Integrative Approaches to Couple Therapy: Implications for Clinical Practice and Research

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-24

  Snyder, Douglas K ^a   Balderrama Durbin, Christina ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common factors; Couple therapy; Integrative therapy; Marital therapy; Pluralism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO MARRIAGE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; FAMILY CONFLICT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIORAL COUPLE THERAPY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MARITAL THERAPY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOTHERAPIST ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COUPLES THERAPY; HUMANS; RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856493182     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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