Objective: Within the United States, one third of married couples are distressed and almost
half of first marriages (and more than half of unmarried cohabiting relationships) end in …

Being in a romantic relationship is characterized by a high degree of intimacy and affective
involvement. Affective behavior indicates the emotional content in couple interactions and …

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) attempts to improve Traditional Behavioral
Couple Therapy (TBCT) by incorporating an emphasis on promoting acceptance into TBCTs …

Several approaches to couple therapy produce large and clinically significant reductions in
relationship distress. However, 25 to 30 per cent of couples show no benefit from couple …

In a New Yorker book review, Rebecca Mead (2003) cited John Milton's Doctrine and
Discipline of Divorce (1643), in which he instructs Parliament that" In God's intention, a meet …

IntroductionFamily as a dynamic system embraces a number of subsystems, the most
important of which is spouse subsystem. Couple's ability in marital self-regulation is a …

In this chapter, we discuss cognitive behavioral couple therapy (CBCT), an empirically
supported, time-limited intervention for the treatment of relationship distress. We provide an …

This study used systemic perspectives and actor and partner interdependence model to
examine actor and partner effects of depression on couples' relationship satisfaction in sixty …

Abstract Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT; Jacobson & Christensen, 1998) is an
evidence-based couple therapy that facilitates the development of emotional acceptance to …

Partners' ability to cope together in the face of stress—commonly known as dyadic coping
(DC)—can promote individual and couple well‐being. However, little is known about the …