Journal title RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE
Author/s Vittorio Cigoli, Marialuisa Gennari, Caterina Gozzoli, Davide Margola
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/55
Language Italian Pages 32 P. 7-38 File size 278 KB
DOI 10.3280/PR2022-055002
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Seeking couple therapy is more and more diffuse, no matter if couples are married, cohabitant or reconstructed. This is due to the change of the cultural background with reference to the connection between marital relationship and family relationship. Thus, clinical practice for couples has become a real therapeutic genre with its own distinctiveness: the client is the partners’ relationship and its destiny. The present paper focuses on different epistemological and ethical perspectives in working with couples. The first perspective regards the so called Empirically Supported Treatments which is oriented to an ethics of effectiveness-usefulness; the second perspective is qualitative-supported and relational-oriented: its ethics strives for the meaning-fulness of both the marital relationship and couple/therapist relationship. Furthermore, the paper takes into account the issue, crucial in psychotherapy research, regarding the difference between theory and models as much as between methods and techniques. Finally, besides the differences among therapeutic models with couples, the possibility of a worth and fruitful encounter between clini cal practice and empirical research is highlighted. Methodological suggestions are given in order to conceive both the personal variance (i.e., single partners and the therapist) and the bond on its own (i.e., couple relationship, therapeutic relationship).
Keywords: Couple therapy, couple relationships, therapeutic relationships, psychotherapy research.
Vittorio Cigoli, Marialuisa Gennari, Caterina Gozzoli, Davide Margola, Curare la relazione di coppia. L’incontro tra pratica clinica e ricerca empirica in "RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE " 55/2022, pp 7-38, DOI: 10.3280/PR2022-055002