This article evaluates the efficacy, effectiveness, and clinical significance of empirically
supported couple and family interventions for treating marital distress and individual adult …

Cognitive‐behavioral couple therapy (CBCT) is an approach to assisting couples that has
strong empirical support for alleviating relationship distress. This paper provides a review of …

Although the measurement of drinking is necessary for assessing and evaluating the
treatment of alcohol problems, this key dependent variable has not always been reported in …

Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more
heavily influenced by issues related to well-being—people's evaluations and feelings about …

What Predicts Divorce? Page 1 Page 2 WHAT PREDICTS DIVORCE? The Relationship
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The Marriage Clinic presents a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman's
much heralded research on marital success and failure. Here one will find not only a wide …

Research is presented on the prospective longitudinal prediction of marital dissolution. First,
a cascade toward marital dissolution is described. Second, the cascade is predicted with …

Behavioral couples therapy (BCT) sees the substance-abusing patient with the spouse to
arrange a daily “sobriety contract” in which the patient states his or her intent not to drink or …

Alcohol and drug problems affect not only those using these substances but also family
members of the substance user. In this review evidence of the negative impacts substance …

A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply
knowledge about behavior change in general--and the stages-of-change model in particular …