SWREN414R Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.7: Role Reversal, Relationship Counseling, Cognitive Therapy
4 Oct 2018
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Jealous persons who display bouts of anger towards their partners, either verbally or non-verbally, may need to be given help with anger control. In many couples both partners are locked into anger-driven interactions, and in these cases the victim partner may also need such help: behavioural and cognitive techniques such as those described by deffenbacher (1996) are applicable here, 2. Assertiveness and communication training: sometimes the victim partners may need help with ways of enhancing their assertiveness, this is parti(cid:272)ularly so (cid:449)he(cid:374), o(cid:448)er a period of ti(cid:373)e, they ha(cid:448)e si(cid:373)ply (cid:858)gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) up" a(cid:374)d assumed a passive role. Jealous partners also may need training in communication, if it transpires that they are unable to communicate their feelings in a controlled way (cf. Im, wilner & breit, 1983): well established behavioural marital therapy techniques have a clear role in this aspect of the treatment (e. g. jacobson & margolin, 1979), 3.
