are mutual influences between an individual and their social environment. There are also at-risk factors involved in the life of a developing adolescent that interconnects with a series of reciprocal systems. I can recall as a developing adolescent quickly maturing into adulthood, the many social, economic, external and internal influences that contributed to certain at-risk behaviors. These type of influences impacted me directly and indirectly. I was influenced by the several environments I was in, and I also contributed to influencing the environment around me. Attempting to exert control over uncontrollable circumstances only lead to desperate situations and weighty consequences. However, learning to accept my present

From 09/2012 to 02/2013, exact date unknown, Subject and spouse went to seek the services of Lewis Franberry, a marital counselor at Clarity Clinic at 1000 State Street, Franklin, OH 45505, phone number unknown. The counseling treatment was voluntary in nature. Subject told her parents about the incident and counseling, but did not reveal the incident to her employer, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). She did not need to report the incident to her employer due to no law enforcement involvement and no legal action as a consequence.

At Marriage and Family Therapeutic Restorations, an agency focused on couples and family therapy, I work as a marriage and family therapist (MFT). My job description entails understanding a family’s patterns of behavior, how these patterns influence individual members of the family, and how the relationships between family members help the family function as a whole (About marriage and family therapists, n.d.).Aa a marriage and family therapist, I would be required to understand how to treat a wide range of serious physical and psychological clinical problems, including depression, marital problems, anxiety, parent and child conflict, eating disorders, and substance abuse (About marriage and family therapists, n.d.).

The points I learned about behavioral couples therapy are clients need to change their own behaviors and not others, help clients understand goals, find out what changes do they want to make, and be an expert on what behaviors will work and which behaviors will not after experimenting them in the real world. What stands out to me are that clients focus on changing their own behaviors. Additionally, counselors should identify and maximize their clients strengths. I thought that not spending time on how clients learned behaviors, but understanding what are their learned behaviors was the most beneficial part of the model. What I might consider in my own work was when Dr. Stuart was focusing on the here and now and not the past. I understood what

"Candidates gain hands-on experience through post degree supervised clinical work, sometimes referred to as an internship or residency. In training, they learn to provide family therapy, group therapy, psychotherapy, and other therapeutic interventions, under the supervision of a licensed counselor"(Bureau of Labor Statistics). To be certified as a Marriage and Family Therapist they have to undergo some residency, which in most cases is referred to as an Internship. An internship is a position of a not yet certified peer looking to get hours of training under supervision, sometimes with pay or without. One example, could be an assistant at a retirement home.

This paper will examine a critical incident that has taken place in a group on a celebrity reality show called Marriage Boot Camp. The show is based on celebrity couples who are going through a crisis in their relationship, and this is an attempt for them to participate in group therapy to fix the issues. There are several characters on the show, but this will focus on Hank Baskett III who is a former wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings and his wife Kendra Basket who is a former girlfriend and reality star of Hugh Hefner. The couple married after six months of dating in 2009 and had a child within that same year. During these years of marriage, the couple has been on several reality shows broadcasting their life to the world. To the

During my studies in Couples and Family Therapy program, I foresee encountering challenges such as: maintaining work-life balance and handling emotionally rigorous courses. I plan to continue my employment part-time while pursuing my degree. It would require juggling between heavy course load, along with various class presentations, projects, group assignments and finding personal and family time. Additionally, the course curriculum seems both emotionally and academically rigorous, for example, some of the case studies could be intricate, personal and emotionally taxing.