Understanding African American help ‐seeking for romantic relationships: Advocacy, barriers, and considerations
This study seeks to address this gap and better understand unique barriers in the African American couple help-seeking (AACHS) process via a grounded theory-informed qualitative study. Findings from interviews with 11 African American individuals in committed relationships highlighted mistrust as a significant barrier to AACHS, while community supports are frequently sought out. Our findings add to current understandings about AACHS and highlight important areas for future research. In the clinical implications section, the authors outline tangible steps that clinicians can take based on the findings from this study. (Sour...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Aimee Hubbard,
Steven Harris,
Mary Dick,
DasJohn McGee Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Competency Guidelines for Family Collaboration in Behavioral Health Services for Adolescents
This article presents a competency framework for utilizing family collaboration with adolescent cases. It begins by discussing challenges to implementing FT in routine care and presents the core elements strategy, then introduces three “branches” that together constitute a continuum of family involvement—family collaboration, family skills training, and systemic family therapy—and describes the rationale and procedures for focusing on competency guidelines for family collaboration specifically. It then describes the basic techniques and competency guidelines for six core elements of family collaboration: family sys...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Family of Origin Stress, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Resource Loss for Couples During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Analysis
. (Source: Journal of Loss and Trauma)
Source: Journal of Loss and Trauma - February 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Betsy Hughes BarrowAlyssa Banford WittingRoy A. Bean Angela B. BradfordMarriage and Family Therapy, College of Family Home and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USAHughes Barrow is a marriage and family therapy doctoral student in th Source Type: research
‘No one believed us: no one came to help’: caregivers' experiences of violence and abuse involving children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
AbstractChild and adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (CAPVA) refers to abusive and violent behaviours by children towards their parents or primary caregivers. The abuse and harmful behaviours can include a full range of physical, emotional, verbal, financial, and material actions over prolonged periods of time, from childhood to young adulthood. Parents and caregivers of children with neuro-developmental conditions are vulnerable to CAPVA, and little research has been undertaken exploring the experiences of caregivers of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). In Aotearoa New Zealand, 56 caregivers were ...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - February 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anita Gibbs Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Efficacy of Digital Help for Divorced Danes: Randomized Controlled Trial of Cooperation After Divorce (CAD) and Sick Days
AbstractFew digital divorce interventions have undergone rigorous randomized control trial study (RCT) testing of their physical and psychological health effects. This paper describes the Cooperation after Divorce (CAD) intervention including background, target group, design and engagement strategies, intervention development, content, and theoretical cornerstones. The 17-module digital psychoeducational intervention addresses three main content areas: (1) the divorcee themselves, (2) the children, and (3) co-parenting. The content of the modules provided psychoeducation and therapeutic activities focused on the maladapt...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - February 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Validation of a new assessment of hostile attribution bias in romantic relationships: The Hostile Attributions in Romantic Relationships Test
AbstractWhile hostile attributional bias (a tendency to interpret others' behaviors as intentionally hostile) is associated with negative outcomes in romantic relationships, no measure has been developed specifically for this context. Here, we describe the development and validation of a self-report questionnaire across three studies, named Hostile Attribution in Romantic Relationships Test. Study 1 introduces the development and preliminary validation (N = 152). Study 2 tests the validity and test–retest stability of the modified version revised based on findings in Study 1 (N = 151). Study 3 reports the transla...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Danyang Li,
Benjamin Coker,
Angela C. Rowe Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Assessing family relations in borderline personality disorder: A relational approach
AbstractThe aims of the current study are to describe the basic family relationships, parental bonding patterns, and dyadic adjustment of families with offspring diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and to explore the correlations between these variables related to family relations and BPD symptomatology. The sample consisted of 194 participants, including parents from the control (N = 76) and clinical group (N = 76), and patients with BPD (N = 42). All progenitors completed a measure of family relations, parental bonding, and dyadic adjustment. Patients completed a measure of parental bondin...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mariona Roca,
Anna Vilaregut,
Teresa Pretel ‐Luque,
Natàlia Calvo,
Álvaro Frías,
Marc Ferrer Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exploring the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 and Dyadic Associations Between Mental Health and Relational Dynamics in a Sample of Married Male Sexual Minority Couples
This study sought to investigate the factor structure of the IES-2 and to explore the associations between both partner ’s mental health, relational quality, and interpersonal eating interactions within a dyadic sample of 228 married male sexual minority couples (88% white, 8.8% Latino or Hispanic, 5.3% African American or Black, and 5.9% in other racial or ethnic groups). The original four-factor solution did not fit the current sample; instead, a new, fifth factor emerged, which was labeled asEating Not as Coping. Intuitive eating behaviors were dyadically associated with mental and relational health and partners ’ h...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Adolescents in Stepfamilies: An Attachment-Based Approach to Therapy
This article reviews current research on stepfamilies and recommends Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT) as a model from which family therapists may draw as they approach treatment of stepfamilies. With a focus on the attachment between family members, especially between adolescents and their parents, ABFT addresses the underlying damages that occur during the many changes in family dynamics and provides a clear avenue to repairing parent-child attachment. (Source: Contemporary Family Therapy)
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - February 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Co ‐research interview—collaborative way to learn from experience
This article describes our experiences and thoughts on this interview method. We present the interview structure and give suggestions on how to conduct the interview. We also present applications of the interview method and engage in a dialogue among ourselves about our experiences with these interviews. (Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT))
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - February 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eija ‐Liisa Rautiainen,
Aino Maija Rautkallio Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Changes in Family Planning Methods and Sexual Behaviors after T ürkiye’s Earthquake and the Effect of on Quality of Sexual Life
. (Source: American Journal of Family Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Family Therapy - February 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fatma Keskin T öreCansu AğralıGülçin Nacara Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Kahramanmaras, Türkiyeb Faculty of Health Sciences, Midwifery Department, Osmanıye Korkut Source Type: research
Flourishing Love: A secular guide to lasting intimate relationships By
Gnaulati,
Enrico, Biecester;
United Kingdom:
Karnac Books.
2024. pp.
225. $19.95. ISBN: 13: 978 ‐1‐80013‐208‐5
(Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - February 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: McKenna Walsh Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Dynamic Narrative Therapy: A Metamodern Integration of Narrative, and Strategic Family Therapy
This article delineates the application of metamodernism in the field of systemic therapy through the presentation of Dynamic Narrative Therapy, an innovative approach to systemic therapy drawn from the integration of two foundational theoretical models (i.e., strategic family therapy and narrative family therapy). This integration synergizes the strategic concepts of circular causality and feedback loops as well as the narrative use of deconstruction, externalization, and narrative metaphor to illustrate a more comprehensive approach to the therapeutic change. (Source: Contemporary Family Therapy)
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - February 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
