Gayle A. Dakof

TL;DR: DeLongis et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between major life events and daily hassles, the repeated or chronic strains of everyday life, and found that the relationship was strongly associated with health.

TL;DR: Two studies proposed and found that a comparison can produce either positive or negative feelings about oneself, independent of its direction, and found individuals with high marital dissatisfaction and those who felt uncertain about their marital relationship were more likely to experience negative affect from upward and downward comparisons.

TL;DR: Cancer patients were interviewed concerning the specific actions they found to be helpful or unhelpful from several potential support providers: spouse, other family members, friends, acquaintances, others with cancer, physicians, and nurses, and the Wortman and Dunkel-Schetter victimization model.

TL;DR: Results support the efficacy of MDFT, a relatively short-term, multicomponent, multitarget, family-based intervention in significantly reducing adolescent drug abuse and facilitating adaptive and protective developmental processes.

TL;DR: The authors identified, articulated, and measured therapist behaviors associated with improving initially poor therapist-adolescent alliances in multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) and generated a list of preliminary alliance-building interventions from MDFT theory and adolescent development research.