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What to expect physiologically when you're expecting couples in therapy: A Changing Hearts and Minds in relationshiPS  (CHAMPS) descriptive study
AbstractRecent efforts to improve marital therapy interventions have begun investigating psychophysiologic processes in therapy. These studies are novel and represent initial investigations into relevant phenomena associated with the therapy process. Grounded in Polyvagal Theory, this study introduces an on-going multimethod couple therapy process research (CHAMPS) and highlights the importance of establishing norms among distressed couples in therapy, which can provide context for other studies' results and instigate further investigation of physiology in marital therapy. Using a sample of 24 married, heterosexual couples...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - November 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Angela B. Bradford, Lee N. Johnson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Multifamily therapy in the community mental health network: A pragmatic randomized and controlled study
AbstractMultifamily therapy (MFT) is a psychotherapeutic group intervention for patients with severe mental disorders (SMDs) and their families. The present study is a multicenter, randomized, and controlled trial that analyzes the benefit of MFT during outpatient treatment. The recruited patients were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 26), which received 24 MFT sessions in addition to their treatment as usual (TAU), or to the control group (n = 29), which received only TAU (individual and family sessions). Six months after the inclusion in the MFT, the experimental group showed a significant decreas...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Iria Dom ínguez Vázquez, Laura Nuño Gómez, Neus Freixa Fontanals, Carmen Hidalgo Arjona, Gemma Cervera, Antoni Corominas Díaz, Mercè Balcells‐Oliveró Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

JMFT annual report 2021
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven M. Harris, Erin J. Guyette Tags: JMFT ANNUAL REPORT 2021 Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research

Dulberger, D., & Omer, H. (2021). Non ‐emerging adulthood: Helping parents of adult children with entrenched dependence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 150 pp., $29.99
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tia Crooms Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Gambescia, N., Weeks, G. R., & Hertlein, K. M. (2020). A clinician's guide to systemic sex therapy. 3rd Edition. Routledge. ISBN: 978 ‐0367228064
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily E. Schulz, Christopher K. Belous Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Porges, S. W. (2021). Polyvagal safety: Attachment, communication, and self ‐regulation. WW Norton, Incorporated, 320 pp., $45.00
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Reviewed by Brooke Keilholtz, Brooke Balderson Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Doherty, W. J. (2022). The ethical lives of clients: Transcending self ‐interest in psychotherapy. American Psychological Association, 163 pp., $39.99
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Reviewed by Ryan B. Seedall Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Handbook of Bowen family systems theory and research methods: A systems model for family research. Keller, M. N., & Noone, R. J. (Eds.) (2020). Routledge. 468 pp., $95.96 (paperback)
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marsha J. Vaughn Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Answering the ethical call of the other: A test of the Strong Relationality Model of Relationship Flourishing
AbstractThe philosophical framework of strong relationality has gained greater attention in scholarship and yet empirically testing models built on this important framework are rare. The present study tests predictions made by the Strong Relationality Model of Relationship Flourishing (SRM), which centers on the role of Ethical Responsiveness for relationship health. In doing so, we introduce common fate modeling as a methodological approach for strong relationality research. We used longitudinal data from 1512 couples collected as part of the German longitudinal panel study of families. Results support the Strong Relation...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nathan D. Wood, Stephen T. Fife, Kenneth J. Parnell, D. Bruce Ross Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following family expectations program participation
AbstractThe current study investigated changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following participation in Family Expectations, a relationship and parenting education program for new or expectant parents. The sample comprised 339 couples who participated in most sessions of the Family Expectations program and completed assessments at three different time points over a 12-month period. Study analyses examined: (a) change shortly following completion of the program, (b) associations between short-term change and subsequent change in outcomes at 12-month follow-up, and (c) differences in short-term change betw...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - September 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Allen W. Barton, Qiujie Gong, Scott M. Stanley, Galena K. Rhoades Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

A randomized controlled trial of a 5 ‐year marriage checkup booster session for a subsample of responder couples
This study examined maintenance and booster effects of a brief couple intervention, the Marriage Checkup (MC), across 5  years. A subsample of 63 couples who benefitted from two previous MCs (responder couples), were randomly assigned to a third MC or control. Before randomization (at 4-years-9-months), the responder sample had maintained small to medium effects on two measures of relationship functioning. After ran domization, we found no significant between-group effects. Yet, within-group analyses revealed that while control couples showed flat trajectories in all outcomes after the 4-year-9-months baseline, couples re...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - September 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Astrid B. Leth ‐Nissen, Hanne N. Fentz, Gertraud Stadler, Tea L. Trillingsgaard Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Construction and validation of Rejection Sensitive Expectation, Perception, and Reaction Questionnaire —Partner (RSEPR‐P)
This article details the construction and validation procedures, including item pool generation, factor analysis, and the estimation of reliabil ity and validity. The researchers examined the psychometric properties of RSEPR-P in a community sample of 151 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with the final 24 items suggested four-factor loading with each subscale loading on a separate factor. The subscales had good to excellent internal consistency. In support of the convergent validity, RSEPR-P exhibited robust correlations with rejection sensitivity-personal, mindfulness, marital adjustment, and self-esteem...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - September 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gitanjali Natarajan, Aswathi Prasad Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Which therapist perceptions best predict client outcomes? A naturalistic examination
This study included data of 1334 sessions from 127 clients (86 individual and 41 couple cases) and 15 therapists, collected at a therapy training center. Clients reported their personal functioning and individual symptoms before each session. Therapists rated clients' participation, receptivity, session progress, goal progress, and therapeutic alliance at the end of each therapy session. Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling analyses revealed that therapist-rated client participation and goal progress predicted better personal functioning, beyond clients' previous personal functioning scores. In contrast, none of therapi...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - September 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Qiong Wu, Lenore M. McWey, Thomas Ledermann Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Heart and mind of hypnotherapy: Inviting connection, inventing change Flemons, D. ( 2022). W.W. Norton. ISBN ‐10:039371439X, 266 pp., $35.
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Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martha Laughlin Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research