Lee N Johnson
Brigham Young University, Marriage and Family Therapy, Faculty Member
Research suggests an association between partner support and eating disorder (ED) symptomology in coupled women. However, no research describes whether time is a factor when examining routine partner behaviors that contribute to ED... more
Research suggests an association between partner support and eating disorder (ED) symptomology in coupled women. However, no research describes whether time is a factor when examining routine partner behaviors that contribute to ED symptom severity. This study examined the relationship between supportive and unsupportive partner behaviors and ED symptom severity over a 3-month time period. Fifty-eight women with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) identified helpful and unhelpful partner behaviors and ranked relationship support and symptom severity for the past 3 months using an event history calendar. Regression analyses examined the relationship between symptom distress and partner-support variables over 3 months. Higher levels of helpfulness and relationship quality positively predicted partner-support levels. Partner distancing was predictive of increases in symptom distress. Emotional or physical distancing or neglect aggravates symptom severity, which highlights th...
Research Interests: Therapy and Therapeutic
This article is a review of clinical research composed by Lee N. Johnson, PhD. Dr. Johnson discusses these research articles and their relevance to the practicing clinician. The following articles are discussed: the prediction of marital... more
This article is a review of clinical research composed by Lee N. Johnson, PhD. Dr. Johnson discusses these research articles and their relevance to the practicing clinician. The following articles are discussed: the prediction of marital stability and marital happiness, an investigation in the timing of divorce, both authored by John Gottman; the third article reviews a 20 year prospective study of risk factors associated with suicide (by Brown, Beck, Steer, & Grisham); the fourth is a review of a study on the prediction of treatment duration in private practice (by Mueller & Pekarik); the fifth is a discussion of outcome effects of therapy (Shadish, Matt, Navarro, & Phillips). Dr. Johnson reviews an article that presents a self-report measure for adolescent parental attachment and its relation to adjustment (Vivona).
This study develops the Revised Inventory of Parental Attachment (R-IPA). The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA, Armsden & Greendberg, 1987), was reworded to ask parents their perspective of attachment towards their children.... more
This study develops the Revised Inventory of Parental Attachment (R-IPA). The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA, Armsden & Greendberg, 1987), was reworded to ask parents their perspective of attachment towards their children. When used together the R-IPA and the IPPA rate attachment scripts from parent and adolescent's perspectives. Results suggest the original factor structure of the IPPA does
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Research Interests: Psychology, Family Therapy, Social Work, Poverty, Juvenile Delinquency, and 20 moreTreatment Outcome, Adolescent, Interpersonal Relationship, Humans, Child, Correlation, Family Counseling, Coping, Child Abuse, Female, Therapy, Male, Regression Analysis, Socioeconomic Status, Middle Aged, Questionnaires, Adult, Home Care Services, Marital, and Psychotherapeutic Processes
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This study examines in-session changes in sentiment override over the first three sessions of couple therapy. Couples viewed a video recording of therapy sessions immediately after each of the first three sessions and continuously rated... more
This study examines in-session changes in sentiment override over the first three sessions of couple therapy. Couples viewed a video recording of therapy sessions immediately after each of the first three sessions and continuously rated their level of sentiment override. Ninety-eight changes were randomly chosen for analysis. Three talk turns prior to each change was coded using the Family Relational Communication Control Coding System. Results show that changes in sentiment override occur frequently. Repeated incidents of communication control were related to negative change in sentiment override for females. Repeated incidents of being left out of the conversation were related to negative changes in sentiment override for females and positive changes for males.
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Research Interests: Psychology, Family Therapy, Education, Social Work, Research Design, and 7 moreTeaching, Marriage, Humans, Female, Male, Training Program, and Marital
Research Interests: Psychology, Family Therapy, Social Work, Research, Humans, and 6 moreClinical research, Kansas, New York, Marital Therapy, Utah, and Marital
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Life Skills Literacy (LSL) is a multidisciplinary intervention model that helps families living with limited resources (including poverty) achieve sustainable well-being. This model, based on ecological theory and a readiness for change... more
Life Skills Literacy (LSL) is a multidisciplinary intervention model that helps families living with limited resources (including poverty) achieve sustainable well-being. This model, based on ecological theory and a readiness for change framework, prepares people to learn from the program ...
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The authors describe an approach to analyzing dyadic data that can be utilized with the smaller samples often available to researcher–practitioners working with couples in counseling. Specifically, the authors describe how to use the... more
The authors describe an approach to analyzing dyadic data that can be utilized with the smaller samples often available to researcher–practitioners working with couples in counseling. Specifically, the authors describe how to use the actor–partner interdependence model (APIM), a common dyadic data analysis tool, using a pooled regression approach that is appropriate for smaller sample sizes. An example is provided