Our current resources for couples include:
1 Conjoint therapy for couples where both partners attend together and are seen by one or two therapists.
2 Separate individual or group therapy for each partner.
3 Four-way therapy in which each has their own therapist (or group) and
both are seen together for supplementary sessions by both therapists. This combines the advantages of the first two approaches.
4 Couples groups in which three or four couples meet on a regular basis with two therapists for self-help work focused on both the pair and the person. We are inviting referrals for this new initiative but all the approaches described here are available.
5 Family therapy in which the children and either or both of their parents meet regularly.
Evaluation and evidence-base:
Couples' own experience of the group's helpfulness will be monitored with an evaluation schedule. The benefits will also be monitored with a customised instrument to evaluate group participation and change. In addition we may use standardised instruments that evaluate marital tension and conflict. They are brief and non-intrusive and despite their simplicity offer both validity and reliability. The measures can be administered when people join the group, then during the course of therapy and at its conclusion. Results can be correlated with the outcomes of the ART treatments and will be of interest to those in medicine and psychology
Jane Haynes: is a Member of the Society for Analytical Psychology and Clinical Consultant to the Eastern European Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, St. Petersburg. She is in full-time private practice and has a special interest in creativity, relationships and problems of infertility. Her most recent publication is the first UK text on the psychology of assisted reproduction, Inconceivable Conceptions: psychological perspectives on assisted reproductive technology, (Brunner Routledge, 2003).
John Schlapobersky: is a Training Analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis and Associate, Society for Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy. He is in private practice and has a special interest in creativity, relationships and trauma. He has run couples groups for many years. He is Consultant Psychotherapist to the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture and to the Traumatic Stress Clinic, University College Hospital. He was the editor of Robin Skynner's selected clinical work and has other publications of his own in the field
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