# overview
Dr. Snyder has been recognized internationally for his research on couple relationships and for his outcome research on couple therapy. He is the author of the widely-used Marital Satisfaction Inventory. He published one of the few controlled studies comparing behavioral with nonbehavioral approaches to couple therapy. A four-year follow-up study of his couples treatment research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health was recognized by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy as the Outstanding Research Contribution in 1991. Dr. Snyder is coeditor of two texts on Treating Difficult Couples and Couple-Based Interventions for Military and Veteran Families published by Guilford Press, and is coeditor of a text on Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families published by the American Psychological Association. He has two additional books with Guilford Press that address working with couples recovering from an affair, including Getting Past the Affair: A Program to Help You Cope, Heal, and Move On, and Helping Couples Get Past the Affair: A Clinician's Guide. Dr. Snyder recently coedited the 6th edition of the Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, also published by Guilford Press.

Dr. Snyder received the 2005 Award from the American Psychological Association for Distinguished Contributions to Family Psychology, and the 2015 Distinguished Psychologist Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology and Psychotherapy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions of Couple and Family Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Military Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Society for Personality Assessment. Dr. Snyder has served as Editor of the Clinician's Research Digest and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and for the Journal of Family Psychology. He also serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals in clinical psychology and family therapy.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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Wittenberg University - (Springfield, Ohio, United States)

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Division 29-Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy-Distinguished Psychologist Award

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Division 43-Society for Family Psychology-Distinguished Contribution to Family Psychology Award

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Love and war: Prospective associations between relationship distress and incidence of psychiatric disorders in active-duty Army personnel.

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MARRIAGE, DEPRESSION, AND COGNITION - UNRAVELING THE GORDIAN-KNOT - REPLY

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Help-seeking among airmen in distressed relationships: Promoting relationship well-being.

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Methodological Considerations in Validating Computer-Based Test Interpretations: Controlling for Response Bias

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Overlap of relationship distress and intimate partner violence in community samples.

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A cross-national comparison of Mexican and Mexican American couples using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (Spanish).

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Integrative approaches to couple therapy: a clinical case illustration

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Treating couples recovering from infidelity: an integrative approach.

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Gay and lesbian couples in Italy: comparisons with heterosexual couples.

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Terapie di coppia. L'approccio integrativo e l'approccio relazionale-simbolico

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Comprehensive assessment of family functioning

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Group Intervention with Parents of Psychiatrically Hospitalized Children

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Empirical descriptors of unelevated MMPI profiles among chronic pain patients: a typological approach.

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Clinical use of the marital satisfaction inventory: Two case studies

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Couples in arms: Marital distress, psychopathology, and suicidal ideation in active-duty Army personnel.

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Factor scales for assessing marital disharmony and disaffection.

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Intervening with Military Couples Struggling with Issues of Sexual Infidelity

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Reliability and equivalence of the Spanish translation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory--Revised (MSI-R).

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An integrative intervention for promoting recovery from extramarital affairs.

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Systematic and Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Couple Distress

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MARRIAGE - BASIC ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS - FINCHAM,FD, BRADBURY,TN

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Practical tools for assessing marital or intimate partner relational problems in clinical practice and public health settings

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Marital satisfaction in older adults: A comparison of community and clinic couples.

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Validity of the Computerized Interpretive Report for the Marital Satisfaction Inventory: A Customer Satisfaction Study

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Analyzing nonindependent outcomes in couple therapy using the actor-partner interdependence model.

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Parental influence on gender and marital role attitudes: implications for intervention.

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The tapestry of couple therapy: Interweaving theory, assessment, and intervention.

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Marital discord and depression in middle-aged and older couples: Is taxon status associated with depression?

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Predicting couples' response to brief directive sex therapy.

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Tailoring couple therapy to individual differences: A conceptual approach.

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ASSESSING IMPACT ON FAMILY CAREGIVERS TO ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE PATIENTS

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Treating infidelity: clinical and ethical directions.

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Optimal Strategies in Couple Therapy: Treating Couples Dealing with the Trauma of Infidelity

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Affective reconstruction in the context of a pluralistic approach to couple therapy

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Assessing disharmony and disaffection in intimate relationships: Revision of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory factor scales.

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Generalized dysfunction in clinic and nonclinic families: a comparative analysis.

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Differential patterns of wife abuse: a data-based typology.

