Contrasting Approaches in Marital Counseling |
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| Authors: | John Elderkin Bell Ed.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Program Director, NIMH, PHS, Region IX, San Francisco, California. This article was written by the author in his private capacity and no official support or endorsement by the Public Health Service or Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is intended, or should be inferred. |
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| Abstract: | My Aim in this paper is to look at the therapist-marital couple relationship as a social system, and from this perspective to outline some aspects of the difference between treating a husband or wife as an individual patient and treating them together as a marital couple.
I will try to differentiate individual treatment and treatment of the marital pair on two dimensions: their respective use as sources of data about the marital relationship, for both therapy and research, and their potentialities for changing the marital interaction. |
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