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Showing 1 to 20 of 1777 for “"couple"”.
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To Couple or not to Couple? Exploring Vibronic Coupling in Organic Semiconductors
… low-frequency coherent phonons can emerge and couple to excitons in radical emitters. This interaction is proposed to provide alternate, efficient channels for radiative relaxation, especially under low-drive conditions. Charge separation at donor–acceptor interfaces is central to OSC function. …
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Couple Play As A Predictor Of Couple Bonding, Physical Health And Emotional Health
Traditional couple counseling research focused on why people end relationships, with research only recently addressing what factors contribute to relationship satisfaction and stability. Yet, throughout this research, minimal attention has been paid to the role of play in couple counseling. The …
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Acquired Hearing Impairment in Older Couple Relationships: an Exploration of Couple Resilience Processes
… loss affects basic communication processes, couples often have to adjust their ways of interacting when one spouse develops a hearing loss. Extant literature presents relevant information about couple relationships in later life, individual adaptation to a hearing loss, and couple …
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Mental health and couple communication
The current research study explored couple communication from a social-cognitive theoretical perspective in couples with one spouse/partner diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The study consisted of two groups that included couples with one spouse/partner diagnosed with MDD who were …
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Faulkner's Marginal Couple and the Community
… community's sense of itself. These alternative couples challenge mainstream Faulkner critics' assessment of gender, which derives largely from Cleanth Brooks's argument that Faulkner created active men who follow a code of honor and passive women who are close to nature.
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Collateral Benefits Of A Brief, Couple-Focused Intervention On Coparenting: Indirect Effects Through Couple Relationship Quality And Conflict
… whether participation in a brief, online, couple-focused relationship intervention has collateral benefits to coparenting (i.e., how two parents coordinate in their parenting roles), indirectly through improvements in couple relationship quality and conflict frequency, respectively. A …
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Kin, kith, and same-sex couple quality
… maps the social networks of lesbian and gay couples and shows how their networks affect couple relationship quality. Respondents had to be ages 30 to 55 inclusive, living together at least one year, without children, and residing in Washington State. Recruitment of equal numbers of women and …
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Exploring couple relationships in challenging coparenting contexts
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. School of Social Work, 2010
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Exploring the variation within situational couple violence
… with violent coercive control and situational couple violence being the most prominent. There are approximately 6 million cases of situational couple violence each year, and yet this type of violence is mostly understood in comparison to the other types. As researchers differentiate between …
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Investigation of edge effects in thermoacoustic couple measurements
… stacks of short plates, called thermoacoustic couples or TACs, revealed serious discrepancies between theory and experiment. The discrepancies are worst at higher drive ratios (the ratio of the peak acoustic pressure amplitude at a pressure antinode to the mean pressure of the gas), where …
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Reflexive audiencing practices for couple relationships-in-action
This doctoral study offers couples opportunities to be audiences to their own lives as a couple. It does this on the premise that a reflexive, recursive, process of acting and reviewing and acting enhances relationship possibilities. The study researches what couples say about their experiences of …
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The focusing-oriented approach applied to couple therapy
Many couple therapists prefer an integrative approach to working with couples. They also have shown more interest in the humanistic approach in recent times than they used to do in the past. However there has been almost no discussion in the literature of how the focusing-oriented approach can be …
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On couple stress in the mechanics of materials
The couple stress theory as presented by Mindlin, Koiter, Stokes and others is reviewed with particular attention being given to stress concentration and size effects. That theory is compared on a qualitative and quantitative basis with Neuber's theory for stress concentration for very small or …
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Parental couple experiences of transracial adoption : a phenomenological study
… This qualitative study aimed to explore parental couples’ experiences of transracial adoption and was located within a phenomenological framework. In-depth interviews were conducted with three couples and the data were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Six themes were …
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The Post-Combat Couple Adjustment Questionnaire: A Preliminary Validation
… the preliminary validation of The Post-Combat Couple Adjustment Questionnaire (PCCAQ). This measure was designed to assess post-combat and post-deployment adjustment for male veterans and their female partners. The measure was created using existing literature on veterans, posttraumatic stress …
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Couple Therapy Process and Its Relation to Therapy Outcome
… and therapist common factors and outcomes of couple therapy. The sample was 40 couples presenting with mild to moderate psychological and physical abuse and who received ten sessions of couple therapy at a university-based clinic. The study investigated relations of client common factor …
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The Meaning of Marriage to the Voluntarily Childless Couple
… been done to explore what marriage means to the couple who chooses childlessness. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of marriage to the voluntarily childless couple.</p> <p>Method. This study was done with a purposive sample of 42 couples. These couples were selected …
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Co-Constructing Cultural Attunement with Latino Clients in Couple Therapy
… is a need for culturally attuned approaches for couple’s therapy with Mexican/ Mexican-American people (Falicov, 2009). However, there have been few theoretical frameworks to conceptualize cultural attunement, and attunement has been primarily understood as a skill or as an attitude rather than …
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