The influence of religious and ethnic differences on marital intimacy: intermarriage versus intramarriage.

abstract：:This study tested the theory that mindfulness contributes to greater intimate relationship satisfaction by fostering more relationally skillful emotion repertoires. A sample of married couples was administered measures of mindful awareness, emotion skills, and marital quality. We hypothesized that mindfulness would be...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Wachs K,Cordova JV

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family systems perspective was used to explore familial transactional patterns related to anorexia nervosa. Father, mother and daughter, interpersonal assessments of parental initiative and daughter responsive behaviors as reported on Benjamin's (1974) Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB), were combined to ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Grigg DN,Friesen JD,Sheppy MI

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increased empirical and theoretical support for common factors in the psychotherapy literature, marriage and family therapy (MFT) scholars have begun discussing the inclusion of common factors in MFT training. However, there is very little empirical research on common factors training or how to include common...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Fife ST,D'Aniello C,Scott S,Sullivan E

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the need to develop objective assessment tools in different cultures is well-recognized, there is a severe lack of objective measures about emotional functioning in the Chinese context. This project conducted three studies to validate the Chinese version of the Differentiation of Self Inventory (DSI). Study 1...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Lam CM,Chan-So PC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a qualitative analysis of the experience of parenting of mothers with dissociative disorders. This analysis was performed to complement the quantitative analysis of problems of mothers with dissociative disorders that Benjamin, Benjamin, and Rind (1996) presented previously. They found that the f...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Benjamin LR,Benjamin R,Rind B

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Marriage and family therapy (MFT) faculty and graduate students rated the "typical" or predictable behaviors of husbands or wives coming for therapy using the Georgia Marriage Q-sort. Scores were compared with previously published scores for both "ideal" couples (i.e., showing positive behaviors, attitudes, and proble...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Ro HS,Wampler RS

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:In this article, we provide examples of participatory qualitative evaluation methods that can be used within family therapy training programs. These methods can elicit useful feedback to improve programs and, at the same time, empower trainees to become partners in the evaluation process. ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Deacon SA,Piercy FP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few qualitative research studies have been conducted on change processes in couples therapy, and even fewer have focused on the clients' perceptions of change processes. In this grounded theory qualitative study on marital therapy, clients' perceptions and experiences of pivotal moments are identified. Analysis of tra...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Helmeke KB,Sprenkle DH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a method for creating highly contextual assessments of couples therapy interaction using concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). According to SFL, talk in interaction serves three primary functions: to mediate social relations, to negotiate representations of reality, and to organiz...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Kogan SM,Walters LH,Daniels T

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：:This article presents part of the findings of a study of psychological abuse and physical violence in couples who voluntarily entered therapy. The study found that most of the men exhibited patterns of deception, devaluation, and dictatorial attitudes with their women partners and that these patterns were a considerab...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Jory B,Anderson D

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Starting from examples of postmodern research and therapeutic practice, we raise the question on the role of the research-therapy dichotomy within these approaches. The article aims to show the profound convergence between postmodern ethnographic research and constructionist, collaborative therapeutic approaches on a ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： De Haene L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protracted conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and an all-volunteer military has resulted in multiple war zone deployments for many service members. While quick redeployment turnaround has left little time for readjustment for either the service member or family, dealing with the long-term sequelae of combat exposure...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Gerlock AA,Grimesey J,Sayre G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foster care faces serious challenges, such as behavioral problems in foster children and parental stress and ineffective parenting behavior in foster parents. The results of a pilot study that evaluated a training program for foster parents based on nonviolent resistance are described. In a pretest-posttest design, da...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Van Holen F,Vanderfaeillie J,Omer H

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Intervention research for couples and families managing chronic health problems is in an early developmental stage. We reviewed randomized clinical trials of family interventions for common neurological diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes, which is similar to the content of previous reviews discuss...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Shields CG,Finley MA,Chawla N,Meadors WP

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Introduced by Sprenkle, Blow & Dickey (1999), common factors in marriage and family therapy (MFT) have been discussed over the past two decades. Although the MFT common factors literature has grown, there are misconceptions and disagreements about their role in theory, practice, research, and training. This content an...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： D'Aniello C,Fife ST

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：:Parenting a child with Down syndrome may pose unique challenges for parents' relationship quality. This study used structural equation modeling with a sample of 351 mothers of children with Down syndrome to test if hope mediated the association between mothers' various coping behaviors and mothers' relationship qualit...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Cless JD,Nelson Goff BS,Durtschi JA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-stress individuals may benefit from social support, although their support providers may be adversely affected via stress crossover effects. Individual and crossover effects of perceived stress within medical student marriages (n = 30) were investigated. Perceived spousal support was positively associated with in...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Katz J,Monnier J,Libet J,Shaw D,Beach SR

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Couples are increasingly utilizing newly developed online adaptations of couple therapy; however, different presenting problems could drive couples to seek either online or in-person services. This study compared the presenting problems of 151 couples seeking an online couple intervention for relationship distress (Ou...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Roddy MK,Rothman K,Cicila LN,Doss BD

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas most existing differentiation measures are grounded in Bowen's writings about differentiation, the self-report instrument created in this study addresses differentiation according to the Four Points of Balance articulated by the Crucible Approach. The Crucible Differentiation Scale (CDS) is a 63-item, Likert-t...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Schnarch D,Regas S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an attachment theoretical perspective of long-distance romantic relationships (LDRs). Attachment applies specifically to the separation-reunion cycle that is an inherent aspect of LDRs. Attachment theory components and normative functioning are presented along with illustrative examples from LDR ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Carole Pistole M

更新日期：2010-04-01 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