Support Processes in Intimate Relationships

This edited book offers a broad yet coherent view of the support and relationships field, showcasing novel, state-of-the-art research and theory on support processes in intimate relationships. Cutting-edge scholarly work is compiled in one accessible volume, which is designed to provoke and guide new research on social support.

Kieran Sullivan received her PhD from UCLA in 1997 and is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Santa Clara University. She has published in the areas of prevention for relationship distress and violence, social support in marriage, couple therapy, and religiosity and marriage. Her current research focuses on support, control and health behavior in intimate relationships and on the longitudinal effects of support in newlwed marriage. Dr. Sullivan is a licensed clinial psychologist.

Joanne Davila received her PhD from UCLA in 1993 and is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University. She has published widely in the areas of adolescent and adult psychopathology and interpersonal functioning, particularly romantic relationships. She is the Director of the Relationship Development Center at Stony Brook University, where her current research focuses on how depression and anxiety can impair romantic functioning, particularly in adolescence, and on how attachment security develops and changes over time and relationships. Dr. Davila has served on the editorial boards of numerous psychology journals and as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She is a licensed clinical psychologist.