Premarital counseling: Appraisal and status
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Family Therapy
- Vol. 9 (3) , 13-30
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01926188108250407
Abstract
Premarital counseling programs have been proliferating in the United States since their appearance in the 1930s. In order to evaluate the success such programs have had in preparing couples to build successful marriages, reduce the incidence of divorce and prevent unsuccessful marriages from occurring, the authors reviewed those programs which outlined standardized intervention procedures and utilized dependent measures to assess the program's effectiveness. Thirteen programs met these criteria. In general, premarital counseling programs were found to be atheoretical in their approach to intervention, loosely designed and nonspecific as to their goals.Keywords
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