Marital therapy in the treatment of depressionToward a third generation of therapy and research

Beach, Steven R. H.; Fincham, Frank D.; Katz, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/s0272-7358(98)00023-3

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“…Marriage is also thought to provide a level of health 'protection' via emotional and financial support for the individuals concerned (Umberson, 1992). Though happy marriages are shown to contribute to better psychological health (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001), marital distress/breakdown and remaining unmarried are, however, strongly associated with worse psychological health (Beach, Fincham, & Katz, 1998).…”

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Social capital and change in psychological health over time

Giordano

Lindström

2011

Social Science & Medicine

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Access to the published version may require journal subscription. Published with permission from: Elsevier Social capital and change in psychological health over time -a panel study Authors (Family name, First names) The data were split according to baseline psychological health status ('Good' or 'Poor' psychological health -the dependent variable). Using Generalised Estimating Equations, two separate models were built to investigate the association between changes from baseline psychological health over time and considered variables. An autoregressive working correlation structure was employed to derive the true influence of explanatory variables on psychological health outcomes over time.Generalised trust was the only social capital variable to maintain a positive and highly significant (OR 1.32, p < 0.001) association with psychological health in multivariable models. All measures of socioeconomic status and social support were rendered insignificant, bar one.We argue that the breakdown of the traditional family unit (and subsequent reduction in family capital investment), along with psychosocial pathways, demonstrate plausible mechanisms by which a decrease in generalised trust could lead to an increasing trend of 2 worse psychological health in youth over successive birth cohorts. Policy makers, while providing welfare solutions in response to breakdown in traditional family structure, must also consider perverse incentives they provide. If perceived as a viable lifestyle choice, welfare provision could inadvertently promote further decline of trust, at even greater cost to society.

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Social capital and change in psychological health over time

Giordano

Lindström

2011

Social Science & Medicine

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“…At a minimum, this suggests that careful assessment of family context is important in depression care in medical settings. Further, in tertiary care settings, couples therapy 24 and family therapy 25 have been shown to have an impact on depression symptoms. Medical family therapy, which is specifically adapted for use with medical patients in medical settings, 26 may improve outcomes for some depressed primary care patients.…”

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Time-Invariant and Time-Varying Predictors of Depression Symptoms in Primary Care Patients

Uebelacker

Weisberg²,

Strong³

et al. 2009

Prim. Care Companion J. Clin. Psychiatry

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Objective: The aims of this study were to examine correlates of depression symptoms, baseline predictors of change in depression symptoms, and time-varying predictors of depression symptoms in a primary care sample.Method: In this study, we assessed depression symptoms and other variables at 3 time points over the course of 6 months in 103 primary care patients with elevated depression symptoms at baseline. Data collection occurred from May 2004 to September 2007.Results: Individuals with lower income levels and those who were not married had a poorer course of depression, as assessed by Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale score, over time. Several variables fluctuated in concert with depression symptoms within individuals over time. As depression symptoms improved, family functioning, problem-solving, pain, and general health perceptions also improved. A multivariate analysis showed that problem-solving and general health perceptions predicted significant (P < .001) unique variance in fluctuations in depression symptoms within individuals.Conclusions: Care management programs for primary care depression may benefit from the inclusion of psychosocial interventions that directly target variables closely linked to depression, such as problem-solving and general health perceptions. In addition, special efforts must be made to help depressed individuals with low income and less social support.

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“…In addition, there is a relationship between marital problems, marital conflicts, marital adjustment and depression symptoms (Beach et al, 1998;Soudani et al, 2009). Conflict in human relationships is inevitable (Shahverdi et al, 2015) and disagreement in any marital relationship is natural.…”

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Comparison of the Stress, Sexual Disfunction, and Mental Happiness Coping Strategies in Two Groups of Normal Married Women and Women with Marital Conflicts

Zanbagh¹,

Chabokinezhad²

2018

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In the era that rapid and unpredictable changes have happened in human life, the family is still one of the sources that have a prominent role in protecting people, their social and emotional support, but data from past decades indicate an increase in divorce rates both in the world and in Iran. The present research aimed to compare coping strategies with stress, sexual disfunction, mental happiness in two groups of normal married women and women with marital conflicts. The research employed a causal-comparative method. The statistical population included all normal married women and women with marital conflicts who referred to counseling centers in Yazd city in 2016-2017. To this end, 150 women (75 normal married women and 75 women with marital conflicts) were selected using available sampling method. They completed the Lazarus and Fulkman (1985), Female Sexual Function Index (ROS) (2000), Panas Mental Happiness (1988) questionnaires. Data were analyzed using ANOVA and Independent T-test in SPSS software. The findings showed that there is a difference between strategies for coping with stress, sexual disfunction, and mental happiness in both married women and women with marital conflicts.

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Marital therapy in the treatment of depressionToward a third generation of therapy and research

Cited by 170 publications

References 98 publications

Social capital and change in psychological health over time

Social capital and change in psychological health over time

Time-Invariant and Time-Varying Predictors of Depression Symptoms in Primary Care Patients

Comparison of the Stress, Sexual Disfunction, and Mental Happiness Coping Strategies in Two Groups of Normal Married Women and Women with Marital Conflicts

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