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Forgiveness and the Dark Side of Intimate Relationships Infidelity, Intimate Partner Violence, and Divorce

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Family Emotion Regulation Processes: Implications for Research and Intervention.

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Combat disclosure in intimate relationships: mediating the impact of partner support on posttraumatic stress.

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Boot Camp Remedial Education Programs: Who Benefits?

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Helping Couples Get Past the Affair A Clinician's Guide

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Current status and future directions in couple therapy.

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Facilitating Change in Marital Therapy and Research

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Intimate partner communication from the war zone: a prospective study of relationshipfunctioning, communication frequency, and combat effectiveness.

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Methodology in family science: introduction to the special issue.

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Assessing Intimate Relationships of Chinese Couples in Taiwan Using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised.

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Couple Distress in Couple and Family Therapy

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Therapeutic Family Assessment : A Systems Approach

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Broad-band dimensions of psychopathology: factor scales for the Personality Inventory for Children.

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Determinants of sexual dissatisfaction in sexually distressed couples.

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Ethnicity and acculturation: Assessing Mexican American couples' relationships using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory - Revised

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Sexual infidelity in a national survey of American women: differences in prevalence and correlates as a function of method of assessment.

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Treating affair couples: An integrative approach to resolving trauma and promoting forgiveness

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Empirical validation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory: an actuarial approach.

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Affective Reconstructive Approach to Couple Therapy

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Affective Reconstruction: An Integrative Couple Treatment Applied to Parental Bereavement

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Dyadic Coping in Couple Therapy Process: An Exploratory Study.

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Forgiveness and the Dark Side of Intimate Relationships

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Validation of the French version of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory MSI-R

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Long-term effectiveness of behavioral versus insight-oriented marital therapy: a 4-year follow-up study.

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Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fifth Edition

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Evidence-based approaches to assessing couple distress.

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External validation of the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) profile and factor scales: Parent, teacher, and clinician ratings

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Universal processes and common factors in couple therapy and relationship education.

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Marital and family assessment: A multifaceted, multilevel approach.

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Assessing chronic pain with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

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Predicting disposition following brief residence at a shelter for battered women

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Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals

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Conceptual issues in assessing couples and families.

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Tailoring Assessment of Relationship Distress Using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Brief Form

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Current Status and Challenges in Systemic Family Therapy with Couples

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Assessing Arabic couples: An evidence-based approach

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Measurement and data analytic issues in couples research

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Assessing posttraumatic stress in military service members: improving efficiency and accuracy.

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Consistency of Maternal Report and the Personality Inventory for Children: Always Useful and Sometimes SufficientReply to Cornell

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William Ulrich Snyder (1915-2001) - Obituary

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The link between child emotional and behavioral problems and couple functioning

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Treating Infidelity and Comorbid Depression: A Case Study Involving Military Deployment

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Risks and challenges of long-term psychotherapy outcome research: Reply to Jacobson.

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Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual factors in engaging in and responding to extramarital involvement

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Still "Don't Ask" more than a decade later: The impact of research barriers for LGB+ military couples.

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An Integrative Approach to Treating Infidelity in Couples

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Differential assessment of financial and relationship distress: implications for couples therapy.

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THERES MORE TO COUNTING THAN MEETS THE EYE - COMMENT

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Predictors of Suicidal Ideation Across Deployment: A Prospective Study.

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Distinctiveness of behavioral versus insight-oriented marital therapy: an empirical analysis.

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Methodological issues and strategies in scale development.

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Resisting the Cycle of Violence: Impact of Childhood Abuse and Neglect on Individual and Relationship Functioning in Early Career Enlisted Air Force Male Service Members

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Is marital discord taxonic and can taxonic status be assessed reliably? Results from a national, representative sample of married couples.

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Predicting Marital Health From Adverse Childhood Experiences Among United States Air Force Active-Duty Personnel

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Predictors of intimacy in couples' discussions of relationship injuries: an observational study.

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Predicting couples' response to marital therapy: a comparison of short- and long-term predictors.

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Predicting relationship satisfaction from couples' use of leisure time

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COMPUTERBASED INTERPRETATION OF THE MARITAL SATISFACTION INVENTORY: USE IN TREATMENT PLANNING

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Attribution theory in intimate relationships: A Methodological review

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Affective Reconstructive Approach to Couple Therapy

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Couple therapy in the 2020s: Current status and emerging developments.

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Coming home: A prospective study of family reintegration following deployment to a war zone.

