February 2021

I have spent my semester navigating the vicissitudes of a long-distance relationship as a first-year doctoral student in marriage and family therapy. This relationship has its own set of challenges that is testing the merits of my newly minted pursuit. Even though we are only 189 miles apart, my fiancee, Anita, was not happy with …

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A Call To Action Attention to the relevance of the psychosocial areas of a patient’s life has yielded impressive results in patient-health research studies. The impact has crossed several areas in health­ care, including patient utilization, quality, and cost-effectiveness ofhealthcare. In 2003, Law, Crane, and Berge looked at the results of individual, marital, and family …

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