Marriage Education for Clinicians

The field of marriage education has come to be dominated by nonprofessionals with no clinical training because clinicians interested in relationships typically provide marital therapy to couples in distress rather than marriage education to healthy couples. In this paper, we encourage clinicians to...

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Published inAmerican journal of psychotherapy Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 311 - 336
Main Authors Wetzler, Scott, Frame, Laura, Litzinger, Samantha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy 05.11.2012
Subjects
Couple Therapy
Marital Therapy
Marriage Education
Supporting Healthy Marriage
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Summary:The field of marriage education has come to be dominated by nonprofessionals with no clinical training because clinicians interested in relationships typically provide marital therapy to couples in distress rather than marriage education to healthy couples. In this paper, we encourage clinicians to participate in the development of marriage education programs, such as that described by our Supporting Healthy Marriage program, which serves a large number of low-income couples, and propose a psychological conceptual framework for delivering marriage education services. It makes sense for clinicians to consider using this novel approach given the opportunity to impact such a large segment of society that might not receive psychological services.
Bibliography:0002-9564(20121105)65:4L.311;1-
ISSN:0002-9564
2575-6559