Cognitive Family Therapy: A Preliminary Report

Russell, Axel; Russell, Lila; Waring, Edward M.

doi:10.1177/070674378002500112

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“…Most couples feel they have benefited from the ten sessions and therapists evaluate two‐thirds as improved. Self‐disclosure of personal constructs is effective in significantly reducing symptoms of distress and improving some aspects of marital quality (7, 27, 32, 33, 35). In this discussion, I wish to focus on observations and opinions about how self‐disclosure of personal constructs produces therapeutic change and implications for the practice of marital and family therapy in general.…”

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Self‐Disclosure of Personal Constructs

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1990

Family Process

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Sidney Jourard's (19) description of the role of self-disclosure in marriage is reviewed. George Kelly's (20) theory of personal constructs is described in an effort to explain the complexity of successful marriages and strong families. A kind of marital therapy based on the technique of self-disclosure and the rationale that couple pathology results from erroneous personal constructs is described. The idea that these faulty schemas largely derive from the observation of and experience with one's parents' marriage is discussed. The self-disclosure of personal constructs may provide a distinctive approach to family therapy.

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confidence: 99%