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A Student Couples Program.
John E. Hinkle,Marvin Moore +1 more
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In this article, the authors describe a relationship enrichment workshop they have developed and conducted for married and engaged college students, and the goal of the workshop is to teach participants some concepts and exercises for improving their mnutual communication.Abstract:
In this paper the authors describe a relationship enrichment workshop they have developed and conducted for married and engaged college students. The workshop is for healthy couples and not primarily rehabilitative in nature. Rather the goal of the workshop is to teach participants some concepts and exercises for improving their mnutual communication, including expression of affection and constructive fighting. It is the authors' hope that this paper will encourage more preventive mental health programs for married adults and those contemplating matrimony.read more
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Premarital Prevention Programs: A Meta-Analytic Review of Outcome Research
TL;DR: It is suggested that premarital prevention programs are generally effective in producing immediate and short-term gains in interpersonal skills and overall relationship quality and that these improvements are significantly better than nonintervention couples in these areas.
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Marriage preparation programs: A literature review.
TL;DR: In the past two decades, the need for high-quality marriage preparation programs and better program evaluation has become more evident as discussed by the authors, and a review tracks developments in programming, theory, and e...
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Premarital counseling: Appraisal and status
Dennis A. Bagarozzi,Paul Rauen +1 more
TL;DR: In general, premarital counseling programs were found to be atheoretical in their approach to intervention, loosely designed and nonspecific as to their goals.
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Trends in Premarital Counseling
Walter R. Schumm,Wallace Denton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the need for better training of premarital counselors and for more systematic evaluation of the impact of pre-marital counseling strategies in the field of counseling.
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Recent progress in understanding and facilitating marital communication
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the new concepts which have emerged-such as awareness, self-disclosure, esteem-building, and symmetry in husband-wife input-and stress that training in communication is not a panacea.
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The Intimate Enemy: How to Fight Fair in Love and Marriage
George Robert Bach,Peter Wyden +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the soft file of the book "How to fight fair in love and marriage" can be downloaded and the book can be found on-line in this site.