Marital and Family Processes in Depression
A Scientific Foundation for Clinical Practice
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-55798-695-5 (ISBN)
Description
Research over the last two decades of the 20th century has revealed a robust reciprocal relationship between depression and marital dissatisfaction, but it was only at the end of this period that researchers were able to tease out the most clinically useful and coherent patterns in the data depicting this relationship. In this volume, scholars synthesize these data, describe data analysis strategies, and present original research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to include perspectives from developmental psychopathology, social and personality psychology, and clinical research and practice. The recurrent nature of depression, significant gender differences in interpersonal patterns, and the need to tailor marital therapy to account for differences among subgroups of depressed patients are among the themes explored by chapter authors. Their conclusions imply fundamental shifts in the way we frame questions about families and pathology, conduct research, and attempt to intervene therapeutically in the lives of depressed patients.
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Edition
2001 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-695-5 (9781557986955)
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Content
The Association Between Depression and Marital Dissatisfaction, Mark A. Whisman; Not Agent Blue - Effects of Marital Functioning on Depression and Implications for Treatment, James C. Coyne and Nili R. Benazon; Depressive Symptoms and Marital Satisfaction in the Early Years of Marriage - Narrowing the Gap Between Theory and Research, Benjamin R. Karney; Paths to Unhappiness - the Overlapping Courses of Depression and Romantic Dysfunction, Joanne Davila; Parental Depression and Family Functioning - Toward a Process-Oriented Model of Children's Adjustment, E. Mark Cummings, Gina DeArth-Pendley, Tina du Rocher Schudlich and David A. Smith; Self Verification Theory - Expanding Current Conceptualizations of the Link Between Marital Distress and Depression, Jennifer Katz; Nodes of Consilience Between Interpersonal-Psychological Theories of Depression, Thomas E. Joiner Jr; Perceptions of Family Functioning of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal African American Women, Nadine J. Kaslow, Heather Twomey, Amy Brooks, Martie Thompson and Bettie Reynolds; Marital Discord and Partner Abuse - Correlates and Causes of Depression, K. Daniel O'Leary and Annmarie Cano; Couple Therapy for Depression - Using Healthy Relationships to Treat Depression, James V. Cordova and Christina B. Gee; Marital Therapy for Co-Occurring Marital Discord and Depression, Steven R.H. Beach.