Recently added articles from Family Process:

Mining the Treasures in Qualitative Research

Jun 01, 2008; Imber-Black, Evan ... Fam Proc 47:137-138, 2008 In a first reading, the two articles comprising the Special section "Qualitative Research to Inform Therapeutic Practice" seem to have little in common. The first, Vulvar Pain: A Phenomenological Study of Couples in Search of Effective Diagnosis and Treatment by ...

Vulvar Pain: A Phenomenological Study of Couples in Search of Effective Diagnosis and Treatment

Jun 01, 2008; Connor, Jennifer J; Robinson, Bean; Wieling, Elizabeth ... Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS), a vulvar pain disorder, continues to puzzle medical and mental health professionals due to its unknown etiology and lack of effective treatment. This study used transcendental phenomenology methodology to explore the experiences of couples in which the woman ...

Shared Ancestry, Evolving Stories: Similar and Contrasting Life Experiences Described by Foreign Born and U.S. Born Latino Parents

Jun 01, 2008; Parra-Cardona, José Rubén; Córdova, David Jr; Holtrop, Kendal; Villarruel, Francisco A; Wieling, Elizabeth ... As the Latino population in the United States continues to increase, so does the necessity for in-depth knowledge about their life experiences. This qualitative study sought to privilege the voices of Latino parents by utilizing focus group discussions. Specifically, participants described the ...

Treating Family Relational Trauma: A Recursive Process Using a Decision Dialogue

Jun 01, 2008; Sheinberg, Marcia; True, Fiona ... This article describes a therapeutic process that combines individual and family sessions to maximize therapeutic opportunities to bring forward, understand, validate, and empower children's experience as equal participants in family therapy. The aim is to strengthen relational bonds within the ...

The Multi-level Approach: A Road Map for Couples Therapy

Jun 01, 2008; Scheinkman, Michele ... This paper presents a multi-level framework and road map to guide the therapeutic process. Starting with the couple's reactive pattern, the multi-level approach first orients the therapist on how to create a "holding environment." It then suggests how the therapist, in collaboration with the ...

Acceptance and Expressed Emotion in Mexican American Caregivers of Relatives with Schizophrenia

Jun 01, 2008; Dorian, Marina; García, Jorge I Ramírez; López, Steven R; Hernández, Brenda ... The relation between Expressed Emotion (EE) and caregiver acceptance was tested with the use of video-recorded interactions between 31 Mexican American family caregivers and their relatives with schizophrenia. Borrowing the concept from Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, acceptance was ...

How do I Analyze Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: Considering Empathy in Couple Relationships using Self and Partner Ratings

Jun 01, 2008; Busby, Dean M; Gardner, Brandt C ... In this article we describe some of the benefits and challenges of using self ratings and ratings of the partner to measure empathy and similar terms in couple research. If both members of the dyad are assessed, there will be four measures of the same variable. How to use these 4 measures in ...

Premarital Precursors of Marital Infidelity

Jun 01, 2008; Allen, Elizabeth S; Rhoades, Galena Kline; Stanley, Scott M; Markman, Howard J; Williams, Tamara; Melton, Jessica; Clements, Mari L ... Premarital precursors of infidelity were evaluated in a sample of 72 couples (N = 144) who were taking part in a longitudinal study of marriage. Premarital self-report and observational data were compared for couples who experienced infidelity and those who did not experience infidelity in the ...

The Contribution of Loneliness and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to Marital Adjustment Following War Captivity: A Longitudinal Study

Jun 01, 2008; Solomon, Zahava; Dekel, Rachel ... This prospective study examined the relative contribution of loneliness and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to marital adjustment among Israeli veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Specifically, we examined the mediating role of loneliness as measured in 1991 in the association between PTSD ...