Title: Success in Couples and Family Therapy: Characteristics and Strategies for Maintaining Progress Success in couples and family therapy involves achieving positive changes in the dynamics and functioning of the couple or family system. Unlike individual therapy, the focus is on the interactions

Describe what success in couples and family therapy entails and how this might differ from success in individual therapy. In your description, be sure to address specific characteristics you might observe in a successful therapy session or a successful therapy series.
• Compare your current definition of success in therapy with couples and families with your definition from
Week 1. Explain which elements of the course shifted, expanded, or reinforced your understanding.
• Given that couples and family therapy is often intentionally brief, describe how you would advise a couple or family who has achieved success to maintain and/or extend the progress they have made in therapy.