In Western culture, the vast majority of people marry or cohabit, and expectations of couple
relationships are high. Marriage is portrayed as providing lifelong companionship, romance …

The terms communication and relationship, although not synonymous, are so entangled that
it is difficult to talk about one concept without presuming the other. Within the academic study …

Prior research has suggested associations between cumulative childhood trauma (CCT),
negative urgency, communication patterns, and psychological intimate partner violence (P …

This study examined initial levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance, as well as their
patterns of change, across eight sessions of couple therapy. Participants were 461 couples …

Objectives: Interpersonal and contextual factors are increasingly acknowledged to play an
important role in understanding intimate partner maltreatment, abuse, and aggression …

Amounting evidence indicates that insufficient knowledge of marital communication skills
leads to destructive interactions and poor marital adjustments in couples, especially during …

Distressed couples seeking therapy often engage in problematic patterns of communication,
including emotional avoidance or rapid escalation of negative emotions. While couple …

Impaired emotion regulation and maladaptive strategies to manage distress are central to
psychopathology, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anorexia nervosa …

Over the past 50 years, psychological science on close relationships has developed a wide
range of theories offering explanations of and insight into close and intimate relationships. In …

Objective The primary purported change process in emotion-focused therapy for couples
(EFT-C) involves partners accessing and revealing their underlying vulnerable emotions …