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| STEVEN R. H. BEACH, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institute for Behavioral Research and Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia. For the past 20 years, Dr. Beach has been examining the role of marital processes in depression. He is interested both in the potential of marital relationship variables to protect against depression as well as the potential of depression to precipitate marital problems. More recently, he has focused attention on the role of self-evaluation maintenance processes in marital satisfaction and marital behavior. Dr. Beach is interested in prevention and treatment as well as developing better models of the linkage between intrapersonal and interpersonal systems. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at State University of New York at Stony Brook. |
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Summary
8 hours CE
Steven R. H. Beach, Ph.D. (Ed)
A synthesis of the data describing present research on the course of marital distress and depression. Discusses the bidirectional nature of depression and marital dissatisfaction, lists the risks for psychopathology in children of depressed parents, and describes a protocol for behavioral marital therapy for depression.
Learning Objectives - identify the association of depressiona and marital dissatisfaction
- identify the effects of parental depression on family functioning
- describe self-verification theory
- identify appropriate, effective treatments for marital dissatisfaction
- identify the relationship between marital dissatisfaction and partner abuse
Table of Contents
- The Association Between Depression and Marital Dissatisfaction by Mark A. Whisman
- Not Agent Blue: Effects of Marital Functioning on Depression and Implications for Treatment by James C. Coyne and Nili R. Benazon
- Depressive Symptoms and Marital Satisfaction in the Early Years of Marriage: Narrowing the Gap Between Theory and Research by Benjamin R. Karney
- Paths to Unhappiness: The Overlapping Courses of Depression and Romantic Dysfunction by Joanne Davila
- Parental Depression and Family Functioning: Toward a Process-Oriented Model of Children's Adjustment by E. Mark Cummings, Gina DeArth-Pendley, Tina Du Rocher Schudlich, and David A. Smith
- Self Verification Theory: Expanding Current Conceptualizations of the Link Between Marital Distress and Depression by Jennifer Katz
- Nodes of Consilience Between Interpersonal-Psychological Theories of Depression byThomas E. Joiner, Jr.
- Perceptions of Family Functioning of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal African American Women by Nadine J. Kaslow, Heather Twomey, Amy Brooks, Martie Thompson, and Bettie Reynolds
- Marital Discord and Partner Abuse: Correlates and Causes of Depression by K. Daniel O'Leary and Annmarie Cano
- Couples Therapy for Depression: Using Healthy Relationships to Treat Depression by James V. Cordova and Christina B. Gee
- Marital Therapy for Co-Occurring Marital Discord and Depression by Steven R.H. Beach
Pub date 2001 259pp 8 hours CE
Difficulty Level:Intermediate
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