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Assessment

2004-2022. Insights International, Inc. https://www.ministryinsights.com/ 

Personality Differences and Communication

Bohns, V.K., et al. (2013). Opposites fit: Regulatory focus complementarity and relationship well-being. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2013.31.1.1 

6 Levels of Conversation

Smalley, G. (2000). Secrets to Lasting Love. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Space of Trust

Campbell, & Stanton, S. C. (2019). Adult attachment and trust in romantic relationships. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.08.004 

Gottman, J. (2011, October 29). John Gottman on trust and betrayal. The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/john_gottman_on_trust_and_betrayal   

Simpson. (2007). Psychological Foundations of Trust. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00517.x 

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn

Frothingham, M.B. (2021, Oct 06). Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn: What This Response Means. Simply Psychology. www.simplypsychology.org/fight-flight-freeze-fawn.html 

Ohman, A. & Mineka, S. (2001). Fears, phobias, and preparedness: Toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning. https://doi.org/10.1037//0033-295X.108.3.483 

Filters

Ellis, A. (1991). The revised ABC’s of rational-emotive therapy (RET). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061227 

Visla, A., et al. (2016). Irrational Beliefs and Psychological Distress: A Meta-Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1159/000441231 

Soflau, R., & David, D. O. (2019). The impact of irrational beliefs on paranoid thoughts. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465818000565  

David, D., et al. (2010). Rational and Irrational Beliefs: Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice. Oxford University Press, USA.

Cognitive distortions in an acutely traumatized sample: an investigation of predictive power and neural correlates. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291711000237 

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Psych Central. Retrieved from https://psychcentral.com/lib/rational-emotive-behavior-therapy/ 

Mindful STOP

Goldstein, E. (2018, October 11). The S.T.O.P. practice for stress. Mindful. https://www.mindful.org/the-s-t-o-p-practice-for-stress/ 

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