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2. African American Couples in the 21st Century: Using Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) to Translate Science into Practice.
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Chambers, Anthony L.
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CULTURE , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *MARRIAGE , *MATHEMATICAL models , *PSYCHOTHERAPY , *SEX distribution , *SOCIOLOGY , *PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses , *TRUST , *EVIDENCE-based medicine , *PSYCHOLOGY of Black people , *THEORY , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *MARITAL satisfaction , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *COUPLES therapy - Abstract
The complexity of the African American community in the United States continues to evolve. The growing number of professional African Americans who grew up in the postcivil rights era combined with the persistent reminders of inequity paints a complex backdrop for understanding African American relationships. The majority of our knowledge about African American couples disproportionately comes from nonclinical social science fields such as sociology and demography. Unfortunately, the scholarly literature on how to work with African American couples is relatively scant. This paper seeks to add to this limited literature by providing clinicians and scholars with a proposed set of issues to consider when conceptualizing and treating African American couples. In particular, the complexity and nuance needed to work with African American couples are best done by using an integrative model. Thus, this paper will discuss how the Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) model is particularly well suited for working with African American couples. This paper will summarize the science on African American marriages with a focus on salient factors such as gender, SES, and trust, which will then be translated into clinical practice by utilizing a case example. The case example will be of a middle‐class couple in order to delineate the challenges and the growing heterogeneity of African Americans. The article will conclude with a commentary on the evolving heterogeneity of African Americans, which sheds light on how an integrative perspective is important for disentangling and embracing the growing complexity of African American couples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. The Effect of Divorce on Suicide in Japan: A Time Series Analysis, 1950-1980.
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Stack, Steve
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CAUSES of death , *VIOLENT deaths , *SOCIOLOGY , *INTERPERSONAL relations - Abstract
The article explores the relationship with data from a nation with a substantially different social context, Japan. American research on suicide has been based largely on American samples. Little is known about whether the results of this work, such as the link between divorce and suicide, will be replicated for nations with substantially different institutional and cultural structures. The present paper tests the marital integration theory of suicide with data from Japan. Briefly, the marital integration theory holds that as bonds to marriage weaken, suicide risk increases. Further, the kinship system in Japan is apparently more integrated than it is in the United States. For example, in Japan 37.3% of the elderly lived in three-generation households compared to only 0.5% of the elderly in the United States. Durkheim's theory of social integration and suicide emphasizes the subordination of the individual to group life as a prophylactic against suicide. Individualism in family life was emerging as the pattern for the future at the time of Durkheim's study. It is anticipated that a rising divorce rate should affect suicide risk for several groups: divorced persons; separated persons who are contemplating divorce; married persons with severe marital problems; and the children in such families.
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- 1992
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