Literature reviews and meta-analyses over the past 20 years have definitively established
the efficacy of many systemic approaches to psychotherapy. Despite this important work …

The quantitative reviews of the outcome research on couple therapy show that this type of
therapy can produce positive outcomes for couples and improve relationship satisfaction …

Expectations can influence the outcome and the process of psychotherapy. Hence, this
article aims to overview the types of expectations, ie, outcome, treatment and change. Both …

Due to logistical and financial barriers that keep many distressed couples from seeking
psychotherapy, online relationship education is a more accessible alternative. In the decade …

We sampled routinely collected measures of role and outcome expectations, the expanded
therapeutic alliance, and relationship satisfaction completed by 253 heterosexual couples …

We investigated insecure attachment in relation to how actively romantic partners expect to
participate in couple therapy (role expectations for self and partner) and, consequently, how …

We designed this theory-building study to discover how split alliances are manifested in
couple therapy. From an archival database, we selected four cases in which the partners' …

In this study, we investigated the association between clients' initial outcome expectations
and their subsequent perceptions of the expanded therapeutic alliance. Romantic partners …

Objective More positive pre-or early therapy patient outcome expectation (OE) has
consistently correlated with better treatment outcomes. Thus, it is important to identify factors …

Although the negative consequences of relationship distress on mental health symptoms
have been amply documented (eg, Beach & Whisman, 2012), many distressed couples do …