Qualitative evaluation of family therapy programs: a participatory approach.

abstract：:Partner-assisted emotional disclosure is a couple-based intervention designed to help patients disclose cancer-related concerns to their spouses-partners. We previously found that, compared with an education/support control condition, partner-assisted emotional disclosure led to significant improvements in relationshi...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Porter LS,Baucom DH,Keefe FJ,Patterson ES

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The borderline/schizoid marital constellation is the prominent constellation among borderline patients on a long-term inpatient unit. Treatment of this marital constellation, in which each spouse has a severe personality disorder, requires application of the concept of the holding environment as an essential treatment...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： McCormack CC

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes and discusses a teaching case of a clinical training situation involving a gay marriage and family therapy student working with a same-sex affectional couple. The conceptual pillars of this teaching case, relational safety and liberating spaces, are advanced as illustrations of how the student d...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Hernández P,Rankin P 4th

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sense of imbalance is common among both professors and therapists, though few studies have been published examining the work and personal life balance of those who work in both professions simultaneously. Using in-depth telephone interviews, this study examined the work and personal life balance of 16 marriage and f...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Matheson JL,Rosen KH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring attachment behaviors is relevant to creating secure couple relationships. This article seeks to test and examine the reliability and validity of the Brief Accessibility, Responsiveness, and Engagement (BARE) Scale-a practical measure of couple attachment-in a clinical sample. Couples took the BARE and other ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Sandberg JG,Novak JR,Davis SY,Busby DM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article offers an overview of the expanding field of couple therapy, focusing on what the author considers to be new and even revolutionary in this field. In terms of outcome research, this article suggests that differential treatment effects are discernable. Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) appears to demonstra...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Johnson SM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-help books, a pervasive and influential aspect of society, can have a beneficial or detrimental effect on the therapeutic process. This article describes a thematic analysis and feminist critique of the best-selling self-help book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. This analysis revealed that the author's ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Zimmerman TS,Haddock SA,McGeorge CR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to attachment theory, humans are relational beings and even a child's earliest experiences with caregivers have a profound effect on emotional development and an overall approach to relationships. With increasing regularity, couple therapy has utilized attachment language as a conceptual tool, but more work ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Seedall RB,Wampler KS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Play therapy and filial therapy show promise as effective ways to provide direct services to Head Start, addressing the needs of the children, the families, and the Head Start teachers and staff. This paper examines the utility of play and filial therapies for the Head Start population, presents a systemic explanation...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Johnson L,Bruhn R,Winek J,Krepps J,Wiley K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marriage and family services have not been widely recognized as part of employee assistance programs (EAP), although family and relational problems are widely cited as sources of problems on the job. EAP clients (N = 800, 97% self-referred) indicated how much family, psychological/emotional, drug, alcohol, employment-...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Shumway ST,Wampler RS,Dersch C,Arredondo R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common factors proponents discuss the benefits and methods of including common factors in marriage and family therapy (MFT) training; yet there are no empirical investigations of how common factors are incorporated into MFT curricula. The purpose of this study was to obtain a baseline understanding of common factors' ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： D'Aniello C,Fife ST

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidenced-based approaches continue to grow in the field of family therapy. However, practicing family therapists do not always embrace these approaches. In this article, we explore factors contributing to practitioners' concerns with evidence-based treatments and suggest a broader, more clinically palatable view of e...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Dattilio FM,Piercy FP,Davis SD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the status of the scientist-practitioner model in marriage and family therapy (MFT) doctoral programs. Issues discussed include a lack of faculty research role models in doctoral programs, "farming out" the majority of research courses to other disciplines, problems with curriculum, and how the culture of M...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Crane DR,Wampler KS,Sprenkle DH,Sandberg JG,Hovestadt AJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The valid and reliable assessment of individual and relational functioning relies on high-quality assessment tools. Most assessments used in the field of couple and family therapy were developed using Classical Test Theory (CTT). An alternate theory for guiding the creation, evaluation, and scoring of assessments is I...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Anderson SR,Miller RB

