Highlights•Secure attachment is associated with health and well-being.•Secure attachment
is associated with a reduced neurophysiological stress response.•EFT helps couples create …

Based upon a qualitative metasynthesis of 49 articles centered on clients' experiences of
their conjoint couple and family therapy, the investigators constructed a grounded formal …

Infidelity can have a devastating effect on marriages and individuals. This qualitative study
explores the process of healing from infidelity and therapist behaviors that facilitate this …

Betrayal trauma threatens pair-bond attachment relationships. Across a trajectory of repair
and healing, offenders and aggrieved partners manifest distinct trajectories, with …

Volume IV of The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy considers family-level interventions
for issues of global public health. Information on the effectiveness of relational treatment is …

Common factors in couple and family therapy (CFT) have been discussed theoretically and
clinically, with limited direct empirical support for CFT-specific common factors. The purpose …

Incorporating the pair-bond attachment relationship into recovery from addiction represents
a contextually inclusive perspective on the dynamics and consequences of addiction and …

Attachment issues are viewed by many therapists as lying at the heart of couple distress. It is
critical to empirically validate therapy processes that facilitate couples in responding to each …

Empirical data, clinical observation, and theoretical rationales support use of enactments as
a fundamental mechanism of change in relationship therapies. Yet beginning therapists may …

Human social life is mostly known by its communicative characteristic which is addressed as
social relations. Nowadays a wide range of theories are concerned with explanation of such …