Questions:
1 Couples who fight passively must:
2 Partners that become openly angry and rage at each other must:
3 If one partner is an aggressive fighter and the other passive, the aggressive fighter must:
4 According to this model, an important factor in taking a “Time Out” is:
5 If one partner is at level 1 and the other partner at level 2 in the Relationship Investment-Commitment Scale, the prognosis for reconciliation through counseling is:
6 In-house separations work best when:
7 If a trial separation is chosen:
8 According to this model, a psychological separation involves:
9 A Therapeutic separation is:
10 In sharing and caring for children, the best things that parents can do for them, especially during a period of separation is:
11 The choices partners have after a defined period of separation and evaluation period is:
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Answers:
A. Accept responsibility for his/her anger, Learn better ways to manage anger, and Learn not to blame and criticize his/her partner.
B. They are short-term and offer couples a cool down period during a particularly intense time of conflict or crisis, Ground rules are established and agreed to so that family business and childcare can be carried out, and Both partners are able to distance, detach from each other, and learn to control anger and conflict while living under the same roof.
C. A working separation that focuses energy back on changing the patterns in a relationship
D. Learn how to express feelings and communicate what they need
E. For the partner calling the “Time Out” to return after a cool down period to continue talking productively about the issue that caused conflict
F. Partners must not go into the separation expecting that they will automatically reunite.
G. Learn to manage and control conflict, Get children out of the middle and Not use the children against the other parent.
H. Learn to calm their anger, Learn to disengage and take a time out to cool down so they may return and take turns being heard and validated, and Continue to manage feelings that are triggered so as to reduce power plays and struggles.
I. Improved since both partners are willing to look at change
J. Focusing on and working with one partner’s part of the pattern.
K. Break up or divorce since goals of a separation are not working, Consider a Trial Union toward goal of reunification, and Extend their separation time because more time may be necessary to evaluate whether goals are working.
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