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Galena Kline Rhoades, Ph.D.
Introduction
Dr. Galena Rhoades is a psychologist and leading researcher of romantic relationship development and functioning. She has been an influential contributor to the couples and family field primarily due to her research on premarital cohabitation and her role in developing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based relationship education. Her research team is housed at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, collaborating with other scholars and agencies both nationally and internationally (such as the National Institutes of Health, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Jacobs Foundation in Switzerland).
Career
Dr. Rhoades earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2007 from the University of Denver under the mentorship of Drs. Howard Markman and Scott Stanley. She completed a clinical internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2008. She then returned to the University of Denver as a...
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Rhoades, G. K. (2015). The effectiveness of the within our reach relationship education program for couples: Findings from a federal randomized trial. Family Process, 4, 672–685.
Rhoades, G. K., Stanley, S. M., & Markman, H. J. (2012). The impact of the transition to cohabitation on relationship functioning: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings. Journal of Family Psychology, 26(3), 348–358.
Rhoades, G. K., & Stanley, S. M. (2011). Using individual-oriented relationship education to prevent family violence. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, 10, 185–200.
Rhoades, G. K., Stanley, S. M., & Markman, H. J. (2009). The pre-engagement cohabitation effect: A replication and extension of previous findings. Journal of Family Psychology, 23, 107–111.
Stanley, S. M., Rhoades, G. K., & Markman, H. J. (2006). Sliding vs. deciding: Inertia and the premarital cohabitation effect. Family Relations, 55, 499–509.
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Knopp, K., Ritchie, L.L., Scott, S., Parsons, A. (2019). Rhoades, Galena. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_762
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