Kathleen A Eldridge

Pepperdine University · The Graduate School of Education and Psychology

In deze multiple-casestudie wordt onderzoek gedaan naar IBCT-relatietherapie, een empirisch ondersteunde derde generatie gedragstherapie voor de behandeling van koppels. IBCT is ontwikkeld om koppels te helpen omgaan met verschillen en in deze studie kijken we naar de toepassing hiervan bij koppels met problemen als gevolg van zelfverklaarde versch...

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), an empirically supported third-wave behavioral approach for the treatment of couples, is examined in this multiple case study. IBCT was developed to help couples navigate challenging differences, so this study examines its use with couples reporting problems arising from differences in self-identified c...

Couples have a unique perspective to share about the therapy they receive. The current study uses a mixed-methods design to examine what couples report about most and least helpful elements of two behaviorally-based treatments tested in a large clinical trial of couple therapy. Results indicate that responses are highly variable and fall into five...

Replicated FindingsTheoriesThe Proximal and Distal Context of Demand-Withdraw CommunicationImmediate and Long-term Consequences of Demand-Withdraw CommunicationTreatment ResponsivenessFuture Research DirectionsConclusion References

To examine changes in observed communication after therapy termination in distressed couples from a randomized clinical trial. A total of 134 distressed couples were randomly assigned to either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT; Jacobson & Christensen, 1998). Video...

Associations between vocally expressed emotional arousal, influence tactics, and demand/withdraw behavior were examined in a treatment-seeking sample of 130 seriously and stably distressed, married, heterosexual couples and in a community sample (N = 38) of 18 married heterosexual and 20 dating heterosexual couples. Fundamental frequency was used t...

Links between pronoun use, relationship satisfaction, and observed behavior were examined during 2 problem-solving interactions in which 134 distressed and 48 nondistressed couples participated. Results supported hypotheses that distressed and nondistressed couples would use pronouns at significantly different rates, and that rates would also diffe...

To investigate changes in couple communication and potential mechanisms of change during treatment, 134 distressed couples, who were randomly assigned to either traditional or integrative behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; IBCT), were observed in relationship and personal problem discussions prior to and near the end of treatment. Analyses were condu...

Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between marital distress and depression. Empirical findings from investigations into the relative contributions of marital distress and depression to marital communication have been inconsistent, and some communication behaviors, such as the demand/withdraw interaction pattern, have yet to b...

This study investigated demand-withdraw communication among 68 severely distressed couples seeking therapy, 66 moderately distressed couples seeking therapy, and 48 nondistressed couples. Self-report and videotaped discussions replicated previous research, demonstrating that greater demand-withdraw during relationship problem discussions was associ...

In order to examine the cross-cultural consistency of several patterns of couple communication, 363 participants from four different countries (Brazil, Italy, Taiwan, and the United States) completed self-report measures about communication and satisfaction in their romantic relationships. Across countries, constructive communication was positively...

Infidelity is a common issue with which distressed couples and their therapists grapple. However, there are no data on the efficacy of commonly used therapies to treat couples in which there has been an affair. In the present exploratory study, the authors examined the therapy outcomes of a sample of infidelity couples (n=19) who had participated i...

Studying the demand-withdraw pattern is informative because it goes beyond the investigation of global positive or negative communication to an analysis of more specific behaviors. Researchers have attempted to understand this pattern by investigating the concurrent and longitudinal associations between demanding-withdraw interaction and relationsh...

This study replicated and extended research on the demand-withdraw communication pattern. A sample of 109 married couples (39 highly distressed couples seeking therapy, 37 low distress couples seeking therapy, and 33 nondistressed couples) participated. Pretreatment communication was assessed with self-report questionnaires and two videotaped confl...

Although traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT) has garnered the most empirical support of any marital treatment, concerns have been raised about both its durability and clinical significance. Integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT) was designed to address some of these limitations by combining strategies for fostering emotional acceptan...

Because of the limited effectiveness of behavioral couple therapy, many professionals have tried to modify it and test new protocols against existing strategies. A. Christensen and N. Jacobson have also attempted to enhance behavioral couple therapy. They have added strategies to help couples emotionally accept each other before trying to implement...

There has been little effort by behavior therapists to develop couple interventions that view marriage from a content-relevant or developmental perspective. Consequently, we have delineated ways in which a perspective of intimate relationships including individual factors and dyadic development might guide the enhancement of traditional behavioral...

How spouses support one another may be important in understanding and preventing marital distress but has received relatively little attention. Instead, the behavioral model of marriage and corresponding treatment protocols have focused on the importance of good conflict management skills in preventing and treating marital distress. This article ou...

There has been little effort by behavior therapists to develop couple interventions that view marriage from a content-relevant or developmental perspective. Consequently, we have delineated ways in which a perspective of intimate relationships including individual factors and dyadic development might guide the enhancement of traditional behavioral...