The Universal Dimensions of Change: A Systematic Review of Couple Techniques

Title

The Universal Dimensions of Change: A Systematic Review of Couple Techniques

Creator

Rajendrakumar J.; Manjula V.; George T.S.; Wesley M.S.

Description

One can find a rich set of empirically evaluated techniques across different schools in couple therapy over its evolution of five decades. Though there are multiple systematic reviews and analyses of couple intervention studies, none focus on reviewing the universal dimensions of change across therapeutic techniques. Understanding the common areas of change would enable integrated learning across therapy modalities for novice therapists. Therefore, the aim is to identify the techniques employed in couple intervention research and categorize their change dimensions. We examined 40 articles on couple interventions published across 16 journals and identified 111 techniques. The five therapeutic change dimensions, namely behavior, cognition, emotion, attachment, and holistic, were categorized based on the common factor integration of techniques. The identified techniques were further classified under the five dimensions using the voting procedure to validate the universality of change dimensions. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Source

Contemporary Family Therapy, Vol-45, No. 4, pp. 371-393.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer

Subject

Change dimensions; Common factors integration; Couple intervention; Marital therapy; Review; Techniques; Training

Coverage

Rajendrakumar J., Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to be University), Dharmaram College Post, Hosur Road, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Manjula V., Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to be University), Dharmaram College Post, Hosur Road, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; George T.S., Department of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to be University), Dharmaram College Post, Hosur Road, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Wesley M.S., Client Engagement, Silver Oak Health, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 8922764

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-022-09645-6

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