Computer-Mediated Communication in Intimate Relationships: Associations of...
Technology has enabled new forms of communication that has transformed the way that we connect with those closest to us. Individuals are now using mobile devices on a daily basis to share and...
View ArticleFrom Private Practice to Academia: Integrating Social and Political Advocacy...
Marriage and family therapists (MFTs)1 have been fighting for their right to exist since the field's inception. As the field of marriage and family therapy (MFT) matured, political advocacy became...
View ArticleThe Systemic Interaction of Attachment on Psychophysiological Arousal in...
Attachment theorists emphasize the innate human need to establish nonreplaceable, long-term relationships with others (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978; Bowlby, 1982). Attachment styles have...
View ArticleHelping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled...
Doherty, W. J., & Harris, S. M. (2017). Helping couples on the brink of divorce: Discernment counseling for troubled relationships. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 229 pp....
View Article"Being a Therapist Doesn't Exclude You from Real Life": Family Therapists'...
Increased attention to social justice challenges family therapists to confront systemic inequalities that affect clients' well-being (D'Arrigo-Patrick, Hoff, Knudson-Martin, & Tuttle, 2016;...
View ArticleFamily Therapy in Global Humanitarian Contexts: Voices and Issues from the Field
Charles, L. L., & Samarasinghe, G. (Eds.) (2016). Family therapy in global humanitarian contexts: Voices and issues from the field. New York, NY: Springer, 138 pp., $54.99.International family...
View ArticlePerceptions and Experiences of Marriage Preparation among U.S. Muslims:...
In the United States, approximately half of all first marriages will end in divorce (Goodwin, Mosher, & Chandra, 2010; Krieder & Ellis, 2011), and each year there are about 850,000 divorces...
View ArticleTreatment for Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior: A Review of Family-Based...
When the intersection of family and suicide is discussed, much of the literature has focused on the experience of suicide bereavement, which refers to the grief following a loved one's death by...
View ArticleEditorial
I would like to publicly thank Dr. Fred Piercy for his service to the Journal, certainly over the last 6 years, but even before that he had been a valued editorial board member as well as a regular...
View ArticleMoving between Dialogic Reflexive Processes in Systemic Family Therapy...
"I must find myself in another by finding another in myself (in mutual reflection and mutual acceptance)"Bakhtin (1984, p. 287)Our aim in this article is to explore the notion of reflexivity from the...
View ArticleReligious Coping and Glycemic Control in Couples with Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus (DM), a metabolic disease in which the body is unable to produce enough insulin (type 1), or use its own insulin effectively (type 2), is one of the fastest growing chronic illnesses...
View ArticleMale-Partnered Bisexual Women's Perceptions of Disclosing Sexual Orientation...
Individuals who identify as bisexual are less likely to disclose or discuss their sexual orientation in general, as compared to lesbian/gay- and heterosexual-identified persons (Sabat, Trump, &...
View ArticleGroup Couples' Intervention to Improve Sexual Health among Married Women in a...
INTRODUCTIONThe nature and form of marriage is rapidly changing in Asia (The Economist, 2011), as an increasing number of middle- and upper-class women are delaying marriage, choosing to stay single or...
View ArticlePublic Participation: Moving beyond the Four Walls of Therapy
The claim that a family therapist's work should go beyond the four walls of therapy can be met with resistance. Some clinicians feel their expertise should be limited to therapeutic practice (Beitin...
View ArticleThe Effects of Briefly Interrupting Marital Conflict
The goal of this article was to begin creating a library of effective proximal change interventions that can interrupt marital conflict and can affect positivity and negativity in couples' conflict...
View ArticlePsychodynamic Couple Therapy: A Practical Synthesis
This article reviews the most significant contributions of psychodynamic thought to the field of couple therapy. I will discuss five central psychoanalytic domains that can be targeted...
View ArticleFamily Focused Care for Refugees and Displaced Populations: Global...
Much is being written, publicized and politicized about the refugee crisis that is currently affecting the world. Several aspects of the crisis, including the large number of refugees and their...
