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Marital and Family Therapy

Category - Ongoing

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You are working with Jeanine, whose husband, Peter, refuses to come to therapy. Your main concern revolves around whether or not this marriage will work. Peter still refuses to come in, even after eight weeks of therapy. How do you continue treatment?
  1. Shift focus to give Jeanine power to make individual change
  2. You don’t; it would be leading her on to think there was hope.
  3. Demand that Peter become a part of the work.
  4. Think of it as helpful if you were to broach divorce.
Explanation
Answer - A - Giving advice is not really the way to continue or terminate treatment. Neither is demanding that one person participate whether or not the other is participating. Instead, you can work to focus the power of individual change, encouraging Jeanine to make changes at home, even without Peter coming in to therapy. The odds are that Jeanine will soon see a difference in her reception at home.
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