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Emotionally focused couple therapy for dummies
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) helps you find more effective ways to connect with your partner at a profound emotional level by teaching you powerful ways to transform negative patterns and to build a stronger bond.
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Unmarriages
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. Social norms militated against the marriage of master to slave or between individuals of very different classes, or when the couple was so poor that they could not establish an independent household. Such unions, where the protections that medieval law furnished to wives (and their children) were absent, were fraught with danger for women in particular, but they also provided a degree of flexibility and demonstrate the adaptability of social customs in the face of slowly changing religious doctrine.Unmarriagesdraws on a wide range of sources from across Europe and the entire medieval millennium in order to investigate structures and relations that medieval authors and record keepers did not address directly, either in order to minimize them or because they were so common as not to be worth mentioning. Author Ruth Mazo Karras pays particular attention to the ways women and men experienced forms of opposite-sex union differently and to the implications for power relations between the genders. She treats legal and theological discussions that applied to all of Europe and presents a vivid series of case studies of how unions operated in specific circumstances to illustrate concretely what we can conclude, how far we can speculate, and what we can never know.
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Simultaneous Developability of Partner Ruled Surfaces according to Darboux Frame in E3
In this paper, we introduce original definitions of Partner ruled surfaces according to the Darboux frame of a curve lying on an arbitrary regular surface in E3. It concerns Tg Partner ruled surfaces, Tn Partner ruled surfaces, and gn Partner ruled surfaces. We aim to study the simultaneous developability conditions of each couple of two Partner ruled surfaces. Finally, we give an illustrative example for our study.
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A life-cycle approach to treating couples
Every couple can be located on a developmental time line, from first dates to final good-byes, and compared to the millions of other couples who have faced similar developmental challenges. Clinical knowledge about life-cycle stages serves as a reference point for the couple therapist, much as diagnoses do for the individual therapist. Based on 30 years of couple therapy experience, Dr. Fishel, a Harvard Medical School professor, offers a practical guide for therapists at any stage of their own professional development. The author includes case examples and research findings about clients diverse not only in sexual orientation, but also age, race, ethnicity, class, and health. The book focuses on the six major life-cycle changes that couples typically traverse, from dating to death. Stage one is about dating, partner selection, and the decision to make a long-term commitment. Stage two focuses on the couple's transformation during the transition to parenthood. Stage three is about midlife couples when there are increased work and parenting demands as well as care-giving of aging parents. Stage four is about late midlife couples who may be launching children, heading for retirement, and becoming grandparents. Stage five focuses on late-life couples, facing issues of aging, mutual dependency, and generational role changes. Stage six is about death as an endpoint to marriage, with a focus on illness, legacy, and saying good-bye. For each stage, the author shares scientific research, common presentations and rich case examples, followed by developmentally-informed questions and topics for couple therapists to pursue.
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Translation and Adaptation of Tolerance for Disagreement Scale among Pakistani Married Couples
This study aims to translate, validate and to establish the psychometric properties for the Tolerance for Disagreement Scale, originally developed by Teven, McCroskey, and Richmond (1998) in Urdu language to be used in Pakistan. The scale is a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of 15 items (7 positive & 8 negative items). The process of scale translation was carried out by following the translation and adaptation guidelines of Brislin (1980). The items were translated in accordance with the local Pakistani cultural values. Initially, the reliability of the translated instrument was tested on a sample of N = 30 married couples (husbands n = 30 & wives n = 30). The translated version showed good reliability (? = .90) which indicated that it was a suitable scale to be used with Pakistani married people. Furthermore, Confirmatory Factor Analysis was performed on a sample of N = 400 people (husbands n = 200 & wives n = 200), in order to validate its factor structure. The Confirmatory factor Analysis indicated that the translated scale was a valid measure to be used in Pakistan. Hence, this study succeeded in the translation and adaptation of the scale for Pakistani population which can be used in research and clinical settings.
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Intrusive Partners Elusive Mates
When two people form a relationship or marry, they begin to move towards one another with the expectation of closeness. The emotionality or intensity that accompanies this process, however, may result in fusion followed by a desperate need for space or distance. Intrusive Partners - Elusive Mates is the first book to deal exclusively with the pursuer-distancer interaction, and to focus significant attention on the emerging male pursuer-female distancer dynamic. This book revisits Fogarty's work, traces the concept over time and across different professional fields, and discusses in detail the concepts correlation with gender issues and social change. A detailed, step-by-step model of treatment to aid in de-escalating this potentially problematic style is also offered. The model in and of itself is unique because it integrates psychoanalytic conflict theory and psychodynamic systems theory into one treatment approach. This book is intended to offer the therapist a model for understanding and effectively discussing this dynamic, while at the same time allowing couples to read and explore it on their own.
