Two central roles for couple relationships: Breaking negative intergenerational patterns and enhancing children's adaptation

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-288

  Cowan, Carolyn Pape ^a   Cowan, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's adaptation; Intergenerational patterns; Intervention; Marital quality

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFLICT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIVORCE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY LIFE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTIMACY; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL LEARNING;

EID: 24644444713     PISSN: 14681994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681990500140859     Document Type: Article

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