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Couples Coping Enhancement Training Enrichment Program

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Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) program

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The Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) program is a distress prevention training program for couples that aims to reduce martial distress and increase relationship satisfaction by helping couples improve their understanding of stress and coping, and acquire relationship skills. The program is based both upon stress and coping theory and research on couples. As everyday stressors can have a negative effect on relationship quality and satisfaction (Randall and Bodenmann 2009), and marital communication is especially affected by stress (e.g., Repetti 1989), the CCET focuses on building coping and communication skills with the aim of improving the quality of their relationship (Halford and Bodenmann 2013). In addition to traditional elements of couples programs (e.g., communication and problem-solving skills), CCET also addresses individual and dyadic coping (i.e., couples coping together as a unit)...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Courtney K. Johnson-Fait

  2. Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Ashley K. Randall

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse, Zurich, Switzerland

    Guy Bodenmann

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  1. Courtney K. Johnson-Fait
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Correspondence to Courtney K. Johnson-Fait .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jay L. Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Anthony L. Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Council for Relationships, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Heather Pederson

  2. Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA

    Diana Semmelhack

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Johnson-Fait, C.K., Randall, A.K., Bodenmann, G. (2019). Couples Coping Enhancement Training Enrichment Program. 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_768

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