Contextual assessment of couples therapy: the Clinical Discourse Q-Sets.

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：:The Delphi methodology was used to explore common factors across theories of marriage and family therapy (MFT). Leading clinicians and researchers from the American Family Therapy Academy and select faculty members from MFT training programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Blow AJ,Sprenkle DH

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:In this article, we discuss the role of the therapist in change in couple and family therapy. We argue that the therapist is a key change ingredient in most successful therapy. We situate our discussion in the common factors debate and show how both broad and narrow common factor views involve the therapist as a centr...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Blow AJ,Sprenkle DH,Davis SD

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People's attributions for their own psychological problems are linked to their interpersonal behaviors and attitudes. However, depressed individuals' inferences about their romantic partners' attributions for their depressive symptoms have yet to be studied in relation to their perceptions of relationship quality. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Blais RK,Renshaw KD

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an overview of the political implications of various approaches to gender within the clinical literature. It emphasizes the process of therapy within the social context of gender relations and identifies the political consequences of various clinical responses. Issues surrounding the appropriate ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Knudson-Martin C

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Efforts to change the sexual orientation of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals to heterosexual are referred to as conversion therapy. Given the religious groundings that support the practice of conversion therapy, we sought to explore the beliefs of Christian religious leaders about this practice and what th...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： McGeorge CR,Coburn KO,Walsdorf AA

更新日期：2020-08-05 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：:The myth of problem-free living is easily identifiable in Western culture through its childhood fairy tales and modern love stories. Even if inadvertently, the field of mental health perpetuates this myth with the very concept of "mental health," which implies a state without suffering. Using mindfulness, Buddhists as...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Gehart DR,McCollum EE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Several family-based treatments of conduct disorder and delinquency in adolescents have emerged as evidence-based and, in recent years, have been transported to more than 800 community practice settings. These models include multisystemic therapy, functional family therapy, multidimensional treatment foster care, and,...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Henggeler SW,Sheidow AJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have written about family secrets in the family therapy literature in interesting ways. According to these authors, the questions "who knows the secret?" and "who does not know the secret?" are central. In the present study, we have qualitatively analyzed the documentary film Familiegeheim (Family Secr...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Rober P,Walravens G,Versteynen L

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:This study examines the role of religious coping in couples' diabetes management processes. Eighty-seven couples where one spouse had type 2 diabetes were surveyed. The relationships between religious coping (positive and negative), shared glycemic control activities (e.g., planning a healthy diet), and glycemic contr...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Fincham FD,Seibert GS,May RW,Wilson CM,Lister ZD

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Professional accreditation of graduate programs in marital and family therapy (MFT) is intended to ensure the strength of the education students receive. However, there is great difficulty in assessing the real-world impact of accreditation on students. Only one measure is applied consistently to graduates of all MFT ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Caldwell BE,Kunker SA,Brown SW,Saiki DY

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:This Delphi study surveyed an interdisciplinary panel of diversity expert trainers (N=20) about what white mental health professionals need to understand about whiteness. The panel endorsed 162 items that included what white mental health professionals need to understand about historical and contemporary whiteness wit...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Baima T,Sude ME

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although burnout in the helping professions is well documented, few studies have examined the phenomenon of the resilient therapist. This study used a grounded theory methodology to construct a theory of therapist resilience. The participants were eight licensed marital and family therapists: five females, three males...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Clark P

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:A common goal of couples' therapy is to help individuals modify their view of each other and the relationship. Distorted views and appraisals contribute to conflict, and these can be manifest by use of rationalization or denial. This study explored appraisal distortion as an evaluative and moral process that occurs du...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Whiting JB

更新日期：2008-01-01 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