Sara B. Berns

TL;DR: This article summarizes and scrutinizes the growth of the development of clinically relevant and psychometrically sound approaches for determining the clinical significance of treatment effects in mental health research by tracing its evolution, by examining modifications in the method, and by discussing representative applications.

TL;DR: A randomized clinical trial compared the effects of traditional and integrative behavioral couple therapy on 134 seriously and chronically distressed married couples, stratified into moderately and severely distressed groups.

TL;DR: Results suggest that higher neuroticism, lower agreeableness, lower conscientiousness, and less positive expressivity are tied to marital dissatisfaction, but low overall levels of partner similarity were found on these variables, which suggests that nonpathological variations in these personality dimensions do not contribute to satisfaction.

TL;DR: Husbands who continued to be severely violent at 2-year follow-up were more domineering, globally negative and emotionally abusive toward their wives at Time 1 than husbands who reduced their levels of violence.

TL;DR: Both batterers and battered women showed less positive communication and more negative communication than did their nonviolent counterparts, and batterers showed significantly higher levels of both demanding and withdrawing than did other men.