View ArticleThe Genogram Casebook: A Clinical Companion to Genograms: Assessment and...
McGoldrick, M. (2016). The genogram casebook: A clinical companion to genograms: Assessment and intervention. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 304 pp., $32.00.In The Genogram Casebook, Monica...
View ArticleTransnational Intersectionality in Family Therapy with Resettled Refugees
We are currently facing the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War (UNHCR, 2015) with over 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes due to war and other atrocities. This...
View ArticleLove Me True: Overcoming the Surprising Ways We Deceive in Relationships
Whiting, J. B. (2016). Love me true: Overcoming the surprising ways we deceive in relationships. Springville, UT: Plain Sight Publishing, 164 pp., $14.99.Why do people deceive, and what is the purpose...
View ArticleA Journey to Hope: Healing the Traumatized Spirit
Langston, M. W., & Langston, K. J. (2016). A journey to hope: Healing the traumatized spirit. Silverton, OR: Lampion Press, 224 pp. $15.95.Given my extensive work with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...
View ArticleArmy Soldiers and Suicidal Thoughts: The Impact of Negative Relationship...
Suicide rates in the United States' active-duty Military and post-service have risen steadily in the past two decades. In 2016, 275 active duty service members and 203 reserve component service members...
View ArticleShort-Term-Effectiveness of a Relationship Education Program for Distressed...
A functioning relationship is one of the most important resources for mental and physical health (e.g., Robles, Slatcher, Trombell, & McGinn, 2014). A number of effective relationship education...
View ArticleThe Search for Domestic Bliss: Marriage and Family Counseling in 20th-Century...
Dowbiggin, I. (2014). The search for domestic bliss: Marriage and family counseling in 20th-Century America. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 262 pp., $34.95.Ian Dowbiggin is a professor of...
View ArticleFeasibility of Implementation of a Parenting Intervention with Karen Refugees...
We are living in one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled conflict and violence to seek refuge in countries such as the United States (Bureau of...
View ArticleEfficacy of a Web-Based Intervention for Concerned Spouses of Service Members...
Alcohol misuse is a problem in the military and is associated with numerous problems including fitness for duty, absenteeism, depression, anxiety (LeardMann et al., 2013; Mattiko, Olmsted, Brown, &...
View ArticleThe Development and Implementation of a Multi-Couple Therapy Model with...
"Madame, it's the couples. So many couples have divorced since the war, and the ones who are still together are suffering in their relationships. We need to work with couples, to help them heal their...
View ArticleHope, Coping, and Relationship Quality in Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome
Families with a member who has special needs may encounter numerous challenges, including, but not limited to, developmental, medical, educational, social, and financial issues. Some strains described...
View ArticleA Phenomenological Study of Family Experiences of Resettled Iraqi Refugees
An increase in armed conflicts, ethnic tensions, and threats of persecution in recent years has displaced nearly 65 million people from their homelands (UNHCR, 2016). The United States accepts a...
View ArticleDo the Constructs of the Faces IV Change Based on Definitions of "Family?" a...
The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale IV (FACES; Olson, 2010) is a widely used measure of family functioning based on the Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems (Olson, 2000). FACES and...
View ArticleCommitment, Forgiveness, and Relationship Self-Regulation: An Actor Partner...
In Western cultures, it is commonly accepted that maintaining strong romantic relationships requires work. Relationship self-regulation (RSR) is one way to characterize this work, and several studies...
View ArticleFamily Interventions for Populations Exposed to Traumatic Stress Related to...
The adverse psychological and relational impact of mass traumas resulting from war and organized violence around the world is ubiquitous with tremendous implications for prevention and intervention...
View ArticleAlcohol Use among Concerned Partners of Heavy Drinking Service Members and...
Heavy drinking adversely affects multiple areas of life for both the heavy drinker and his or her romantic partner. It is well established that spouses and partners of heavy drinkers experience higher...
View ArticleDiscursive Research Methodologies and Couple and Family Therapy Research:...
