cognitive behavioral couples therapy

behavioral couples therapy that specifically focuses on the reciprocal influence of the partners’ idiosyncratic patterns of ideas about each other and about couples in general. Interfering ideas are made conscious and explicit and are then altered to improve the couple’s relationship using techniques modified from cognitive behavior therapy. Compare integrative behavioral couples therapy.

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March 17th 2025

z -score transformation

a statistical procedure used to convert raw data into z scores, dimensionless quantities that may be interpreted without reference to the original units of measurement. It is performed by subtracting the reference value (the sample average) from each data point and dividing the difference by the standard deviation of the sample.