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When Jacqueline Sparks, professor of human development and family studies, published “The Norway Couple Project: Lessons Learned” in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy in 2015, she hoped the article would bridge a longstanding divide in psychotherapy. “There’s been a cutoff between researchers and clinicians because research articles do not always translate findings in a way that resonates with clinicians,” she said. She sought to close that gap with her piece and did just that, distilling research into actionable take-home...

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