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Brigham Young University
| Mark Butler, Marriage and Family Therapy |
Marriage and Family therapists utilize relationships to bring about change in family processes. Recent therapeutic advances suggest that enactments are an effective means for change in couple therapy. Enactments provide interventino in behalf of couples' interaction process by directing couples to speak to each other, with guidance when necessary, instead of to the therapist. Enactments enable therapists to target couples' unhealthy interaction patterns and to empower couples to change their fundamental interaction processes (Butler & Gardner, 2003). This study aims to empirically test whether enactments do indeed increase desired outcomes in relationship therapy, particularly couples' secure attatchment.