Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2005. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 75 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2007. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-253).

Objective: The Exeter Model is an integrative systemic-behavioural and systemic-empathic couple therapy for treating people with depression. ‘Attachment narratives’ is a component of the systemic-empathic approach, which seeks to help the couple understand how past relationships impact on the current relationship with the aim of rebuilding trust and security between the couple. This study sought to examine how attachment narratives in this Model are used by therapists. Method: Narrative Analysis was employed to explore attachment narratives in three couples who had completed therapy in an outpatient clinic where one member of the couple had been referred with depression. Results: Analysis highlighted four specific ways in which therapists used attachment narratives. These consisted of: therapist enabled stories of past relationships to be foregrounded; attachment theory employed to build hypothesis about attachment styles based on past relationships; therapist helped the couple understand how attachment styles maintain unhelpful cycles of relating and introduced alternative relationship narratives enabling improved trust and security. Analysis also demonstrated the structuring of these attachment narratives across the therapy sessions. Conclusion: This study shows that through the therapist paying attention to attachment styles, awareness of unhelpful cycles of relating within couples can be highlighted, and adjustments to how the couple can relate to each other suggested. This exploratory study serves to better inform the use of the Exeter Model.

M.A. / Policing is regarded as one of the most stressful occupations that often results in psychiatric disorders, marital problems and/or divorce, alcohol abuse and suicide. The aim of Social Work Services in the South African Police Service is to promote, achieve and maintain optimum social functioning, in order to improve the productivity of the organisation’s members. Keeping the above mentioned problems in mind, the marital experience of police members needed to be explored, especially since statistics regarding marital problems in the South African Police Service are high compared to other social problems. This study was undertaken to explore the marital experience of members of the SAPS, and to provide social workers and other members of the helping professions in the SAPS, with relevant information when they are engaged in service delivery to police members. The following objectives were set for the study: • The completion of a literature study on marriage • The exploration of the SAPS culture and frame of reference concerning marital experience, within the geographical area of Trichart, Evander, Kinross and Secunda (TEKS-area), Mpumalanga. • The identification of factors that can have an influence on the marital life of members of the SAPS. The nature of the study was both exploratory and descriptive. Eighty-one (81) members of the SAPS completed a questionnaire exploring this phenomenon. The data captured were processed quantitatively. The data gathered in the study can be of significance for all members of the helping professions, as well as the functional members of the SAPS. The ideal would be to integrate the data and results obtained into individual work with members, groupwork, as well as in community work (reactive and pro-active programmes) with the following objectives: • To provide members of the SAPS with the necessary information to prepare themselves for marriage (by means of pro-active programmes specifically aimed at this). • Supporting and enriching the marital relationship of couples with a healthy marriage. • Assisting problem-orientated couples with the integration of new constructive methods of marital functioning. / Prof. C.B. Fouche

This investigation sought to discover, identify and describe in-session change episodes in marital Experiential Systemic Therapy (Friesen et al., 1989) through a naturalistic discovery-oriented methodology. This study responds to calls made regarding the need to study complex and intricate processes, such as psychotherapy (Greenberg, 1986), via discovery-oriented methods (Mahrer, 1988). The observational analysis of 40 videotaped-sessions, of three couples, revealed the presence of ten episodes of change. The actions and interactions of the members of the therapeutic system in these episodes were analyzed via the grounded theory method of analysis. This analysis generated a conceptual framework describing the internal structure of change. The resulting conceptual framework consisted of a core category named synergetic shifting. This category refers to an interactional process in which the partners with the assistance of the therapist moved away from rigid, distancing and alienating interactional patterns toward interpersonal flexibility, compassion and affiliation by working through blocks hindering the couples' engagement and intimate connection. Synergetic shifting consists of four client and three therapist categories. Within the progressive nature of synergetic shifting, the client categories were: (1) owning one's part in the relational conflict; (2) couple contacting: restricted and limited; (3) couple working through blocks to intimacy; and (4) couple engaging compassionately. The therapist's actions and interactions were categorized under supporting, transitional and shifting operations. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

The purpose of the present study was to explore the usefulness of an objectively scored self-rating sentence completion test in the development of objective prognostic statements regarding marital counseling.

The purpose of this study was to explore ways in which gender, ethnicity and the interaction of gender and ethnicity impact reports of conflict for interethnic couples. This study focuses on differences in reports of conflict by examining topics of conflict including: division of household labor, children, financial management, leisure, sex, love and affection, religion, drinking, other women or men, and in-laws. Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS- B) were used to examine the roles that gender, ethnicity and their interaction play in marital conflict within interethnic couples. The results indicated significant gender differences with men reporting more conflict about chores, money, affection, leisure, and other women and men. Significant ethnic differences were reported about sex, money, chores and affection. Findings indicate unique interactions between gender and ethnicity suggesting greater conflict about chores in Minority wife/White husband pairings and greater conflict about sex in White wife/Minority husband pairings.

武俠電影在中國電影誕生之初便佔有一席之地， 二十世紀六十年代，由邵 氏電影公司開創的武俠新世紀，給武俠電影注入了新的活力，打開了新的局面。 : 胡金銓追求製作精良、藝術至上的優質電影。而張徹作品中的務實、娛樂大眾、堅韌求生和香港起飛的每一個時代的精神相吻合。後世香港 導演繼承他們的優良特質，充滿活力動感的香港電影時至今日方成為對世界影壇的一大特殊貢獻。 本文立足 "文人武俠"，分別探討張徹、胡金銓武俠片的個人特色、思想 內容、藝術表現手法，特別是中國人文傳統、文學藝術在其作品中的表現，並 比較他們之間的異同， 以及各自對香港電影發展的貢獻。

It is the purpose of this study to determine the correct organization, content, and method of a course on marital relations for senior high school students. The organization, content, and method are to be determined by the needs and interests of the individuals concerned; educational theory, psychology, and philosophy; and medical, clinical, and research science.