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Articles tagged "couples therapy".
11 articles
Increasing Accessibility to a Brief, Couple-Based Group Intervention for Veterans and their Intimate Partners: A Quality Improvement Project
Introduction Veterans experience relationship difficulties including divorce (Cohan et al., 2005; Mouritsen & Rastogi, 2013) and intimate partner violence (McGinn et al., 2017) at higher rates compared to non-Veterans. Veteran intimate relationships also present risk and protective factors for Veteran mental health service utilization (Logan et al., 2012), morbidity (Bolkan et al., 2013; Martin et […]
Narayan B. Singh, PhD, ABPP + 4 more
May 19, 2025
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Across Types of Therapy: Individual, Couple, and Group
Why is there so much talk about narcissism lately? Is it a trend, baseless hysteria, or even a problem at all? Narcissism itself is a singular personality trait; it can be protective and even beneficial, especially in Western society (Ronningstam, 2005). This may be due to the individualistic virtues and increased achievement-dependent self-esteem rates in […]
Bethany Palmer, MSW, SWLC
December 5, 2024
Balancing Alliances With Couples and Families
Many therapists in training, and even experienced therapists, anticipate working with couples and families with trepidation. As family therapists and researchers, we understand that trepidation, and indeed, sometimes find ourselves experiencing these same feelings! However, we know that understanding systemic interactions really helps in learning to work with couples and families; thus, we offer some […]
Laurie Heatherington, Ph.D. + 2 more
November 12, 2019
Effectiveness of Couple Therapy
Abstract Couple therapy outcomes tend to be judged by randomized controlled trial evidence, which comes primarily from the United States. United Kingdom and European outcome studies have tended to be naturalistic and there is a debate as to whether “laboratory” (RCT) studies are useful benchmarks for the outcomes of “clinic” (naturalistic) studies, not least because […]
David Hewison + 2 more
December 8, 2016
Help-Seeking Among Airmen in Distressed Relationships
Abstract Although a substantial proportion of service members returning from a combat deployment report individual emotional and behavioral disorders as well as intimate relationship difficulties, previous studies indicate that only a minority actually seek mental health services. Little is known about factors that predict help-seeking in this population. We first review key findings from the […]
Douglas K. Snyder + 5 more
March 6, 2016
Psychotherapists Face-to-Face with Dr. Hanna Levenson
Dr. Levenson talks about her transition from personality and social psychology to clinical psychology, her use of video recording in psychotherapy and supervision, her clinical work as couples counselor, advice to new therapists, and how teaching energizes her. http://youtu.be/-dch9PoCeTM Hanna Levenson, Ph.D. Dr. Levenson is an expert in time-limited dynamic, emotionally-focused, relational psychotherapy. She is […]
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP
September 7, 2014
Psychotherapists Face-to-Face with Dr. Lisa Firestone
Dr. Firestone talks about her work in suicide risk assessment, her theory and approach to therapy, experiences of partners in couples counseling, and her views on the future of psychotherapy. About Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. Dr. Firestone is clinical psychologist in California, Director of Research and Education at the The Glendon Association, and contributor to the […]
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP
September 7, 2014
Fostering New Relational Experience
Abstract One of the most critical goals for couple psychotherapy is to foster a new relational experience in the session where the couple feels safe enough to reveal more vulnerable emotions and to explore their defensive withdrawal, aggressive attacking, or blaming. The lived intimate experience in the session offers the couple an opportunity to gain […]
Cheri L. Marmarosh, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP
June 7, 2014
Translating the Abstract Emotions of Everyday Life into a Happy Marriage
This is a relationship road map; a manual for relationships that leads to successful communication, listening skills, and ultimate connection between two people. Illustrating twenty-five crucial turning points, the author raises the reader’s consciousness about critical individual and relationship decisions. Readers learn how to translate the abstract emotions of everyday life into concrete expressions, making […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
July 28, 2010
Couples Therapy in an Abusive Relationship
Question by Faith Prelli I have a client (18yr female) who I have seen twice a week for 8 months who is currently in a relationship plagued with intimate partner violence. This has been dubbed “mutual combat” by several of my co-workers, but in exploration with her, it appears as though the severity of his […]
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP
July 1, 2010
Cultivating Cultural Competence
In today’s rapidly growing multicultural society, psychotherapists are faced with the complex task of working effectively with clientele whose psychosocial dynamics include increasingly diverse cultural values, beliefs and attitudes that the psychotherapist is either not aware of or not prepared to engage as part of the therapy.
Saunia Ahmad, Ph.D. + 1 more
October 25, 2009