INTRODUCTION Chronic Renal insufficiency (CRI) and dialysis treatment lead to a succession of situations for kidney chronic patient, which compromises his aspect, not only physically, and psychologically, with personal, family and social repercussions. OBJECTIVE (1) to verify the existence of differences of dyadic adjustment (DA) according to renal replacement treatment (RRT) and (2) verify t...

Several theories of intimate relationship satisfaction have been proposed to explain which relationship processes truly provide for a happy relationship. The literature suggests three main variables as central to relationship satisfaction: interpersonal communication, sexual communication, and communication affect. Each factor has been shown to relate to relationship satisfaction, but they have...

Family-level interactions became over last years one of the main focus of developmental and clinical research in developmental psychology and psychopathology. Since the demonstration of the emergence of triadic competences at the child’s 12 weeks of life, the role of triadic interactions in family functioning have been observed from different theoretical and methodological approaches, usually f...

The transition to parenthood is widely considered a period of increased vulnerability often accompanied by stress. Abidin conceived parenting stress as referring to specific difficulties in adjusting to the parenting role. Most studies of psychological distress arising from the demands of parenting have investigated the impact of stress on the development of dysfunctional parent-child relations...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to establish the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Personal Adjustment and Role Skills Scale (PARS-III) for assessing psychosocial adjustment in males with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHODS The parents of 287 male patients with DMD aged 5-18 years completed the PARS-III and Revised Rutter Scale. RESULTS The alpha coeffic...

Fals-Stewart, Birchler, and O'Farrell (1996) found that married or cohabiting substance-abusing men (n = 40) who participated in behavioral couples therapy (BCT) in addition to individual-based treatment (IBT) for substance abuse had fewer days of substance use and, along with their partners, reported higher levels of dyadic adjustment during and 1-year after treatment than husbands who receive...