Set a place for Elijah: Problems of the spouses and parents of psychotherapy patients.

Hatcher, Sherry Lynn; Hatcher, Robert L.

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“…With the passage of time, however, most SOs reported having grown accustomed to and less bothered by the purportedly negative aspects. This trend corroborates Hatcher and Hatcher's (1983) finding that the negative reactions of patients' spouses and parents tend to diminish as treatment progresses.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Even so, most SOs reported feeling (in an abstract way) more open to therapy as a possibility for themselves. Overall, then, those interviewed for this study were aware of having mixed feelings about the impact of their partners' therapy; this is in contrast with earlier reports, which focused almost exclusively on the detrimental effects of one partner's therapy on the other (Glasser, 1963;Hatcher & Hatcher, 1983;Hurvitz, 1967;Moran, 1954). These studies have suggested that therapy with one spouse may be detrimental to the couple's relationship, sometimes leaving the SO feeling blamed, jealous, or superfluous.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Last, Hatcher and Hatcher (1983) studied the effects of therapy on family members by analyzing questionnaires filled out by 20 spouses and parents of patients in psychotherapy. Adopting a psychoanalytic perspective, these authors focused on the "fantasies" and "transference-like reactions" of the respondents to the treatment of their spouses or children.…”

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Effects of psychotherapy on significant others.

Brody¹,

Farber²

1989

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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The primary aim of this study was to investigate some of the ways in which one partner in a relationship is affected by the other partner's therapy. Twenty significant others (SOs), never in therapy themselves, whose spouse or live-in heterosexual partner was currently engaged in psychotherapy, were administered a 20-question interview and the 40-item Likert-type Spouse's Perception of Therapy Scale (SPOTS). Results indicated that most SOs harbored conflicted feelings about their partners' therapy. On the positive side, SOs felt that their partners were more empathic and open, that communication in their relationship had improved, and that they themselves were more introspective and better able to understand their partners. On the negative side, the privacy of the therapist-patient relationship inspired feelings in SOs of exclusion, resentment, and inadequacy. Most SOs also reported displeasure with the cost of therapy. It is suggested that therapy initiates a process of change not only in the patient, but in the SO and their relationship as well.

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Effects of psychotherapy on significant others.

Brody¹,

Farber²

1989

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…These findings support clinicians' frequent concerns about clients' partner's ability to cope with the effects of psychotherapy. However, in contrast to clinical reports, data from surveys of clients and their significant others (Brody & Farber, 1989;Hatcher & Hatcher, 1983;Methorst & Diekstra, 1987) indicate that effects on spouses can range widely, from mixed positive and negative effects to exclusively positive or negative effects. Some of the negative effects expressed by respondents have included a sense of exclusion and annoyance at the expense and perceived luxury of psychotherapy.…”

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Couples' accounts of the effects of individual psychotherapy.

Lefebvre¹,

Hunsley²

1994

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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This article describes three couples' experiences of one of the partners having been in psychotherapy, recounted during interviews conducted with each spouse individually. The importance of marital quality, couple adaptability, and shared problem perception in the adjustment to therapeutic changes are highlighted.Psychotherapists have been interested in the effects of individual therapy on the client's significant others, particularly the spouse, for several decades (

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“…Family therapists have strongly held that psychotherapy does not occur in an interpersonal vacuum and that the members of the identified patient's primary social group are significantly affected by the patient's professional relationship with the therapist. Hatcher and Hatcher (1983) conducted a survey analysis of the spouses and parents of patients who were receiving individual psychotherapy. Their data showed that these relatives were not only affected by the intrusive realities of time, money, and emotional intimacy that they had to share with an unknown therapist (by means of what the family-member patient shared with the therapist), but they were also plagued by their own fantasies and anxieties over being talked about and blamed for their significant others' problems.…”

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The evolution of psychotherapy and the concept of manualization: An integrative perspective.

Scaturo

2001

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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In this article, the author examines some historical perspectives that may help psychologists who have recently been reading more about manualized treatments decide how to incorporate such information into contemporary practice. Even before the "age of manualization," each of the major schools of psychotherapy-psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems therapy-suffered from their own respective limitations in being unable to be exhaustive or definitive about the complexities that routinely take place in clinical practice. Perspectives on the role of manualized psychotherapy, the role of nonspecific factors and the therapeutic alliance, and the respective roles of professionalism and behavioral technology are discussed.In recent years, there has been a movement toward what has been termed the manualization (e.g., Garfield, 1992b) and the textbook practice (Scaturo & McPeak, 1998) of psychotherapy. The development of treatment manuals has emerged from a number of multistudy projects on psychotherapy from various academic research centers across the country. Excellent examples include the behaviorally oriented work on anxiety disorders (e.g., Craske & Barlow, 1989) from Barlow's (1992) Anxiety Research Clinic, time-limited psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy (e.g., Strupp & Binder, 1984) from the Vanderbilt Center for Psychotherapy Research (Henry & Strupp, 1992), and interpersonally oriented psychotherapy (e.g., Klerman, Weissman, Rounsaville, & Chevron, 1984) from the New Haven-Boston Collaborative Depression Research Project. Therapy manuals differ not only in their theoretical orientation but also in their degree of specificity and step-by-step, session-by-session procedural guidelines. DOUGLAS J. SCATURO received his PhD from Claremont Graduate University. He is team leader of the outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), VA Healthcare Network, Upstate New York at Syracuse. He is also a clinical faculty member in the

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Set a place for Elijah: Problems of the spouses and parents of psychotherapy patients.

Cited by 9 publications

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Effects of psychotherapy on significant others.

Effects of psychotherapy on significant others.

Couples' accounts of the effects of individual psychotherapy.

The evolution of psychotherapy and the concept of manualization: An integrative perspective.

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