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This article outlines a solution-focused approach to premarital counseling. Solution-focused premarital counseling is a strength-based approach that focuses on a couple's resources to develop a shared vision for the marriage. Background information about premarital counseling and solution-focused therapy provide the framework for the development of intervention strategies that are grounded in the solution-focused approach. Solution-oriented interventions include solution-oriented questions, providing feedback, and the Couple's Resource Map, an original intervention that is described in this article.

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This article presents an empirical examination of the usefulness of Bowen family systems theory as a framework for understanding fibromyalgia syndrome. This cross-sectional Internet-based survey included 201 participants diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome. Results indicated that more severe symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome are significantly correlated with higher levels of perceived stress, lower levels of differentiation of self, and higher levels of emotional cutoff. In addition, indicators of differentiation of self (i.e., emotional cutoff and emotional reactivity) were found to moderate the relationship between perceived stress and symptom severity, although these indicators did not account for large proportions of the observed variances in symptom severity. Implications for Bowen family systems theory and clinical practice and recommendations for future research are discussed.

, T. L. (2007). Strengths, challenges, and relationship processes among families of children with upper limb differences: A qualitative study. Families, Systems, and Health, 20(3), 276-292.

Total magnetic fields were recorded at five sites on Mt. St. Helens between 23 October and 11 November 1981, an interval which included an extrusive dome‐building eruption of the volcano. Two of the magnetometers located in the volcano's crater measured reversible magnetic changes, which correspond to fluctuations in tilt measured nearby. However, the relationship is highly nonlinear. Electric fields were measured on the east flank of the volcano near its summit to search for electrokinetic effects. They show no correlation with the magnetic changes and, in the long term, are uncorrelated with eruptive activity. Our favored interpretation of the magnetic changes is that they result from stress‐induced changes in the magnetization of the volcano. Magnetic field values returned to pre‐anomaly values. This reversibility rules out pressure‐induced magnetization as the dominant mechanism and places an upper limit of σ ∼300 bars on the stress changes. The limited spatial extent of the magnetic anomaly field places the source of stress at shallow depth beneath the crater floor consistent with models based on strain data.