Linda Charvoz

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne · Social Work

Aujourd'hui, en Suisse romande, quels sont les besoins de soutien exprimés par les personnes concernées par la trisomie 21 ? À quels services de soutien font-elles appel ? De quels types de nouveaux services auraient-elles besoin ? Ce sont les interrogations auxquelles la recherche menée par le réseau de compétences NeuroDev a souhaité répondre. C...

Aujourd'hui, en Suisse romande, quels sont les besoins de soutien exprimés par les personnes concernées par la trisomie 21 ? À quels services de soutien font-elles appel ? De quels types de nouveaux services auraient-elles besoin ? Ce sont les interrogations auxquelles la recherche menée par le réseau de compétences NeuroDev a souhaité répondre. C...

This qualitative descriptive study aims to explore the lived experience of the adjustment process of couples who face vision loss, investigating the impact of such loss on daily life and the adjustments and adaptations that ensue. To undertake such an exploration, the application of an occupational perspective is relevant where the meaning and purp...

Background: Perceptual congruence has been defined as the level of agreement between partners on various aspects of their shared lives, including perceived engagement in individual and jointly performed activities. While the level of adjustment made by partners to such activities is thought to contribute to a couple’s sense of mutuality, perception...

Although research on men’s stress expression, coping strategies, and attitudes toward support has been accumulated, there is a lack of evaluation of men’s stress expression and perception of their partners’ supportiveness within the context of romantic relationships. This review summarizes findings related to factors that influence men’s expression...

BACKGROUND Interpersonal perception (IP) is defined as the reciprocal perceptions between two individuals and the degree of congruence between these perceptions. People in coupled relationships should develop accurate and prescient beliefs and perceptions about the other. So, understanding how each partner respectively perceives their level of inte...

We examined the evolution of the subjective burden of romantic partners caring for women with non-metastatic breast cancer and investigated the moderating role of couple satisfaction on caring stress. Forty-seven partners filled out questionnaires 3 and 12 months after surgery. Using a stress process model, we examined caring stressors and moderati...

The aim of this study was to assess the links between partners' and women's expressed emotion with the distress of one another during the first year after surgery for breast cancer in women. The design was longitudinal. A sample of 61 couples participated in the study at 2 weeks, 3 months, and 12 months after the surgery. Expressed emotion was asse...

Objectives: To investigate expressed emotion (EE) in couples facing breast cancer in the immediate post-surgery period. EE may be predictive of psychological disturbances that hinder both partners' capacities to cope with the stress of the disease. Severity of the disease, attachment tendencies, and couple satisfaction were tested as predictors of...

The aim of this study was to assess, in the immediate postsurgical period, the influence of attachment avoidance and anxiety on distress and body image disturbances in women facing breast cancer. Seventy-five women participated in the study 3 weeks after surgery. Questionnaires were used to assess study variables. To predict distress and body image...

The aim of this study was to investigate Expressed Emotion (EE) in couples facing breast cancer in the immediate postsurgery period. EE may be predictive of psychological disturbances that may hinder both partners’ capacities to cope with the stress of the disease. Severity of the disease, couple satisfaction and attachment tendencies are tested as...

Breast cancer is a reality for 5000 women in Switzerland every year and, when these women are in a committed relationship, represents a critical event for their partners as well. For this reason, there is now a consensus in the literature to consider breast cancer as an event involving couples as much as women alone. Research should also take into...

p>Breast cancer is a reality for 5000 women in Switzerland every year and, when these women are in a committed relationship, represents a critical event for their partners as well. For this reason, there is now a consensus in the literature to consider breast cancer as an event involving couples as much as women alone. Research should also take int...

Body image (BI) disturbances are linked to depression. In breast cancer patients, BI is affected by the surgery and by the side-effects of treatments. However there are individual differences in BI disturbances that are not explained by the medical condition only. The aim of this study is thus to find additional predictors of BI disturbances. 71 Sw...

Background: Breast cancer (BC) and its treatments are associated with a range of psychological and medical outcomes which can negatively affect sexual functioning. Studies have mainly been focused on the post-treatment period, and few is known about the pre-treatment sexual life of the women, about the changes that have occurred after the treatment...

This study investigated the validity and reliability of the French translation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (MSI-R). This multidimensional measure of relationship functioning has shown its contribution in international studies but has also been used in clinical context to measure the nature and intensity of distress in a marriage o...

Background: Expressed Emotion (EE) is a construct assessing the emotional attitudes of relatives of individual with medical or psychiatric condition. Preliminary results suggested associations between patients’ and partners’ EE and psychological distress of the both partners in the context of breast cancer. The purpose of this study is to compare t...

Background: Breast cancer (BC) and its treatments are associated with a range of psychological and medical outcomes which can negatively affect sexual functioning. Studies have mainly been focused on the post-treatment period, and few is known about the pre-treatment sexual life of the women, about the changes that have occurred after the treatment...

