Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Email: Joelle. Darwiche unil. IBSI aims to work on the couple's presenting problem, considering its specific impact in the marital and coparenting domains. The basic premise of IBSI is to consider that, when working with couples who have children, therapeutic work on their coparenting alliance may be used as a lever, as both parents may be particularly motivated to improve their relationship for their children's benefit.
Increasing the coparenting alliance may then facilitate work on deeper conflicts within the marital relationship. Therapeutic work following these main therapeutic principles is expected to improve the quality of both relationships. A clinical case is provided to illustrate the core therapeutic principles of IBSI. Keywords: brief intervention, coparenting, couple therapy, marital relationship, parents.
Nevertheless, couple therapy with parents has specific characteristics. First, coparenting conflict i. Therefore, targeting the coparenting relationship in couple therapy could also benefit children. Two uncontrolled effectiveness studies regarding the impact of marital counseling on several commonly assessed dimensions e. Another study Ledermann et al. The authors of these three studies suggested that to achieve effects for coparenting, a more tailored approach for parent couples would be more appropriate.
Some studies have demonstrated improved coparenting. Gattis et al. Moreover, coparenting conflict mediated the relationship between marital satisfaction and child adjustment Gattis et al. Lastly, a brief systemic intervention Vaudan et al. However, the increase in coparenting quality was not as strong as that for marital quality.
This is intriguing, as several studies showed a link between marital and coparenting quality e. The available findings suggest that including work on the coparenting relationship in couple therapy when appropriate improves coparenting Gattis et al.
