Communal Coping in Couple Alcohol Treatment

Communal Coping in Couple Alcohol Treatment
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Total Pages: 144
Release: 2005
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Communal coping (CC: Lyons, Mickelson, Sullivan & Coyne, 1998) is an approach to dealing with problems characterized by a sense that the problem and responsibility for solving it are shared. CC has been shown to relate to relationship duration and health outcomes, but its role in couple therapy has not been examined. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether pre-treatment, observer-rated CC would predict or moderate retention and drinking outcome in 2 types of couple therapy for alcoholism. Seventy heterosexual couples in which 1 partner was alcoholic attended up to 20 sessions of conjoint cognitive-behavioral (CBT) or family systems (FST) therapy. Regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between CC and retention in therapy (number of sessions attended and treatment completion), and between CC and abstinence from alcohol at last contact with the study. Due to differential attrition from measurement, analyses of drinking outcome were exploratory. Results indicated that couples low in baseline CC attended fewer sessions of CBT, while CC was not associated with attendance of FST. CC therefore functioned as a moderator of retention in treatment rather than a general predictor of response. Exploratory analyses of drinking outcome did not reveal a relationship between CC and abstinence from alcohol. Moreover, CC did not increase in the course of either therapy, and within-couple changes in CC were not associated with retention. Preliminary evidence for discriminant validity of CC was found: results suggest our measure of CC is distinct from indices of relationship quality. Pending replication, results suggest that baseline CC may moderate the relationship between the type of treatment and treatment retention.

Handbook of Language Analysis in Psychology

Handbook of Language Analysis in Psychology
Author: Morteza Dehghani
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2022-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1462548431

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the use of computerized text analysis methods to address basic psychological questions. This comprehensive handbook brings together leading language analysis scholars to present foundational concepts and methods for investigating human thought, feeling, and behavior using language. Contributors work toward integrating psychological science and theory with natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Ethical issues in working with natural language data sets are discussed in depth. The volume showcases NLP-driven techniques and applications in areas including interpersonal relationships, personality, morality, deception, social biases, political psychology, psychopathology, and public health.

Dyadic Coping: A Collection of Recent Studies

Dyadic Coping: A Collection of Recent Studies
Author: Guy Bodenmann
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2019-09-25
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ISBN: 2889630315

Dyadic coping is a concept that has reached increased attention in psychological science within the last 20 years. Dyadic coping conceptualizes the way couples cope with stress together in sharing appraisals of demands, planning together how to deal with the stressors and engage in supportive or joint dyadic coping. Among the different theories of dyadic coping, the Systemic Transactional Model (STM; Bodenmann, 1995, 1997, 2005) has been applied to many studies on couples’ coping with stress. While a recent meta-analysis shows that dyadiccoping is a robust and consistent predictor of relationship satisfaction and couple’s functioning in community samples, some studies also reveal the significance of dyadic coping in dealing with psychological disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety) or severe illness (e.g., cancer, diabetes, COPD, etc.). Researchers all over the world build their research on this or other concepts of dyadic coping and many typically use the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI) for assessing dyadic coping. So far, research on dyadic coping has been systematically presented in two books, one written by Revenson, Kayser, & Bodenmann in 2005, focussing on emerging perspectives on couples’ coping, the other by Falconier, Randall, & Bodenmann more recently in 2016, addressing intercultural aspects of dyadic coping in African, American, Asian and European couples. This eBook gives an insight into recent dyadic coping research in different areas and countries.

Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
Author: Timothy J. O'Farrell
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462507069

This eminently practical guide presents an empirically supported approach for treating people with substance abuse problems and their spouses or domestic partners. Behavioral couples therapy (BCT) explicitly focuses on both substance use and relationship issues, and is readily compatible with 12-step approaches. In a convenient large-size format, the book provides all the materials needed to introduce BCT; implement a recovery contract to support abstinence; work with clients to increase positive activities, improve communication, and reduce relapse risks; and deal with special treatment challenges. Appendices include a session-by-session treatment manual and 70 reproducible checklists, forms, and client education posters.

Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy

Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy
Author: Alan S. Gurman
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462519717

This book has been replaced by Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Sixth Edition, edited by Jay L. Lebow and Douglas K. Snyder, ISBN 978-1-4625-5012-8.

Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fifth Edition

Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fifth Edition
Author: Alan S. Gurman
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462513921

Regarded as the authoritative reference and text, this handbook presents the most effective, widely studied approaches to couple therapy. The distinguished coeditors bring together other leading experts, most of whom developed the approaches they describe. Adhering closely to a uniform structure to facilitate study and comparison, chapters cover the history, theoretical and empirical underpinnings, and techniques of each model. The volume also describes cutting-edge applications for particular relationship contexts (such as blended families, LGBT couples, and separated couples) and clinical problems (such as partner aggression, psychological disorders, and medical issues). New to This Edition *Chapters on interpersonal neurobiology and intercultural relationships. *Chapters on couple therapy for PTSD, functional analytic couple therapy, and the integrative problem-centered metaframeworks approach. *Many new authors.*Extensively revised with the latest theory and research. See also Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy, edited by Alan S. Gurman, which presents in-depth illustrations of treatment.

Motivational Interviewing with Couples

Motivational Interviewing with Couples
Author: Tyrel J. Starks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2022
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0197549640

"Interpersonal relationships are a central element of human existence. While cultures vary with respect to their individual versus collectivistic orientation (Triandis, 2018), even in the most individualistic of cultures people are to some extent embedded in networks of relationships. Individual experience is situated within a context that involves some combination of family, friends, community, and society. We feel the presence - or for some the absence - of these social forces. That does not mean relationships are uniformly sources of tremendous joy - they can also inspire indifference or become sources of pain. I mean to suggest only that the bonds we form to other people, or the absence of such bonds, are powerful influences on our behavior. To the extent that I am inspired by something in psychology, it is the idea that we move each other around as we move through the world. I am fascinated by the impact interpersonal relationships have on personal behavior. I have been exceedingly lucky in this sense. I arrived at my early career as a clinical psychologist just in time to see something of a "relationship renaissance" in research on HIV prevention and treatment. What vision I had for my career was reshaped by the 2009 publication of Sullivan and colleagues' influential paper indicating that as many as 68% of new HIV infections among sexual minority men (a group that includes gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men) in the United States were transmitted between main or primary relationship partners. Reading it was the first time I recall being really excited about what I could potentially do as a behavioral scientist. This book represents the culmination of just over a decade of work that followed that realization"--

Treating Addiction, Second Edition

Treating Addiction, Second Edition
Author: William R. Miller
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1462540449

"What we wish to offer you, then, is an updated professional resource that combines both clinical and scientific perspectives. We hope this book will be helpful to professionals who are already treating addictive disorders and also to those who are just learning how to treat addictions. We also encourage health professionals more generally to think of addictions as falling within their own normal scope of work, and we have kept this in mind in our writing. In addiction treatment, it makes a difference what you do and how you do it, and it is far easier to develop evidence-based practice from the outset than to change already established habits."--Page x.

Overcoming Alcohol Problems

Overcoming Alcohol Problems
Author: Barbara S. McCrady
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2010-04-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 019983783X

This therapist guide outlines a treatment program for couples wherein one partner has an alcohol use disorder. Based on the principles of CBT, this 12-session couples-focused program is designed not only to help the drinking partner stop drinking, but also to help his or her partner change behaviors that may contribute to the drinker's problem. Another aim of treatment is to enhance the couple's relationship. TreatmentsThatWorkTM represents the gold standard of behavioral healthcare interventions! · All programs have been rigorously tested in clinical trials and are backed by years of research · A prestigious scientific advisory board, led by series Editor-In-Chief David H. Barlow, reviews and evaluates each intervention to ensure that it meets the highest standard of evidence so you can be confident that you are using the most effective treatment available to date · Our books are reliable and effective and make it easy for you to provide your clients with the best care available · Our corresponding workbooks contain psychoeducational information, forms and worksheets, and homework assignments to keep clients engaged and motivated · A companion website (www.oup.com/us/ttw) offers downloadable clinical tools and helpful resources · Continuing Education (CE) Credits are now available on select titles in collaboration with PsychoEducational Resources, Inc. (PER)