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What does ARE stand for and who created it?

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Susan Johnson created ARE within EFT. 
Are you Accessible? - Do I matter?
Are you Responsive to my need - Can I depend on you?
Are you Engaged with me? 
Emotional presence is the solution.
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What comprises Marital Health

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Intimacy
investment
process
more than desire
it is complex
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According to McBurney, what are reasonable expectations in marriage?

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  1. Anticipate problems
  2. Discuss expectations
  3. Learn to resolve conflict
  4. Go see the Dr.
  5. Get premarital counseling
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What are the three typologies (categorical descriptions) of Marriage?

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  1. complementary
  2. balance
  3. types
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Donald Jackson is known for what type of typology of marriage?

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Complementary

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Donald Harvey is known for what type of typology of marriage?

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Balance

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David Olson is know for what type of typology of marriage?

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Types

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Explain Complementary relationships according to Donald Jackson

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Complementary relationships are based on differences which fit together, where qualities of one make up for lack of another.
-difficulty occurs in the extremes / rigidness

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Provide examples of unhealthy complementary relationships:

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  1. Rigid - complementary (one up/onedown)
  2. Symmetrical (power struggle)
  3. Fluctuating - complementary (egalitarian)
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Explain Balance Typology according to Donald Harvey

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Looking for health in marriage through balance within the following:

  1. Rigid - complementary systems (power vs. responsibility)
  2. Distancer - pursuer dynamics (emo investment / giving)
  3. Empty marriages - Dealing (conflict avoidance ) vs. Formula (his/hers/theirs)
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Explain Types according to David Olson

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Based on level of satisfaction in multiple areas (personality, communication, conflict res, financial, sexual, children/parenting, religious affli., etc)

  1. Devitalized
  2. conflicted
  3. traditional
  4. harmonious
  5. vitalized
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What is the R-DAS measuring

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marital satisfaction

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What does the R-DAS stand for?

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Revised - Dyadic Adjustment Scale

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What are the 3 subscales of the R-DAS?

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  1. Consensus
  2. Satisfaction
  3. Cohesion
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What are the parts of the Marital Complexity Paradigm by Donald Harvey?

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Individual, Emotional, Interactional

outside forces: external crises & developmental stages

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Give examples of benchmarks in a relationship

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  1. age when married
  2. length of courtship / engagement
  3. time to birth of first child
  4. time between separation/divorce
  5. time b/t divorce and remarriage
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Define Marriageability

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is this person marriageable?
marriageable is having emotional health
personal characteristics that would allow him or her to successfully engage another intimately
can this person relate to anyone healthily at all?

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List Alan Godwin’s treatment goals for “Unsafe people”

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  1. reasonable: help them out of their traps
  2. moderately unsafe/disordered: limit their influence
  3. significantly unsafe/disordered: pursue necessary self protection
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Describe compatibility

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  • deemed marriageable (can be in sig. relationship with another
  • issues become degree and types of differences
  • what will be the ease of adjustment regarding these differences?
  • the issues of state or trait
  • Alan Godwin’s “reasonable” and relatively safe people
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Six factors that make up the influence of INDIVIDUALITY in Marriage Complexity paradigm:

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  1. FOO
  2. Family constellation
  3. the “self” or general wellbeing
  4. psychological factors
  5. gender factors
  6. life experiences (other than FOO)
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Emotional Tone refers to the __________ in a marriage

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“want to”

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The PAIR is used to assess ____________

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Authors of Moving Beyond Gender

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Carmen Knudson-Martin & Anne Mohoney

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Three types of couples identified in Moving Beyond Article

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  1. postgender
  2. gender-legacy
  3. traditional
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define traditional couples
traditional couples consciously organize their family life around gender and say the "know their roles"
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define postgender couples
postgender couples assume all aspects of family life is shared. The consciously reject old gender constructions and actively work to create relationship patterns based on mutuality
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define gender legacy couples
gender legacy couples reflect the contradictory pulls between equality and gender expectations at the institutional level. They have skills and preferences that remain closely linked to their gender. May say things are equal, but often the woman still takes responsibility for family org / wellness.
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"Equal sharing of power has been found to contribute to relationship success and satisfaction for both men and women."
Gottman & Silver, 1999; Steil 1997
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Relationship equality is related to fewer symptoms of depression and higher levels of emotional well being and intimacy
Steil, 1997
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A Feminist Analysis of self help best-sellers for improving relationships AUTHORS:
1. Toni Zimmerman 2. Kristen Holm 3. Marjorie Starrels
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How are egalitarian couples characterized according to Zimmerman, Holm, and Starrels?
as having a balance of decision making and financial power, shared responsibility for major areas of life and equal opportunities to pursue work and life goals.
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What should feminist family therapists empower clients to do?
explore many options for their lives, specifically non-traditional options to make choices based on a full range of options
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Feminist family therapy is characterized by _______________
non-hierarchical relationships between therapists and clients
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define marital schism
when one parent tries to undermine the worth of the other by trying to elicit sympathy from a child
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define marital skew
when one spouse denies the negative impact of the other
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what does PAIR stand for
Personal assessment of intimacy in relationships
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who is the creator of the process of marital disaffection?
Karen Kayser
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name the 5 steps of marital disaffection
1. disaffection 2. dissatisfaction 3. breakdown 4. dissolution 5. instability
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define marital disaffection
gradual loss of an emotional attachment; indifference; indicator of spouse's feelings of love and affection
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define marital dissatisfaction
refers to perceived low degree of adjustment or unhappiness with a relationship; can be transitory; disaffection is the absence of loving feelings usually occurring after an accumulation of dissatisfactions within the marriage
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define marital breakdown
describes the decline in the attractiveness of the relationship; turbulence in feelings about the relationship, but does not necessarily indicate a low degree of love/affection
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define marital dissolution
involves ending or permanent dismemberment of a relationship and usually involves legal act of divorce
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define martial instability
the propensity to dissolve the marriage even though dissolution may not be the final outcome
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what contributes most to marital disaffection? | according to Kayser in When Love Dies
partner's control, 20% partner's lack of intimate beh, 20% partner's other negative trait, 14% partner's inability to resolve probs, 8%
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According to DeShazer, what are 4 questions to ask couples to assess the couple connection?
1. On a scale of 1-10, how much do you want this marriage? 2. What is keeping you together? 3. What do you (husband) think your wife would say is your greatest value to her? and vice versa 4. How satisfied are you with the frequency and quality of sex (scaling question)
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What is phase I of marital disaffection?
disappointment - anger, awareness of partner's flaws, attempts made unilaterally to solve marital probs (would this be Richard Greer in Shall we Dance?)
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what is phase II of marital disaffection?
between disappointment and disaffection - intense anger/hurt; partner's neg traits are viewed as a pattern, person considers staying/leaving marriage; person confronts partner re: probs in marriage; phy and emo withdraw from marriage
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what is phase III of marital disaffection?
reaching disaffection - anger, apathy, hopelessness; making plans to end marriage, focus on partner's neg traits; actions to dissolve marriage
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A change of Heart is by __________
Donald Harvey
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The real danger of hopelessness is by __________
Donald Harvey
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what are the 4 stations of hopelessness?
1. despair - emo intensity; dep/anx, entrapment, anger 2. defeat - emotionless 3. disregard - willingness to bargain; est separate life 4. disengagement - similar to disregard w/o hostility and bargaining; has lost hope; healthiest of stages, although none are good
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What is the PAIR by David Olson measuring?
Intimacy: 1. emotional intimacy 2. social intimacy 3. sexual intimacy 4. intellectually intimacy 5. recreational intimacy

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