Tag: couples therapy
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A Vote for Marriage Counseling
Read more: A Vote for Marriage CounselingFrom WebMD: Is Your Marriage Toxic? Give it time. Don’t expect the walls of resentment to come down right away. Rivkin suggests allowing at least three months to see if working with a therapist or using the advice from a relationship book is helping your marriage. Change may come slowly. But don’t be afraid of…
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Relationship Rules
Read more: Relationship RulesRevisiting the conventional wisdom about getting along. [A]lthough a lot of modern relationship advice boils down to keeping positive, this isn’t always the best way to go. When things are dreamy, being positive is probably good advice. But this research suggests that rocky relationships can benefit from negative processes.
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Online Marriage Checkup
Read more: Online Marriage CheckupStudies have couples checking in annually about their marriages, online. “You don’t wait to see the dentist until something hurts — you go for checkups on a regular basis…If people were to bring their marriages in for a checkup on an annual basis, would that provide the same sort of benefit that a physical health…
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Why Couples Fight
Read more: Why Couples FightYou probably have a pretty good idea why you fight as a couple. But here’s a study to tell you all about it. [The study] identified the first type of underlying concern as perceived threat, which involves a perception that one’s partner is being hostile, critical, blaming or controlling. The second type of concern is…
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Couples Therapy v. Alcoholism
Read more: Couples Therapy v. AlcoholismA study shows couples therapy edging out individual therapy for women working to recover from alcoholism: A new research effort assessed the benefit of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for alcohol-dependent women. The innovative research design also investigated if CBT was more effective if delivered as couples therapy rather than individual therapy [and found] that both treatment…