This special section brings into focus a wide range of different discursive research methodologies focused on the same text-a consultation session conducted by the extraordinary family therapist Tom...
View ArticleIssuing and Responding to Unusual Questions: A Conversation Analytic Account...
INTRODUCTIONTom Andersen is a Norwegian psychiatrist who developed an approach to therapy known as The Reflecting Team (Andersen, 1987). He is one of a number of postmodern, constructionist therapists...
View ArticleDiscursive Research and Clinical Realities, or the Eye of the Beholder
The relevance of research for family therapy is undisputed. The problem is: undisputed for whom? Researchers, of course, consider it necessary. As far as clinicians are concerned, though, research is...
View ArticleFamily Subsystems Predicting Adolescents' Perceptions of Sibling Relationship...
Sibling relationships serve as a child's first social laboratory, offering endless opportunities for social interaction that shape cognitive, social, and affective development (Dunn, 2014; Dunn &...
View ArticleConstructing Unfinalizability: A Subject Positioning Analysis of a Couple's...
I find the notion of subject positions helpful in thinking through the interactions in a therapeutic encounter. It is a concept that challenges the individualistic idea that we are encased in our...
View ArticleA Couple in Love Entangled in Enigmatic Episodes: A Semantic Analysis
NEGOTIATING AND CONSTRUING MEANINGS WITHIN COUPLESFrom the end of the 1970s, first cautiously, then more and more decisively, the world of subjectivity entered family therapy. Emotions, belief systems,...
View ArticleDyadic Supervision Evaluation: An Actor–partner Relational Model
Researchers in marital and family therapy (MFT) are faced with the challenge of providing empirical methodologies that mirror and inform clinical work. A considerable amount of the current research in...
View ArticleApplying the Paradigm of Relational Ethics into Contextual Therapy. Analyzing...
Within couple and family therapy, a variety of models and methods exist, basically distinguished by different assumptions and theories. This pillarization emerged as an extension of the development of...
View ArticleA Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral...
Rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) remain high across the globe, contributing to the burden of injury and disease worldwide (for a review, see Esquivel-Santoveña, Lambert, & Hamel, 2013)....
View ArticleThe Role of Parental Posttraumatic Stress, Marital Adjustment, and Dyadic...
Participation in war and particularly war captivity have consistently been shown to give rise to high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other comorbid disorders (King et al., 2011;...
View ArticleThe Case for Insurance Reimbursement of Couple Therapy
Regardless of culture, country, or religion, the majority of individuals either marry, or enter into marriage-like cohabiting relationships (Weston, Qu, & Hayes, 2012). Throughout the world, over...
View ArticleEverybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about...
Stephens-Davidowitz, S. (2017). Everybody lies: Big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 352 pp., $27.99.Awareness of what influences...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Tom Andersen: The Ethics of Reflecting Processes
TOM ANDERSEN AND HIS COLLABORATIVE APPROACH: THE ETHICS OF THE REFLECTING PROCESSESTom Andersen and his pioneering work with reflecting conservations has had a lasting influence on the field of family...
View ArticleThe Dynamics of Infidelity: Applying Relationship Science to Psychotherapy...
Josephs, L. (2017). The dynamics of infidelity: Applying relationship science to psychotherapy practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 384 pp., $47.88.A graduate course devoted to...
View ArticleDiscursive Methodologies for Couple and Family Therapy Research: Editorial to...
In this article, we aim to introduce the special JMFTsection on discursive research methodologies for couple and family therapy research. These are qualitative research methodologies which resonate...
View ArticleToward Valuing Research: Reflections Inspired by Special Section Contributors
These reflections are an expression of my inner conversation while reading the articles in this special section. My thoughts swirled around research, dialogue, and interpretation, and of course, Tom...
View ArticleDiscursive Psychology as a Method of Analysis for the Study of Couple and...
In this article, we present discursive psychology (henceforth DP), a qualitative approach that examines what people accomplish through social interaction (Edwards & Potter, 1992). DP is one of many...
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