Mutuality and the marital engagement – type of union scale [ME (to US)]: Empirical support for a clinical instrument in couples therapy

Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 123-138

  Singer, Jefferson A ^a   Labunko, Beata ^b   Alea, Nicole ^c   Baddeley, Jenna L ^d  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

^b Clifford W Beers Guidance Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Couples; Mutuality; Psychometric; Relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942933425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9909-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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