Parejas sus problematicas y ambitos de intervención desde la clínica y la psicoterapia

Abstract

One of the main challenges in the field of mental health is to attend to couples who present conflicts in their relationship. The purpose of this theoretical study was to identify the main problems and clinical symptomatology experienced by couples, as well as the most effective psychotherapeutic approaches to address them. To this end, a systematic review was carried out, leaving 17 scientific articles as a result of the filtering process, whose sources were SCOPUS and Web of Science, corresponding to quartiles 1, 2 and 3; PRISMA was used for the screening and CONSORT for the analysis. The results indicate that lack of reflexivity in communication, infidelity and avoidant behaviors are common factors that can generate conflicts in couple relationships, and cause stress, relational distress, depression, lack of self-control, isolation and aggressive behaviors. To address this problem, several psychotherapeutic alternatives have been evaluated, being Systemic Family Therapy the main option due to its proven efficacy, in addition, it has been shown that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can also be effective in this problem.