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family psychoeducation has emerged as a treatment of choice for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and other disorders. More than 30 randomized clinical trials have demonstrated reduced relapse rates, improved recovery of patients, and improved family well-being among participants. Interventions common...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： McFarlane WR,Dixon L,Lukens E,Lucksted A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This quantitative study investigated the ethical decision-making process of 177 Missouri members of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy using two in-session duty-to-warn scenarios of child abuse and HIV transmission. The components of the critical-evaluative level of ethical decision making includ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Burkemper EM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study signifies an initial step at giving family therapists an important assessment tool as they seek to increase cultural competence with Native American families and children. To determine the relevancy and consistency of utilizing a spiritual ecogram assessment tool with Native Americans, 50 Native American pa...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Limb GE,Hodge DR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, I present data from two waves of research on demographic characteristics and practice patterns of marriage and family therapists (MFTs) conducted in 2000 and 2002. The research focuses on the methodological and technological issues in studying this population. Specifically, an online survey with MFTs ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Northey WF Jr

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of therapeutic help in marital crisis is to break the vicious circle of mutual hurtful accusations. The method that the authors present below involves a group of couples working within a closed cycle of meetings. In the course of successive group meetings, the various couples act as reflecting teams (RTs) for ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： de Barbaro B,Drozdzowicz L,Janusz B,Gdowska K,Dembińska E,Kołbik I,Furgał M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little research has focused on the ways that eating disorder processes and adult couple dynamics influence one another. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reciprocal influence of couple dynamics and eating disorder illness and recovery processes. We conducted 51 interviews with 17 couples where one membe...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Linville D,Cobb E,Shen F,Stadelman S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative study examined the interactional communication strategies used by law enforcement officers during a hostage-taking incident at a high school. The research involved analysis of the negotiation conversation between police crisis (hostage) negotiators and a hostage taker who entered his former high schoo...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Charlés LL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common factors proponents have suggested the need for principle-based meta-models to explain how various factors interact with each other to produce change. The therapeutic pyramid is a common factors meta-model that outlines how therapeutic skills and techniques, the therapeutic alliance, and a therapist's way of bei...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Davis SD,Fife ST,Whiting JB,Bradford KP

更新日期：2020-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-help literature is pervasive and influential in the United States. A critical analysis of self-help books would help therapists to determine their utility for the therapeutic process and assist them in making reading recommendations to clients. In this study, a content analysis was conducted of the top 11 relatio...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Zimmerman TS,Holm KE,Starrels ME

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral couple therapy (BCT) and emotionally focused couples therapy (EFCT) are well-established treatments to reduce couple distress. This meta-analysis summarizes the current state of knowledge on the efficacy of these two therapy methods by focusing on randomized controlled trials only. A literature search revea...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Rathgeber M,Bürkner PC,Schiller EM,Holling H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one gay male couples and 28 lesbian couples were compared with 36 cohabiting heterosexual couples using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (MSI-R), a multidimensional measure of relationship functioning intended for use with both traditional and nontraditional couples. Analyses of scales' internal consi...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Means-Christensen AJ,Snyder DK,Negy C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although extensive research has found a strong relationship between poor family functioning and depression, previous research has not examined this relationship among low-income Latinos. In this study, we examined how family functioning may be associated with depression in a sample of low-income Latino couples. In add...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Sarmiento IA,Cardemil EV

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion of isomorphism has been recommended as a conceptual framework to guide the practice of marriage and family therapy (MFT) supervision. The term is frequently cited in the MFT training literature but is often used in different ways. A panel of MFT supervisors rated the importance and relevance to both therapy...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： White MB,Russell CS

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we attempted to achieve a culturally sensitive adaptation of the PREmarital Personal And Relationship Evaluation (PREPARE) Inventory with Japanese premarital couples (n = 849). A translation, back-translation, and construct modification process was initiated by a group of U.S. and Japanese researchers t...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Asai SG,Olson DH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT), as in many clinical disciplines, concern surfaces about the clinician/researcher gap. This gap includes a lack of accessible, practical research for clinicians. MFT clinical research often borrows from the medical tradition of randomized control trials, which typically use linear ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Oka M,Whiting J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article calls for greater collaboration between clergy and marriage and family therapists. It spells out the reasons for potential collaboration and suggests some specific ways it can occur. Marriage and family therapists acknowledge the highest rates of religious involvement of any mental health profession, plac...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Weaver AJ,Koenig HG,Larson DB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00