This study investigated the validity and reliability of the French translation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory—Revised (MSI-R). This multidimensional measure of relationship functioning has shown its contribution in international studies but has also been used in clinical context to measure the nature and intensity of distress in a marriage o...

Background: Attachment theory provides a general model for understanding the way individuals emotionally react when stressed. Two main dimensions of attachment have been identified: anxiety (to exacerbate the emotional needs and dependence to others) and avoidance (to downplay threat and distress).This study examines the association between treatme...

BACKGROUND: Expressed Emotion (EE) is a construct assessing the emotional attitudes of relatives of individual with medical or psychiatric condition. Criticism, hostility, emotional overinvolvement are interpersonal aspects included in the EE-concept. The association between EE and the frequency and severity of symptoms, the patients’ management or...

p>BACKGROUND: Attachment theory provides a general model for understanding the way individuals emotionally react when stressed. Two main dimensions of attachment have been identified: anxiety (to exacerbate the emotional needs and dependence to others) and avoidance (to downplay threat and distress).This study examines the association between treat...

This article introduces the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI; Bodenmann, 2008) and aims (a) to investigate the reliability and aspects of the validity of the Italian and French version of the original German DCI and (b) to replicate the factorial structure and reliabilities of the scale using a new Swiss German sample. Based on 216 Swiss, 378 Italian a...

Five hundred eighty divorced individuals from Germany, Italy, and Switzerland provided retrospective reports on the perceived similarities and differences between themselves and their former partner and on their own and their partner's attractiveness. Initiators and noninitiators were compared with regard to these different variables. Results demon...

Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bestehende Befunde verweisen auf klare Zusammenhänge zwischen dem partnerschaftlichen Kommunikationsverhalten und dem Verlauf von Depressionen. Untersuchungen zu den Auswirkungen von Therapieansätzen zur Behandlung von Depressionen auf die dyadische Kommunikation sind jedoch kaum vorhanden. Methode: Mittels Varianzanalyse...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of treating depression with coping-oriented couples therapy (COCT) as compared with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT; A. T. Beck, C. Ward, & M. Mendelson, 1961) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT; M. M. Weissman, J. C. Markowitz, & G. L. Klerman, 2000). Sixty couples, including 1 clinically...

Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bestehende Befunde sprechen fur einen bedeutungsvollen Zusammenhang zwischen der partnerschaftlichen Bewaltigung von Stress und dem Verlauf von depressiven Erkrankungen. Methode: Es wurden erstmals Therapieeffekte (Pra-Post) der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie KVT (n = 17 Paare), der interpersonellen Therap...

Drawing upon earlier models of stress and divorce, this retrospective study investigates how divorced individuals appraise the role of stress in their divorce. Data from divorced individuals (N = 662) from Germany, Italy, and Switzerland suggest that low commitment and deficits in interpersonal competencies (communication, problem solving, coping)...

A total of 711 divorced individuals from Germany, Italy and Switzerland provided retrospective reports on their perception of at-tractors and barriers to divorcing. This study combines the evaluation of macro-level variables (represented by three different countries) and micro-level variables (psychological variables) to better understand attractor...

This study examines the psychometric properties of the French-version of the Partnership Questionnaire (PFB) and compares this questionnaire with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). 225 couples, married or living together for at least 3 years, participated in this research and each partner responded individually to the PFB or to both scales. The res...

Investigations of the individual and interpersonal coping resources of depressed persons are underrepresented in the field of research on depression. Whereas some studies have been conducted on depressed couples evaluating individual coping or social support from others, only a few studies have addressed the topic of dyadic coping, or the way both...

Zusammenfassung. Es wird die Frage untersucht, wie familiare Variablen den Substanzkonsum (Alkohol, Nikotin, Haschisch, Medikamente) von Jugendlichen vorhersagen. Als Pradiktoren seitens der Familie werden die Zufriedenheit der Jugendlichen mit ihrer Familie, das familiare Funktionsniveau mit den Dimensionen Kohasion und Adaptabilitat, die gemeinsa...

This article presents a new preventive approach (Couples Coping Enhancement Training: CCET) aimed at expanding upon the scope of current prevention programs by focussing on stress issues and individual and dyadic coping skills. The cognitive behavioral prevention program is based on stress and coping research in couples and seeks to improve importa...

The Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) (Bodenmann, 1996, 2000a) gives theoretical imputs and practical advice in regard to the enhancement of couples' stress management during eighteen hours. Further the improvement of their dyadic communication and their problem-solving are addressed. The general effectiveness of the training is evaluated...

The Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) (Bodenmann, 1996, 2000a) gives theoretical imputs and practical advice in regard to the enhancement of couples' stress management during eighteen hours. Further the improvement of their dyadic communication and their problem-solving are addressed. The general effectiveness of the training is evaluated...

The Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) (Bodenmann, 1996, 2000a) gives theoretical imputs and practical advice in regard to the enhancement of couples' stress management during eighteen hours. Further the improvement of their dyadic communication and their problem-solving are addressed. The general effectiveness of the training is evaluated...