Origin Interpretations, Origin Issues

Finally, there are couples who come to counseling as a last resort; they are not very committed to each other anymore and hold little hope for continuing their relationship.

Either directly or indirectly, you need to obtain a clear idea of where the couple you are interviewing ?ts along this continuum. The Stuart Couples’ Precounseling Inventory provides each client with questions that interviewers can use to assess commitment without asking about it directly in front of the other partner during an interview . Additional couple relationship measures range from the 280 item Marital Satisfaction Scale to the 32 item Dyadic Adjustment Scale .

Family of Origin

It is certainly not feasible to devote a great deal of time to each person’s upbringing and family of origin relationship patterns, but it helps to at least get an overview of this imInterviewing Couples and Families 355portant area, both in couple and family work. You can gain a great deal of information by designing your intake paperwork to include the family history of each member of the couple with regard to relationships, deaths, divorces, and so on. It is also helpful to know about siblings’ marriages. However, beginning interviewers may have the following question when working with couples: Should I interpret the couple’s unresolved family of origin issues early on? Despite our belief that unresolved family of origin issues can strongly in?uence couple or marital interaction, we strongly advise against family of origin

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