This Week We Will Be Studying Emotionally Focused Therapy

Discussion Board 10.1This week we will be studying Emotionally Focused Therapy, a family therapy approach that is heavily promoted as the most evidence-based family therapy approach and the Narative Therapy approach. You are asked to (1) provide a brief definition (in your own words) of both Therapy models and what makes them unique, (2) explain one concept or key term from this theoretical model (again in your own words), and (3) Explain what you see as one strength or one weakness of these models.Narrative therapy is an approach to family counseling that that believes alleviates the blames from the Identified Patient, nor the couple, and believes that the clients can actually minimize the impact of the problem in their lives when they understand the problem better. This approach is unique as it is suited for overcoming addictions. Emotionally Focused Therapy on the other hand acknowledges the role of emotions in an intimate relationship, and therefore seeks to understand both the patient’s personal emotions and emotional response. The key term in narrative therapy is the narrative. A narrative is how the client believes the problem to be. When the narrative is simplified to separate it from the individual, the problem