Couple And Family Therapy Discussion

Couple and Family TherapyStudent’s NameDepartment, Institutional AffiliationCourse Code: Course NameInstructor’s NameDue DateCouple and Family TherapyQuestion 1Discourse analysis indicates that language is not a neutral medium as most people perceive it. There is an inexorable link between language as a form of discourse as well as social action, a reason why discourse analysis is used investigate psychotherapeutic processes (Diorinom & Tseliou, 2014). In one of the therapeutic sessions, I listened to a client that has experienced abuse in marriage for more than a decade. I used motivational interviewing and circular questioning as a means of determining the client’s problem while facilitating her to open up. I applied empathetic or therapeutic listening in a bid to get information from the client’s perspective. I tried to assume the client’s frame of reference as a means of determining why she could withstand an abusive marriage for a decade. Rather than listening to the client’s message alone, I used empathetic listening to relate her experiences with my own. Based on her disturbed psychological state, I was pushed to