Adapting enactments to couple reactivity: Five developmental stages

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 311-327

  Butler, Mark H ^a   Gardner, Brandt C ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0345491944     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2003.tb01209.x     Document Type: Review

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