Recoupling in Mid ‐Life and Beyond: From Love at Last to Not So Fast
This article describes the “normal” challenges facing stepcouples who come together over age 50. It provides evidence‐informed guidance for therapists in meeting these challenges on three levels of clinical work: Psychoeducational, Interpersonal, and Intrapsychic/Intergenerational. As in younger stepfamilies, “family therapy” must usually begin in subsystems—often the adult stepcouple and parent–adult child. The article then describes a particularly fraught subgroup of recouplers: over‐50 fathers and their new partners, where the dad's young adult or adult daughter is very unhappy with his new relationship....
Source: Family Process - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Patricia L. Papernow Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Effectiveness of the ‘Hold me Tight’ Relationship Enhancement Program in a Self‐referred and a Clinician‐referred Sample: An Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy‐Based Approach
This study is the first to examine the effectiveness of HmT. Using a three‐wave (waiting period, treatment, and follow‐up) within‐subject design, HmT was delivered to 79 self‐referred couples and 50 clinician‐referred couples. We applied a comprehensive outcome measure battery. Our main findings were that (1) self‐referred couples significantly improved during HmT on all measures, that is relationship satisfaction, security of partner‐bond, forgiveness, daily coordination, maintenance behavior, and psychological complaints, with a moderate‐to‐large mean effect size (d = .63), which was maintained (d =...
Source: Family Process - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Henk Jan Conradi, Pieter Dingemanse, Arjen Noordhof, Catrin Finkenauer, Jan H. Kamphuis Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Editorial: Emerging Principles of Practice in Couple and Family therapy
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Source: Family Process - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jay L. Lebow Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Family Process - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
The Experience of Prisoners ’ Parents: A Meta‐Synthesis of Qualitative Studies
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Source: Family Process - August 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Keren Gueta Source Type: research
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Source: Family Process - August 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Deciding to Come Out to Parents: Toward a Model of Sexual Orientation Disclosure Decisions
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Source: Family Process - August 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Erika L. Grafsky Source Type: research
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Source: Family Process - August 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Family Profiles of Cohesion and Parenting Practices and Latino Youth Adjustment
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Source: Family Process - August 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mayra Y. B ámaca‐Colbert
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Melinda Gonzales‐Backen
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Carolyn S. Henry
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Peter S.Y. Kim
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Martha Zapata Roblyer
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Scott W. Plunkett
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Tovah Sands Source Type: research
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Family Process, Ahead of Print. (Source: Family Process)
Source: Family Process - August 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Couple Therapy with Veterans: Early Improvements and Predictors of Early Dropout
Family Process,Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 525-538, June 2018. (Source: Family Process)
Source: Family Process - July 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Melanie S. Fischer
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Vickie Bhatia
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Jenna L. Baddeley
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Rawya Al ‐Jabari
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Julian Libet Source Type: research
Couple Therapy with Veterans: Early Improvements and Predictors of Early Dropout
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Source: Family Process - July 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
