Working With Couples in the Correctional System

Name: Working With Couples in the Correctional System
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ISBN: 978-1-4338-3376-2

With Corinne C. Datchi

ISBN: 978-1-4338-3376-2

February 2022

Item # 4310028

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Description

In this video, Dr. Corinne Datchi demonstrates a focused and integrative approach to treating couples and families involved in the criminal justice system, one that emphasizes the unique concerns of this population.

This integrative approach is based on the core principles of functional family therapy, an evidence-based intervention program that views the client as a relational system embedded in broader systems, and problems as behaviors that occur in stable relational patterns. In this therapy, individual behaviors, meanings, and emotions influence each other and the patterns of the relationship, and therapeutic change is an alliance-based process with phase-specific goals.

In this program, Dr. Datchi demonstrates and discusses assimilative integration concepts and techniques adapted to functional family therapy for clinical practice with adult populations in criminal justice systems and couples in particular. Dr. Datchi demonstrates interventions such as reframing, empathic joining, emotion regulation techniques, and other behavioral skills to improve communication and problem solving and discusses her work with Dr. Linda Berg-Cross.

This session features clients portrayed by actors on the basis of a composite of different cases.

Approach

Treating families in the criminal justice system is based on the core principles of functional family therapy (FFT), an evidence-based family intervention program. Assimilative integration was the method used to adapt FFT for clinical practice with adult populations in criminal justice systems and couples in particular.

Concepts and techniques from behavioral couple therapy (O’Farrell & Fals-Stewart, 2006), integrative behavioral couple therapy (Jacobsen & Christensen, 1996), and John Gottman’s (1999) research were integrated into the home theory of FFT. In FFT, the client is seen as a relational system embedded in broader systems; problems are behaviors that occur in stable relational patterns; individual behaviors, meanings, and emotions influence each other and the patterns of the relationship; and therapeutic change is an alliance-based process with phase-specific goals.

Relational risk factors specific to couple relationships include criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling, contempt, emotional disengagement, gridlock conflict, vilification, coercion and polarization. The therapist selects interventions purposefully to achieve specific goals at each stage of treatment.

Contributor bios

Corinne C. Datchi is associate professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, William Paterson University. She is a fellow of APA and a licensed psychologist with board certification in couple and family psychology.

Her research and clinical practice focus on correctional populations, incarceration, reentry, problem-solving justice, and gender. She has published many journal articles and book chapters on women’s issues, family therapy, offender rehabilitation, and qualitative research methods; and has expertise in the implementation and evaluation of community-based family-focused programs for youth and adults in the criminal justice system.

Her most recent contributions are two coedited volumes: Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System published by New York University Press in 2017, and Integrative Couple and Family Therapies: Treatment Models for Complex Clinical Issues published by APA Books in 2019.

Corinne Datchi is also the 2019-2020 president of the Society for Couple and Family Psychology (APA Division 43).

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