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：: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：:In an effort to understand how psychotherapy is practiced in the "real world," outpatient claims data were examined to determine the cost of individual and family therapy provided by marital and family therapists, master's nurses, master's social workers, medical doctors, psychologists, or professional counselors. Cla...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Russell Crane D,Payne SH

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to conduct an action-oriented evaluation of an in-home family therapy program serving families deemed at risk for the placement of children in foster care. In this study, feedback was solicited from both clients and therapists. Results indicate "duality" associated with several aspects of...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： McWey LM,Humphreys J,Pazdera AL

更新日期：2011-04-01 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 order to compete in a financially sensitive health care system, family systems-based treatments must demonstrate effective clinical results as well as cost-effectiveness. Cost-effectiveness research can demonstrate to health care insurers and policy makers which treatments are viable options for implementation. The...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Morgan TB,Crane DR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 60% of accredited MFT master's programs now offer a single course devoted to diversity and oppression, which is noteworthy given that this is not mandated by accreditation standards. For educators and trainers seeking guidance on how to most effectively teach diversity issues and train therapists who wil...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Laszloffy T,Habekost J

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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 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：: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：: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：: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：:Domestic violence rates among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are higher than those of the general population. Individuals who have been diagnosed with PTSD who seek couples therapy with their partners constitute an understudied population. Self-report measures of domestic violence, relationship sat...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Sherman MD,Sautter F,Jackson MH,Lyons JA,Han X

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing mental health needs of diverse populations, emphasizing cultural diversity, and recruiting ethnic minority students are important foci of current of marriage and family therapy training programs. However, the profession has made little progress in identifying the needs and experiences of its international ...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Mittal M,Wieling E

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have investigated therapist interns' growth experiences, both personal and professional, and the interplay between them. This qualitative study explored the reciprocal process of growth during clinical training: the personal life experiences that affect professional growth and the professional/clinical exp...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Paris E,Linville D,Rosen K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equality is related to relationship success, yet few couples achieve it. In this qualitative study, we examine how couples with children in two time cohorts (1982 and 2001) moved toward equality. The analysis identifies three types of couples: Postgender, gender legacy, and traditional. Movement toward equality is fac...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Knudson-Martin C,Mahoney AR

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：:Enactments are a potential common clinical process factor contributing to positive outcomes in many relational therapies. Enactments provide therapists a medium for mediating relationships through simultaneous experiential intervention and change at multiple levels of relationships--including specific relationship dis...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Davis SD,Butler MH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we present the results of a discovery-oriented task analysis research study identifying specific therapist behaviors that facilitate softening events in emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples. Therapy sessions conducted by an expert EFT therapist were examined. Six therapist content theme shifts...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Bradley B,Furrow JL

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Using a stress and coping framework, we examined the influence of caregiving stressors, social support, and caregiving appraisal on the marital functioning of 100 African American wife caregivers. Results of separate multivariate analyses revealed received church support, caregiving burden, and caregiving satisfaction...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Chadiha LA,Rafferty J,Pickard J

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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 purpose of this study is to advance our understanding of how doctoral students perceive postmodernism's influence in the field of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT). According to the literature, postmodernism has had a profound impact on many fields, including MFT. However, tracking of how postmodernism is actually...

journal_title：Journal of marital and family therapy

authors： Wieling E,Negretti MA,Stokes S,Kimball T,Christensen FB,Bryan L

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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