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Personality correlates of marital dissatisfaction: a comparison of psychiatric, maritally distressed, and nonclinic samples.

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Evidence-based couple therapy: current status and future directions

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Treatment of clients coping with infidelity: An introduction

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Treating affair couples: Extending the written disclosure paradigm to relationship trauma

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Combat exposure and mental health outcomes: The incremental impact of nonsexual harassment on women veterans.

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Couple-Based Interventions for Military and Veteran Families A Practitioner's Guide

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Impact of combat deployment on psychological and relationship health: a longitudinal study.

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Predicting sensitivity to nonverbal communication from the Personality Inventory for Children.

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Couple Distress in Couple and Family Therapy

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Investigating the relation between shared stressors and marital satisfaction: The moderating effects of dyadic coping and communication

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Relationship satisfaction of Mexican American and non-Hispanic white American interethnic couples: issues of acculturation and clinical intervention.

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Assessing family-of-origin functioning in Mexican American adults: retrospective application of the family environment scale.

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Affective and developmental considerations in couple therapy: Introduction to the special series

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Validation of the French version of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI-R)

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Treating distressed couples with coexisting mental and physical disorders: directions for clinical training and practice.

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Best Practices in Assessment for Couple Therapy

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Current Status and Challenges in Systemic Family Therapy with Couples

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RISKS AND CHALLENGES OF LONG-TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY OUTCOME RESEARCH - REPLY

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Convergent validity of observational and self-report measures of marital interaction.

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Development of a multilevel prevention program for improved relationship functioning in active duty military members.

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PREDICTING DEPRESSION FROM MARITAL DISTRESS AND ATTRIBUTIONAL PROCESSES

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Integrative approaches to couple therapy: implications for clinical practice and research.

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Empirical validation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory in a nonclinical sample

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Behavioral versus insight-oriented marital therapy: effects on individual and interspousal functioning.

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Systematic and Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Couple Distress

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An Integrative Approach to Treating Infidelity

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Effects of posttraumatic stress and acculturation on marital functioning in Bosnian refugee couples.

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Screening for marital and relationship discord.

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ICONOCLASM VERSUS INNOVATION - BUILDING A SCIENCE OF FAMILY-THERAPY - COMMENTS ON MOON, DILLON, AND SPRENKLE

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Distinguishing specific from nonspecific interventions in comparative outcome studies: reply to Collins and Thompson.

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Classification of Marital Relationships: An Empirical Approach

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Associations among psychological health problems, intimate-relationship problems, and suicidal ideation among United States Air Force active-duty personnel.

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Getting Past the Affair A Program to Help You Cope, Heal, and Move On-- Together Or Apart

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Utility of the Spanish translation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised in Spain.

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The risk for marital infidelity across a year-long deployment.

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Treating Affair Couples: Clinical Considerations and Initial Findings

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Forgiveness in Couples: Divorce, Infidelity, and Couples Therapy

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Differential diagnosis of marital and sexual distress: a multidimensional approach.

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Predicting couples' response to marital therapy: A comparison of short- and long-term predictors.

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Replicated MMPI subtypes for alcoholic men and women: relationship to self-reported drinking behaviors.

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Cognitive-behavioural couple therapy after an affair

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Assessing nontraditional couples: validity of the marital satisfaction inventory--revised with gay, lesbian, and cohabiting heterosexual couples.

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A Research Note On Male Chauvinism and Mexican Americans

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Comparison of external correlates of MMPI substance abuse scales across sex and race.

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Assessing linkages between interpersonal processes and anxiety disorders.

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Treating Difficult Couples Helping Clients with Coexisting Mental and Relationship Disorders

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Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families Pathways to Dysfunction and Health

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Predictors of Couples' Response to Marital Therapy

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National Institute of Mental Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Stanton, Kimberley (2015-12). Gender Differences in Emotional and Sexual Intimacy: An Examination Using Item Response Theory. Master's Thesis.

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Osborne, Laura J. (2015-12). Predictors of Pain and Somatic Functioning Following a Combat Deployment. Master's Thesis.

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Mitchell, Alexandra Elizabeth (2008-05). The effect of perceived and observed behaviors on feelings of intimacy:  a comparison of "insider" versus "outsider" perspectives. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Cooper, Danielle Louise (2006-08). The influence of experiences with serious medical conditions on self-reported health behaviors in older adolescent university students. Doctoral Dissertation.