Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology

Whisman, Mark A.; Baucom, Donald H.

doi:10.1007/s10567-011-0107-2

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“…This model for program directions is further supported by emerging evidence for bi-directional and transactional influence processes in families, including the impact of adolescent functioning on parental functioning. Substantial evidence for relations between inter-parental conflict and the adjustment of multiple family members (adults and children) and relationships (mother-child and father-child) supports the urgency for more comprehensive outcome assessments than couple relationship satisfaction or related constructs (Cummings and Davies 2010;Whisman and Baucom 2011). Relatedly, for families with children, there is strong evidence for including child and adolescent assessments as well as evaluations of the parents.…”

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Family Conflict, Emotional Security, and Child Development: Translating Research Findings into a Prevention Program for Community Families

Cummings

Schatz

2012

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The social problem posed by family conflict to the physical and psychological health and well-being of children, parents, and underlying family relationships is a cause for concern. Inter-parental and parent-child conflict are linked with children's behavioral, emotional, social, academic, and health problems, with children's risk particularly elevated in distressed marriages. Supported by the promise of brief psycho-educational programs (e.g., Halford et al. in Journal of Family Psychology 22:497-505, 2008; Sanders in Journal of Family Psychology 22:506-517, 2008), the present paper presents the development and evaluation of a prevention program for community families with children, concerned with family-wide conflict and relationships, and building on Emotional Security Theory (Davies and Cummings in Psychological Bulletin 116:387-411, 1994). This program uniquely focuses on translating research and theory in this area into brief, engaging programs for community families to improve conflict and emotional security for the sake of the children. Evaluation is based on multi-domain and multi-method assessments of family-wide and child outcomes in the context of a randomized control design. A series of studies are briefly described in the programmatic development of a prevention program for conflict and emotional security for community families, culminating in a program for family-wide conflict and emotional security for families with adolescents. With regard to this ongoing program, evidence is presented at the post-test for improvements in family-wide functioning, consideration of the relative benefits for different groups within the community, and preliminary support for the theoretical bases for program outcomes.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Family Conflict, Emotional Security, and Child Development: Translating Research Findings into a Prevention Program for Community Families

Cummings

Schatz

2012

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…The question is how the partner should be involved: as a co-therapist, as part of the dysfunctional system, or as someone in need of individual treatment? Discussing the interaction between intimate relationships and psychopathology, one of the approaches advocated by Whisman and Baucom (2012) consists of disorder-specific interventions, in which the emphasis is on the domains that are focal to the patient's disorder. Here, the therapist helps the couple to identify ways to alter their relationship in order to overcome the identified patient's psychological problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder by Proxy: A Case Study

Bouman

Gofers

2016

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) by proxy is a body image disorder that causes great discomfort to the patient and significant others. Patients suffering from this condition are preoccupied with dissatisfaction about the other person's appearance. There is very little research on the treatment of this disorder. This paper presents a description of the cognitive behavioral treatment of a case of BDD by proxy. The patient is a 36-year-old male who exhibited extreme dissatisfaction with his spouse's appearance. Thirteen sessions of cognitive behavior therapy were supplemented with couple interventions and a trial of pharmacotherapy. Treatment effects were evaluated using an adapted version of the BDD-YBOCS to establish the severity of BDD by proxy, and the Symptom Check List (SCL-90) as a general measure of psychopathology. Visual inspection of the data and the calculation of Reliable Change Indices (RCI) showed that CBT led to a clinically significant reduction in BDD by proxy symptomatology (RCI = 10.6), and in anxiety, depression, and obsessionality. In addition, according to clinical impressions, marital functioning also improved to a considerable extent. This case description is the first to suggest the potential benefits of CBT for BDD by proxy.

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“…Some scholars have theorized that the association between marital distress and depressive symptoms would be greater among women than men (Beach et al,, 2003;Fincham, Beach, Harold, & Osbome, 1997), Although some research has found that the relationship between marital distress and depressive symptoms is stronger for women (Fincham et al,, 1997), the bulk of studies have found no gender differences (Beach et al, 2003;Whisman, 2007;Whisman & Uebelacker, 2009), including the study conducted in Singapore (Sandberg et al,, 2012), Most of the research on marital distress and depression has examined the effect of marital distress on one's own depressive symptoms (Whisman & Baucom, 2012). However, the marital discord model of depression suggests that a spouse's marital distress creates less support and more hostility in the relationship, which puts the other spouse at increased risk to experience depressive symptoms.…”

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Marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms in China.

Miller¹,

Mason²,

Canlas³

et al. 2013

Journal of Family Psychology

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Although there is substantial evidence that low marital satisfaction is a significant risk factor for depression, little research has examined this relationship in cultures outside of the U.S. and Europe. The validity of the marital discord model of depression in Chinese culture was tested by studying 391 couples living in Beijing and Hangzhou, China. Results of structural equation modeling using an actor-partner interdependence model strategy indicated that husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction was significantly predictive of their own depressive symptoms. In addition, wives' marital satisfaction significantly predicted husbands' depressive symptoms. These results provide evidence that the marital discord model of depression is useful in understanding the role of marital dissatisfaction as a risk factor for depressive symptoms in collectivistic societies, such as China.

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Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology

Cited by 321 publications

References 41 publications

Family Conflict, Emotional Security, and Child Development: Translating Research Findings into a Prevention Program for Community Families

Family Conflict, Emotional Security, and Child Development: Translating Research Findings into a Prevention Program for Community Families

CBT for Body Dysmorphic Disorder by Proxy: A Case Study

Marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms in China.

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