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Integrating Music into Couple Therapy Theory and Practice
Over the past three decades, the theory and practice of couple therapy has moved towards integrative approaches. Typically, two or more couple therapy theories and their associated practices are blended into a more comprehensive, flexible approach to conceptualizing and intervening with couples’ problems. Emerging findings from social and affective neuroscience are also increasingly incorporated. This article argues for broadening integrative efforts to include the perspectives and products of the arts and humanities into couple therapy, with a focus on music. The article presents the rationale for this broadened scope of integration by discussing E. O. Wilson’s consilience theory and its bearing on the distinctions and convergence among the science, craft, and art of therapy. The research on the neuroscience of music and the role of music in affective experience, expression, and intimate relationships strongly supports use of music in transformative work with couples. Music theory and arts provide a useful framework for creating novel theories about couple relationships, for observing and understanding distressed couples’ problematic patterns, and for formulating interventions. Sensitivity to the musical aspects of therapists’ communicative behavior can increase the impact of interventions. The article provides a practical framework for utilizing music in couple therapy, and includes several illustrative case examples.
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Relationships between management of money, dyadic adjustment and marital conflict
The exercise of conjugality is complex and requires an emotional and financial investment from the spouses. This article is the result of an empirical study with a quantitative design. The relationships between the meanings of money, money management, dyadic adjustment and marital conflict were investigated in a Brazilian sample of 246 married individuals. The positive meaning given to money was positively related to shared money management system, greater dyadic adjustment and lower indices of conflict between the couples. Couples that used the shared money management system presented greater dyadic adjustment and lower indices of conflict. On the other hand, the levels dyadic adjustment and conflict between the couples were similar between total management of expenditures system and independent money management system. The shared money management system may be classified as a positive way for couples managing their finances.
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The Character of Couples and Couple Stresses in Continuum Mechanics
In this paper, the concepts of moments and couples in mechanics are examined from a fundamental perspective. Representing a couple by its moment vector is very useful in rigid body mechanics, where the states of internal stresses and deformation are not studied. This is because only the moment of couples appears in the governing equation of moment equilibrium. On the other hand, when considering the state of internal stresses and deformation in continuum mechanics, not only the moment of couples but also the line of action of their constituent parallel opposite forces must be specified. In defining a well-posed problem for a continuum, including the governing equations of moment equilibrium or motion, boundary conditions, and constitutive relations, only the moment of couples (e.g., body couples, couple tractions, couple stresses) appear without specifying the line of action of the constituent parallel forces. Nevertheless, the physical state of stress and deformation in the continuum must be unique and determinate. Therefore, this physical requirement imposes some restrictions on the form of body couples, couple tractions, and couple stresses. Here, the uniqueness of interactions in the continuum is used to establish that the continuum does not support a distribution of body couples or a distribution of surface twisting couple tractions with normal moments. Furthermore, the mechanism of action of the couple traction as a double layer of shear force tractions is established, along with the skew-symmetric character of the couple stress moment tensor.
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Sexual Minority Stress and Same-Sex Relationship Well-being: A Meta-analysis of Research Prior to the U.S. Nationwide Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage
Meta-analytic methods were used to analyze 179 effect sizes retrieved from 32 research reports on the implications that sexual minority stress may have for same-sex relationship well-being. Sexual minority stress (aggregated across different types of stress) is moderately and negatively associated with same-sex relationship well-being (aggregated across different dimensions of relationship well-being). Internalized homophobia is significantly and negatively associated with same-sex relationship well-being, whereas heterosexist discrimination and sexual orientation visibility management are not. Moreover, the effect size for internalized homophobia is significantly larger than those for heterosexist discrimination and sexual orientation visibility management. Sexual minority stress is significantly and negatively associated with same-sex relationship quality but not associated with closeness or stability. Sexual minority stress is significantly and negatively associated with relationship well-being among same-sex female couples but not among same-sex male couples. The current status of research approaches in this field is also summarized and discussed.
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