{"id":1032,"date":"2026-02-27T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:20:50","slug":"violence-and-couples-therapy-an-article-by-barbara-slawik-published-in-the-journal-niebieska-linia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/violence-and-couples-therapy-an-article-by-barbara-slawik-published-in-the-journal-niebieska-linia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cViolence and Couples Therapy\u201d \u2013 an article by Barbara S\u0142awik published in the journal \u201cNiebieska Linia\u201d \ud83d\udcd6\ud83d\udcda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\ud83d\udce2 We are pleased to share that the latest issue of the bimonthly journal\u00a0\u201cNiebieska Linia<\/strong>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(1\/162\/2026) features an article by Barbara S\u0142awik titled\u00a0\u201cViolence and Couples Therapy. Working within the EFT Model<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\ud83d\udcd8 The author was invited to write this piece in the autumn of 2025 by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Katarzyna Mi\u0142kowska. We are glad that, despite the challenges and numerous uncertainties \u2013 described by the Editor-in-Chief in her introduction \u2013 currently faced by organizations working to prevent domestic violence (largely related to the funding of their activities), the article has now been published \u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This publication addresses a topic that evokes strong emotions among professionals: whether, and under what circumstances, couples therapy is possible in the context of violence. For this reason, Barbara S\u0142awik and Aneta Bukowska were invited in November to speak at a regular meeting of the Social Dialogue Sectoral Commission for the Prevention of Domestic Violence (HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article explains that not all violence in relationships is the same. A key distinction is made between\u00a0intimate terrorism\u00a0\u2013 which excludes couples therapy \u2013 and\u00a0situational couple violence, which arises from escalating conflicts and difficulties with emotional regulation. It is in the latter case \u2013 provided specific safety conditions are met \u2013 that Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) can become a pathway to interrupting the destructive cycle and rebuilding a secure emotional bond \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text is intended both for therapists interested in working with couples and for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the relational roots of intimate partner violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udcd6 Read the article online here:
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The article comes at a particularly meaningful moment. Those interested in the topic can now pre-order the Polish-language edition of a book devoted to working with violence in couples therapy within the EFT model, written by Barbara S\u0142awik\u2019s Belgian teachers \u2013 Lieven Migerode and Jeff Slotmaeckers \ud83d\udcd6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book has been published by Oficyna Zwi\u0105zek Otwarty \/ OZO under the patronage of the Polish EFT Association \u2013 HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cViolence and Couples Therapy\u201d \u2013 an article by Barbara S\u0142awik published in the journal \u201cNiebieska Linia\u201d \ud83d\udcd6\ud83d\udcda . \ud83d\udce2 We are pleased to share that the latest issue of the bimonthly journal\u00a0\u201cNiebieska Linia\u201d\u00a0(1\/162\/2026) features an article by Barbara S\u0142awik titled\u00a0\u201cViolence and Couples Therapy. Working within the EFT Model\u201d\u00a0\ud83d\udcd8 The author was invited to write this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalia.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}