Emotional arousal during relationship conflict is a major target for intervention in couple therapies. The current study examines changes in conflict-related emotional arousal in 104 couples that participated in a randomized clinical trial of two behaviorally-based couple therapies. Emotional arousal is measured using mean fundamental frequency of spouse's speech, and changes in emotional arous...

background female circumcision, sexual amputation, or female genital mutilation (fgm) is an action existing in some cultures and regions of the world. for instance, in africa and some little communities in middle east use this operation for many reasons. this operation is forbidden in those countries and is never linked to religious attitudes. objectives the purpose of the following research wa...

Integrative behavioural couple therapy (IBCT) Traditional TBCT relied for its effectiveness on the ability of couples to accommodate and collaborate with each other. Aware that many couples could not do this, and that conflict could have positive as well as negative effects, Jacobson and Christensen developed the model to incorporate ‘acceptance’ as a central focus for couples with irreconcilab...

Relationship Enhancement Couple Therapy and Couple Group Therapy Barry G. Ginsberg’ Relationship enhancement couple and couple group therapy has remained innovative and effective for more than 40 years. This evidenced-based approach is an educational, skilltraining model designed to improve satisfaction and stability in the couple relationship. Couples learn how to be more accepting and nonjudg...