Current status and future directions in couple therapy

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2006, Pages 317-344

  Snyder, Douglas K ^a   Castellani, Angela M ^a   Whisman, Mark A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Couple change processes; Couple research; Couple therapy; Couple treatment predictors; Marital therapy

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; FORECASTING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MARITAL THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOOD DISORDER; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COUPLES THERAPY; FORECASTING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOOD DISORDERS; PAIN;

EID: 32544434980     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070154     Document Type: Article

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