integrative behavioral couples therapy

a form of behavioral couples therapy that specifically focuses on helping partners to develop acceptance and greater emotional understanding of one another and to integrate that understanding with an effort to identify, address, and change problematic patterns in their relationship that bother them both. The therapy also helps couples to explore how experiences in their respective pasts may inform their relationship in the present. Compare cognitive behavioral couples therapy. [developed in the 1990s by U.S psychologists Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson (1949–1999)]

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February 1st 2025

A fiber

a myelinated nerve fiber (axon) of the somatosensory system. A fibers are subdivided by diameter, ranging from largest to smallest: A-alpha fibers are 13 to 20 μm in diameter and transmit information from proprioceptors of skeletal muscles, A-beta fibers are 6 to 12 μm and transmit information from mechanoreceptors of the skin, and A-delta fibers are 1 to 5 μm and transmit temperature and sharp pain information. See also B fiber; C fiber.