An ability to form and develop a collaborative alliance with each partner and to enlist their support for relationship-focused therapy, for example by: responding empathically in order to validate the experience of each partner, especially their emotional experience accepting and exploring each partner’s reservations about engaging in couple therapy gauging when and whether separate sessions ar...

BACKGROUND There is a strong reciprocal association between two highly prevalent public health problems: intimate partner violence and heavy drinking, both of which remain major sources of morbidity and mortality. Brief interventions in the Emergency Department setting have been found to be effective in reducing alcohol-related injury but neither classic intimate partner violence nor substance ...

Title of Document: COMMON FACTORS IN COUPLE THERAPY FOR PARTNER AGGRESSION: A THERAPY PROCESS AND OUTCOME STUDY Woochul Park, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Ph.D. Department of Family Science The present study investigated roles of common factors related to outcome indices that exist across therapy models in couple therapy for partner aggressio...

Research from National Commission on Elimination of Violence against Women found that dating violence was ranked second after domestic in terms number cases reported 2018 Indonesia. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) one the consequences survivors experienced. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) had been proven effective to treat PTSD intimate partner survivors. However, there no prior resear...