Couple-based interventions for psychopathology: A renewed direction for the field

Family Process

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 445-461

  Baucom, Donald H ^a   Belus, Jennifer M ^a   Adelman, Caroline B ^b   Fischer, Melanie S ^a   Paprocki, Christine ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Couple therapy; Couple based interventions; Couples and psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MARITAL THERAPY; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PROCEDURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; COUPLES THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84913621915     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/famp.12075     Document Type: Article

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