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Behav Ther. 2012 Mar;43(1):123-31. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2011.03.006. Epub 2011 Jun 1.
This paper provides a commentary on the special series on universal processes and common factors in couple therapy (Halford & Snyder, this issue). The authors in this section share their insights, from varying perspectives, about what it is in couples therapy and relationship education programs that work, why they work, and for whom they work best. In so doing, these articles address specific elements of couples interventions--in effect, taking a couples approach apart in order to understand it better. However, as a collection, this section takes this approach to understanding one step further. It puts the elements back together again, making the process of couples therapy/relationship education more accessible and easier to customize based upon the couple, the presenting complaints, the therapist, and the context. The term "deconstruction" is used to describe how the specific elements of couples interventions are understood and reassembled in new, theoretical, and empirically validated ways. It is argued here that once it is understood that a couples intervention works, why it works, and for whom it works, we are able to individualize our approach to specific couples in an effort to make couples therapy better at improving relationships and keeping them improved.
本文对关于夫妻治疗中普遍过程和共同因素的特刊（Halford 和 Snyder，本期）进行了评论。这一节的作者从不同的角度分享了他们的见解，即夫妻治疗和关系教育计划中哪些是有效的，为什么有效，以及对谁最有效。通过这样做，这些文章探讨了夫妻干预的具体要素——实际上，是为了更好地理解它，将夫妻干预的各个要素分离开来。然而，作为一个整体，这一部分在理解这一过程方面更进一步。它将这些要素重新组合在一起，使夫妻治疗/关系教育的过程更加容易理解，并根据夫妻、提出的投诉、治疗师和背景进行定制。“解构”一词用于描述如何以新的、理论上和经验上验证的方式理解和重新组合夫妻干预的具体要素。这里认为，一旦我们理解了夫妻干预是如何起作用的、为什么起作用以及对谁起作用，我们就能够针对特定的夫妻进行个性化的治疗方法，以使夫妻治疗更好地改善关系并保持改善。
