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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Marriage counseling."”.
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Dominance and Passivity in Marriage Counseling: 1962-1976
… that his wife during their thirty years of marriage has taken care of all their financial matters and has made all of the major decisions in their family. He said that he constantly kept that fact in mind when he approached a prospective sale among white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant families: he …
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Marriage Counseling : Definitions and Correlates of Success and Failure
… describe definitions of success and failure in marriage counseling held by those in the private practice of marriage counseling. Additionally, the author attempted to have practitioners identify client characteristics they believed to be associated with success and failure in marriage …
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An investigation of empathy as a socio-psychological process in group marriage counseling
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Sociology, 1954.
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A study of the function of the Family Society as a marriage counseling agency.
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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Lived experiences of divorced persons on lifelong learning counseling issues in Lusaka district, Zambia.
… divorced individuals to understand the role of counseling and lifelong learning in sustaining marriages. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological design, the research aimed to identify the root causes of divorce, assess the effectiveness of existing marriage counseling programs, and pinpoint …
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Conflict among clinic couples : self-monitoring, attributions, and resolution strategies
… individual spouses who were currently receiving marriage counseling completed four questionnaires: the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale; Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale; a Marital Conflict Questionnaire, a measure of attributions; and a Conflict Strategy Scale measuring the frequency with …
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Creating a Space in the Medical Profession: Female Physicians, Maternalism, and Eugenics Work in Weimar and Nazi Germany
… the history of female physicians' work in marriage counseling centers, in school health reform, and in the movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and in organizations like the Bund Deutscher Mädels (League of German Girls; …
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Value convergence as it relates to marital adjustment of twenty-five well-adjusted and twenty-five maladjusted couples in southeast Massachusetts
… so that both spouses feel satisfied with their marriage and with one another, develop common interests and activities, and feel that their marriage is fulfilling their expectations. Two major theoretical hypotheses were constructed which, summarily stated, posit a greater degree of terminal and …
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Supervision and Ongoing Training for Marriage and Family Therapists in Accredited Child and Family Service Agencies
… continuing need for supervision and training for marriage and family therapists in agencies accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children. Procedure. Twenty-six agency supervisors completed questionnaires designed to elicit information regarding their staff …
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Reconstituted Families: An Exploratory and Descriptive Study of Incomplete Institutionalization as a Perceived Problem
… media, formal education, or premarital family counseling. Many subjects also acknowledged their perceptions of creating the norms for persons in reconstituted families, rather than following developed norms. Conclusions. ln the dialectic between the individual and society, individuals are …
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The Use of Outcome Measures By Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists in Iowa
… the use of outcomes measures by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs) in Iowa. Secondary purposes of the study are to collect basic demographic and practice data on LMFTs in Iowa and to examine the relationships between LMFTs' use of outcome measures and demographic and practice …
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PROBLEMS AND SATISFACTION IN MARRIAGE: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY.
… exploration of problems and satisfaction in the marriages of 60 participants. The Marriage Adjustment and the Confidential questionnaire were administered to these participants in 1973 and again in 1981, and their results were examined both descriptively and empirically for female/male …
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Ahimsa: Indian women's experience of a narrative intervention using art and writing
Mental health services in general and marriage and family therapy in particular are underutilized by many ethnic minority and international populations. Models of marriage and family therapy practice have been developed in the west and reflect western values and norms that are inappropriate in …
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Contingency contracting for the treatment of marital discord
<p>The effectiveness of contingency contracting for treating marital distress was tested using a within couple multiple baseline design across responses. Two distressed couples participated. Both couples experienced marginal improvements as measured by a spouse-tracking procedure, One couple …
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The Effects of an Oral History Interview on Counselor Trainees' Confidence and Couples' Intimacy
… developed for this study to measure couple counseling confidence, the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1983), and the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships (Schaefer & Olson, 1981) were used to assess levels of counselor confidence, counselor anxiety, and couple …
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Couple's Relationship with Diabetes: Transformation, Partnership, and Management
This study used an MFT perspective to examine a model of three bio-psychosocial constructs, seeking to depict key dimensions of what makes couples successful in managing the demanding self-care regimen of diabetes. The model includes a meaning and emotion-oriented construct called relationship with …
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Negotiating Marital Care: Co-Creating the Connected Egalitarian Relationship
… In addition, this study enhances the field of marriage and family therapy in ways to not only bring about more awareness for couples but assist in creating more connection and equality within marriage. Finally, these findings highlight that partner negotiation is necessary at all stages of …
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Development of a Contextual Model for the Treatment of Infidelity
Family systems theory has a history of critique by feminists for ignoring larger societal processes, thus inadvertently assuming equality in processes that are not inherently equal (e. g., Goldner, 1985; Hare-Mustin, 1978). Current research suggests that gendered power processes continue to …
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