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Fitzpatrick, Mary Anne; And Others – Family Relations, 1982
Outlines conceptual distinction among avoidance, cooperation, and competitive conflict resolution strategies used by marital partners. Couples (N=43) were audiotaped as they discussed previous disagreements. Found the temporal aspects of speech, including turn-taking and interruptions, need to be considered in the study of couples' conflict…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Competition, Conflict Resolution
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Luther, Grace; Loev, Irv – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Offers a conceptual approach to resistance in marital therapy. Aimed at beginning marital clinicians, provides an understanding of the natural existence of resistance to therapeutic change. Presents a model which can aid the clinician in assessing each individual's willingness to improve throughout therapy. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
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Elbaum, Phillip L. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Presents the dynamics, implications and treatment of extramarital sex. Discusses historical and cultural perspectives, various types of infidelity experiences, marital styles as they relate to infidelity, and family therapy implications. Offers recommendations for treatment and a brief consideration of extramarital relationships as a healthy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Family Counseling
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Hutchison, Katherine R.; And Others – Journal of Divorce, 1980
Presents a discussion of issues which may be unique in therapy with divorcing clergy, focusing on the overlap between the minister's marital and occupational roles, and the extent to which such overlap influences the divorce and adjustment process. Special concerns of the divorced clergy are described. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Church Role, Clergy, Divorce
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Haley, Jay – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1980
Presents techniques for concealing ignorance from clients and colleagues and making correct excuses for failure to them. Provides information for the therapist who is ignorant about how to change a marriage relationship and wishes to sound knowledgeable and appear to know what s/he is doing. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
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Ahrons, Constance R. – Social Work, 1980
Presents a conceptual framework for the family's reorganization after a divorce, viewed as a crisis of family transition. Social workers must be prepared to help a couple with the complex process of terminating spousal roles but continuing and redefining parental roles, which is central to family redefinition. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Divorce, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Problems
McKeon, Margie A.; And Others – Southern College Personnel Association Journal, 1980
Reports on the development of a satellite center for marriage and family development in married housing. The background and development of the center are discussed. Models employed include the single parent group, the couples' growth group, divorce adjustment groups for children, premarital counseling, and parenting sessions. (RC)
Descriptors: College Housing, College Students, Counseling Techniques, Divorce
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Williams, Arthur R.; And Others – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Delineates and examines the psychodynamics of the paranoid wife syndrome and its concomitant characteristic intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamic phenomena. Diagnostic indications and treatment modalities and strategies are noted. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Depression (Psychology), Evaluation Methods, Failure
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Worthington, Everett L., Jr. – Counseling and Values, 1990
Describes approach to marriage counseling based on cognitive behavioral therapy and structural and strategic marital therapies aimed at Christian couples. Uses shared Christian values between counselor and clients to promote increased marital commitment, marital satisfaction, and personal spiritual growth. Maintains marital satisfaction might be…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Christianity, Cognitive Restructuring, Conflict Resolution
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Waring, Edward M.; And Others – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1995
Seventeen depressed, married women were assigned to marital therapy or a waiting list control group. Couples received 10 sessions of Enhancing Marital Intimacy Therapy (EMIT), a structured technique involving the self-disclosure of personal constructs. Comparisons revealed a significant reduction in the experimental group's depressive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Depression (Psychology)
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Keystone, Marianne; Carolan, Marsha T. – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 1998
The tenets of traditional sex therapy based on dysfunction and pathology are critiqued, and a feminist model proposed. Recognizing that equity and power issues, particularly in heterosexual relationships, are basic issues, women and issues of gender are at the center of the model. Three cases illustrate the model. (Author/EMK)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories
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Bailey, C. Everett; Pryce, Julia; Walsh, Froma – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2002
In this article, we present an analysis and comparison of published articles in the "Journal of Marital and Family Therapy" (JMFT) between 1990-1995 and 1996-2000. This study focused on trends in author gender, highest degree, and professional affiliation, and article content on issues of cultural and family diversity (race/ethnicity, class,…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Cultural Pluralism, Family Counseling, Therapy
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Hawley, Dale R.; Gonzalez, Chris – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2005
Journal articles published by faculty in Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) programs from 1998 to 2002 were analyzed to determine patterns regarding the amount and type of research conducted by this group. Fifty-eight percent of the articles were identified as research. Slightly more than 10% of these…
Descriptors: Marriage Counseling, Journal Articles, Family Counseling, Therapy
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Doxsee, Harry – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
Marriage mentorship is one of the most effective methods through which a couple can enrich their marriage. A good mentorship relationship is based on feelings of warmth and affinity between mentors and mentees. When a relationship of trust is established, the mentees feel more freedom to express their deeper feelings and to explore new paths of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Communication Skills, Marriage Counseling, Marital Satisfaction
Levengood, Jan; And Others – 1995
The effects of divorce on children have been greatly disputed among therapists. Since the perceived harmfulness of divorce may affect how marital counseling is done, this study examined how therapists' beliefs about divorce consequences are related to their intervention preferences. A two-part questionnaire was devised to be administered to…
Descriptors: Children, Counseling, Counselor Attitudes, Counselors
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