W15 Learning Check

According to Gottman and Levenson's research, to stay satisfied with a close relationship, it is important to maintain a rewards-to-costs ratio of at least:

5 to 1

Match the following client case studies with the label of their therapist's approach. Each item is worth 0.2 points.

Beth and Jerry seek help from a family therapist. After de-escalating their problematic interactional cycles, the therapist asks the couple to accept their own disowned needs, to accept their partner's evolving construction of the situation, and to create emotional engagement with each other. Lastly, the therapist tries to consolidate new patterns of attachment behavior. Emotionally focused couple therapy Mallory and Gloria are in couple therapy. To help the couple move past conflict about pursuing parenthood, the therapist helps Mallory identify and confront her false core beliefs that she is worthless and her relationship with Gloria is not a family without kids. Cognitive-behavioral couple therapy Liev and Naomi are in couple therapy. As part of the therapeutic process, each has created a list of specific behaviors that the other partner finds desirable. Each day, Liev and Naomi are responsible for engaging in two of those specific, positive behaviors. traditional BCT Lindsey and Tobias are in therapy. During their last session, the therapist began to desensitize them to each other's negative behavior and increase their awareness of their own negative behaviors by having them engage in a pretend argument during which they deliberately exaggerated their most unpleasant interaction behaviors. Integrative behavioral couple therapy Marge is in therapy to address her panic attacks, which have interfered with her maternal role and are starting to create conflict for her marriage. During her session, the therapist discusses notes from Marge's dream journal and encourages her to talk about her childhood in order to explain her current difficulties. insight therapy

Which of the following is the BEST tip for enhancing your sex life?

Communication about preferences and desires.

Who is LEAST likely to recover quickly from the end of their relationship?

Danielle who scheduled a hair appointment and plans to get blackout drunk this weekend.

All of the following behaviors help to maintain relationship satisfaction EXCEPT:

Inflation of expectations

Greta has four children in her day-care class. Which child is MOST likely to have adjustment problems?

Nancy, living with both of her biological parents who argue a great deal.

Which of the following is NOT a major finding of the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS)?

Sexual dysfunctions are more prevalent among men than women.

Research on reactions to relationship dissolution indicates that people:

overestimate how painful it will be, and gradually bounce back.

In Baxter's research with college students, the most common method of breaking up involves strategies that are ______.

self-oriented and indirect

Most people who seriously participate in any of the marital therapies are likely to be better off afterward, and about _____ of them will no longer be dissatisfied with their marriages.

two-thirds