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CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS RESEARCH: A RESOURCE FOR COUPLE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Jan 2004 by Hendrick, Susan S
I am a close relationships researcher and a couple/family therapist. I believe in the richness of both areas and in the ability of the professionals in them to be collaborative and thereby generate better research and therapy than could be achieved without such collaboration. Although my intention has been to introduce close relationships research to the marriage and family therapists not already familiar with it, most close relationships researchers just as surely need to be introduced to marriage and family therapy. For example, Willi and his colleagues (Riehl-Emde, Thomas, & Willi, 2003; Willi, 1997) have conducted research on love but seem largely unaware of the extensive close relationships literature on the topic. In turn, however, Willi's work is not familiar to me, or I would guess, to most close relationships love researchers. So the "education" process needs to flow in both directions.
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To foster this process, scholars from different departments can collaborate as well as seek collaboration from practitioners in their community. Practitioners can also actively seek out contacts at local colleges/universities. In addition, relevant journals can invilc contributions from other areas, just as the current article was invited. The JMFT and Personal Relationships and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships might print Tables of Contents for each other's future issues in the back of journals or might invite special issues that include contributions from both relationship researchers and marriage and family therapists. Ultimately, I want both researchers and therapists to recognize "where" each group deals with couples. We-researchers, teachers of therapists, and therapists-are all traveling companions of the couples we work with. We simply meet them at different times and in different ways as they take their relational journeys.
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Berscheid, E. (1999). The greening of relationship science. American Psychologist, 54, 260-266.
Berscheid, E., & Hatfield, E. (1978). Interpersonal attraction (2nd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Bradbury, T. N., & Fincham, F. D. (1992). Attributions and behavior in marital interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 613-628.
Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. (1999). Clinical handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical applications. New York: Guilford Press.
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