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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"couple relationships"”.
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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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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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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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The Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations of Younger LGB Couples in Long-term Relationships
… relationship experiences of younger LGB couples. It builds upon existing knowledge and understandings of LGB couple relationships and the lives of younger adults. The study utilised multiple qualitative methods informed by social science research on intimate relationships whilst …
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Konsten att lyckas som par : Populärterapeutiska berättelser, individualisering och kön
… therapeutic culture on and for heterosexual couples is analysed. Three case studies have been carried out; self-help books for couples, TV programs with relationship-focus, and web discussion boards connected to the TV programs. The analysis is made in relation to sociological theories of …
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A Theoretical Construction of Gender Issues in Marital Therapy (Qualitative Research, Critical Socialization Theory, Object Relations, Theory Generation, Intimacy)
… outlines of a theory of gender issues in couple relationships and therapy. This "theory" is presented in the form of an interpretive story about a particular couple constructed using respondents' audiotaped or written assessments of a videotaped live therapy session, followed by a …
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The Influence of Inhibited Expression of Anger, Perceived Control by Partner, and Withdrawal Cognitions on the Association between Conflict and Relationship Dissolution
… the relation between conflict and dissolution of couple relationships. The study used assessment data from 69 couples who sought therapy at an outpatient therapy clinic, serving an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population. Analyses tested the main effects of the internal experience …
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Revolutionships: Experiences of Queer Women of Color Maintaining Romantic Relationships while Engaging in Contemporary Movements for Liberation
… survival. Nevertheless, some maintain romantic relationships that fall outside of the hegemonic frameworks of romance. While simultaneously resisting a settler colonial state that sanctions violence, environmental racism, and homophobia, QWOC are cultivating love in the face of oppressions they …
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The Grief Experience of Caregivers When the Child Has a Life Threatening Illness
… the impact of the child’s illness on the couple relationship was completed by six couples. The results indicated that experienced grief is significantly lower for parents or guardians with a Secure attachment style. The degree of grief experienced by parents could be predicted by whether …
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Married, Cohabiting, and Dating Couples Presenting for Couple and Family Therapy
… presenting concerns of different-sex cohabiting couples attending therapy. Research suggests that cohabiting and dating couples have lower levels of commitment, which makes their participation in therapy idiosyncratic (Smock, 2000). Information on this group of cohabiters and daters presenting …
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Trauma of the Sudden Death of a Child: The Impact on Couple Relationship
… can be very devastating and confusing for many couples and people tend to respond in different ways to such trauma due to different factors such as gender differences. Research studies have traditionally focused on the personal effects of trauma on individual family members, whereas less …
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Service Dogs for Wounded Warriors with PTSD: Examining the Couple Relational Experience
… most common. Social support provided by close relationships has been shown to be a buffer against PTSD symptoms. However, PTSD can also have devastating effects on couple relationships, hampering this form of social support. One promising intervention for PTSD has been the use of service dogs …
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The Impact of Involuntary Dislocation on Bulgarian Turkish Couples: A Psychosocial Approach from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
… Involuntary Dislocation (ID) and its impact on couple relationships. This research is innovative in so far as (a) it investigates families and couples relationships and not individuals, (b) it examines the ID phenomena from a unique combination of perspectives that includes psychoanalytic as …
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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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Marital Experience and Spirituality among Physician Couples
… spirituality interact in the lives of physician couples. Physicians’ increasing openness to spiritual issues inherent in treating the ill and suffering (King, 2000; Thorsen, Harris & Oman, 2001), the growing number of women entering the medical profession and becoming physician and dual physician …
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Couples coping with clusters: Lived experiences of cluster headache patients and partners
… Scant research has examined the impact of CH on couple relationships. There is also a paucity of research examining the lived experiences of individuals (partners) in committed romantic relationships with CH patients. When CH is conceptualized using the biopsychosocial-spiritual model and family …
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Buffering Effect of Relational Support in African American Marriages
… therapists with a model of relational support in couple relationships. SERT's definition formed the basis for the conceptualization of relational support in this study. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and actor-partner interdependence models we tested two theoretical models. In the first …
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How Coming to Terms with Difficulties in the Family of Origin Positively Influences Adult Children's Relationship/Marital Quality
… experiences are, the healthier adult children's relationships and marriages tend to be. The focus of this study was to investigate how coming to terms with difficulties experienced in the family of origin may enhance adult children's ability to create high quality relationships and marriages. The …
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