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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"marital therapy"”.
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The effect of marital therapy on inhibited sexual desire: An outcome study.
… were randomly assigned to Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) or a wait-list control group condition. An additional 15 couples were recruited as a non-ISD comparison sample. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of marital therapy (EFT) on ISD, and examine differences …
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Conjoint Marital Therapy: Proxy Voice Intervention and Softening in the Context of Couple Enactments
<p>This study evaluated the effectiveness of proxy voice intervention, embedded within couple enactments, on client-perceived softening. During enactments, direct couple interaction is the focus while the therapist coaches from the periphery. In the context of an enactment, the therapist may use …
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Exploring the meaning attached to seeking marital therapy among married African males in the Durban area
… into what it means for an African man to seek marital therapy when confronted with marital problems. The study also sought to understand the circumstances that often influence African men to consult with marital therapists. The barriers experienced by men towards utilising marital therapy were …
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A Comparison of the Marriage Checkup and Traditional Marital Therapy: Examining Distress Levels at Intake for Student Couples
… targeting couples at risk for severe marital distress. The purpose of this study was to examine married couples who participated in The Marriage Checkup for levels of individual and relational stress and severity of presenting problems recorded at intake. Differences were investigated …
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A Theoretical Construction of Gender Issues in Marital Therapy (Qualitative Research, Critical Socialization Theory, Object Relations, Theory Generation, Intimacy)
… enlisting the "ideas in use" of sixteen working marital therapists, this study seeks to generate the beginning 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 …
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Common and Model-Specific Factors: What Marital Therapy Model Developers, Their Former Students, and Their Clients Say About Change
… reviews of decades of comparative efficacy psychotherapy research consistently reveal that all tested models of marriage and family therapy (MFT) work, and they generally work equally well. Researchers have hypothesized that this may be due to factors common across models responsible for change. …
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Couples Sharing Recovery from a Husband's Addiction to Pornography: A Qualitative Study
This study evaluated the therapy process for married couples recovering from addictive use of pornography. The author's proposal was that in conjoint couple therapy, clinicians are able to help organize the relationship to sponsor recovery while helping both members of the relationship heal …
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Clients' Views Regarding the Inclusion of Religious Issues in Couple Therapy
… do not ask about or address religious issues in therapy. Argument is given for why religious issues should not be excluded from therapy as well as why religion has historically been avoided by many therapists. To understand what clients' views are on this issue, eight couples who had participated …
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Intimacy, marital satisfaction, and sexuality in mature couples
… the relationship between intimacy and marital satisfaction, as well as between intimacy and sexuality. Participants were 30 couples, with a mean age of 49. Participants had been involved in a romantic relationship for an average of 20 years. Couples were asked to complete a variety of …
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An IPA: orthodox Jewish women, adherence to the laws of family purity and the marital relationship
… and wife) and how such observance impacts their marital relationships. Interpretative phenomenological Analysis (lPA) was employed to access the lived experiences of these women. Analysis of the results highlighted the women's experience of physical separation from their spouse as paramount. This …
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Gender Effects on Recall, Clinical Judgement and Treatment Recommendations for a Combination of Major Depression and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms
… clinicians who did not recommend individual therapy were most likely to recommend the male clients for group therapy and to recommend the female clients for marital therapy or medication evaluation. Also, there were significant interactions involving client gender by tape version and …
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Marital Satisfaction and Depression in a Study of Brazilian Women: A Cross-Cultural Test of the Marital Discord Model of Depression
… sectional research has linked depression and marital discord, with women frequently having a higher association between variables. Several longitudinal research studies have linked marital satisfaction to subsequent depression. The Marital Discord Model of Depression states that marital …
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The relationships of marital satisfaction, forgiveness, and religiosity
… examine the relationships between the variable marital adjustment, religiosity, and forgiveness. Data was collected from a sample consisting of 170 married individuals. Participants were obtained by enlisting cooperation of community and religious groups in Southwest Virginia. The term marital …
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Problem -solving communication training and behavioral exchange for the treatment of parent -adolescent conflict
… provided by the documented success of Behavioral Marital Therapy, a treatment package that uses a similar BE + PSCT procedure as that proposed by this study, for reducing distress experienced by couples. As a result, the purpose of this study was to examine if the combination of BE and PSCT …
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Is Marriage Education Effective? A Meta-Analytic Review of Marriage Education Programs
… of the marriage education spectrum (e.g. premarital education only, Carroll & Doherty, 2003), because they focused only on one particular program (e.g, Couples Communication, Butler & Wampler, 1999), because they failed to differentiate marital therapy from marital education programs …
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Projective and introjective identification in a couple therapy case study: a hermeneutical examination
… dialogues with one object relations, couple therapy, case study were performed to research the role of projective and introjective identification within an intersubjective context. The method, Gadatner's (1993) philosophical hermeneutics, involved a dialectical moving back and forth between …
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Die rol van oorskakelingsoorde in die herinskakelingsproses van die gevangene in die gemeenskap
… inter alia, personal counselling, family and marital therapy, reality therapy and social ski1Is training. The transitional haven is regarded as the focus point for the mobilisation of community members and community sources towards addressing the needs of ex-prisoners by facilitating …
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Predictors of General Medical Use Among Individuals Seeking Therapy for Marital and Family Problems
… medical use among people seeking services for marital and family problems. In this study, medical use of participants from the marriage and family therapy services at Brigham Young University Comprehensive Clinic was investigated to determine the best predictors of general medical use. Best …
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Developmental Pedagogy in Marriage and Family Therapy Education
… are opening up for practitioners of family therapy in the medical, organizational, and human relations fields. In this new environment, family therapy educators and supervisors are required to cross the epistemological spaces of scientist-practitioner, postmodernism, and critical theory. …
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