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Does marriage and relationship education work? A meta-analytic study.
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A lack of racial/ethnic and economic diversity in the samples prevented reliable conclusions about the effectiveness of MRE for disadvantaged couples, a crucial deficit in the body of research.
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Continuing Bonds and Reconstructing Meaning: Mitigating Complications in Bereavement
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An interaction emerged between sense-making and ongoing attachment to the deceased, suggesting that strong continuing bonds predicted greater levels of traumatic and especially separation distress, but only when the survivor was unable to make sense of the loss in personal, practical, existential, or spiritual terms.
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Meta-analysis of MFT interventions.
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These meta-analyses support the efficacy of both MFT for distressed couples, and martial and family enrichment, and the concept of meta-analytically supported treatments (MASTs) is introduced, which are treatments that meet certain criteria for efficacy in meta-analysis, and which remedy certain problems in the empirically supported treatment (EST) literature.
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Untangling the alliance-outcome correlation: exploring the relative importance of therapist and patient variability in the alliance.
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Clinical implications include therapists monitoring their contribution to the alliance, clinics providing feedback to therapists about their alliances, and therapists receiving training to develop and maintain strong alliances.
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Effects of behavioral marital therapy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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This meta-analysis summarizes results from 30 randomized experiments that compare behavioral marital therapy with no-treatment control with distressed couples and suggests publication bias may exist in this literature whereby small sample studies with small effects are systematically missing compared with other studies.
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The effects of family therapies for adolescent delinquency and substance abuse: a meta-analysis.
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The results suggested that as a group the four family therapies had statistically significant, but modest effects as compared to treatment-as-usual, an alternative therapy, or a control group in the treatment of adolescent substance abuse and delinquency.
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The Dynamics of Self-Esteem: A Growth-Curve Analysis
Research on adolescent self-esteem has been inconsistent regarding development patterns and processes, with some scholars concluding that self-esteem is a static construct and others concluding that…
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Multiple pathways to functional impairment in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Investigating the effects of marriage and relationship education on couples' communication skills: a meta-analytic study.
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There is modest evidence that MRE functions both as a universal prevention and as a selective or indicated prevention and observational assessments produced larger effects than self-report assessments, although interpreting the meaning of this difference is difficult.
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Youth psychotherapy change trajectories and outcomes in usual care: Community mental health versus managed care settings.
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Given the overall differences observed across treatment settings for average rate of change and deterioration rates, results suggest that setting-specific model heuristics should be used for identifying cases at risk for negative outcomes.
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