Balance--a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of an online intensive self-help alcohol intervention.

Aims: To compare a brief versus a brief plus intensive self-help version of 'Balance', a fully automated online alcohol intervention, on self-reported alcohol consumption.

Design: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial. Participants in both conditions received an online single session screening procedure including personalized normative feedback.

A preliminary investigation of affective interaction in chronic pain couples.

The objective of this preliminary study was to examine the extent to which affective marital interaction related to depressive symptoms in persons with chronic pain and their spouses and to pain severity in persons with pain. Couples from the community completed self-report surveys and engaged in a videotaped conversation on a topic of mutual disagreement that was coded for three affect types (i.e.