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Chapter 9 Marriage and Relationship Education Flashcards

1
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“Marriage is the first bond of society” was said by who?

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Marcus Tullius CICERO

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Recent scholarly summaries have detailed the various ____ , _____ , ______ , and _____ benefits of happy marriage to the couple themselves, to the children raised within these unions, and to the broader society

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social
physical
sexual
economic

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general US population still have between what percent of ending marriage?

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40 - 50%

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what is the answer to increase the chance of happy and stable unions?

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Marriage and relationship education (MRE) which is a subspecialty of FLE

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Marriage and Relationship Education is what?

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any preventative effort to help couples gain knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to establish and maintain a healthy couple relationship

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marriage educators work preventatively - they work “____”

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upstream
to help couples anticipate and avoid serious disruption through the learning and practice of marital virtues, science supported principles, and skills

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earliest forms of MRE can be traced back to what year?

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1930’s

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in the 1930’s MRE started as a premarital education program established where?

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merrill-palmer institute

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early premarital counseling was established where?

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Philadelphia marriage council which included a strong educational emphasis

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____ played a key role in premarital educational efforts through premarital counseling

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churches

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Berger and Hannah provide what?

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preventative approaches in couples therapy

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cognitive behavioral perspective

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found in 8 of 13 approaches

assumes that couples can be taught, in an educational setting, ways of thinking (attitudes and expectations) and behaving (communication and conflict management) that enhance their chances for successful marriage

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3 emphasis of marital process research

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marital disruption and understanding the processes that lead to MARITAL BREAKDOWN
- focuses on communication process, how conflict is managed and addresses problems

INTERPERSONAL characteristics of spouses and positive interpersonal processes for establishing and maintaining a strong, healthy marriage
- marital virtues or spousal strengths such as positivity, friendship, and generosity, fondness, admiration, affection and respect, humility, compassion, positivity

attention to elements some scholars call “TRANSFORMATIVE processes in marriage” which include forgiveness, commitment, sacrifice, and sanctification

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Sound marital house theory

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has deep marital friendship as foundation

includes:

friendship elements

  • love maps
  • fondness and admiration
  • positivity
  • turning to each other

regulation of conflict

creating share meaning
- meshing individual and family life dreams together

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Marital Virtues perspective

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the best way to a good marriage is to be a good person

friendship, loyalty, generosity, and justice

skills operate in value centered culture. you listen well because you are patient and generous

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transformative processes

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self regulation of commitment, forgiveness, sacrifice, sanctification and commitment

repair when mistakes are made

constraint commitment and personal dedication

17
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constraint commitment

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comprises costs and forces that keep marriage together, even if a couple would rather break up

18
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personal dedication

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an intentional decision and desire to stay in a marriage for mutual benefit

involves sacrificing for it, investing in it, linking personal goals and considering partner’s welfare

place a great priority on relationship, feel greater satisfaction with giving, and are less likely to seek greener marital pastures

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Gottman’s 7 principles for making a marriage work

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  1. enhance your love maps - show you care, love language learn about spouse
  2. nurture fondness and admiration - respecting each other
  3. turn toward each other instead of away - bids for connection (a look, a gesture), wanting connecting

– these make up the basis for good sex, romance, and passion

  1. let your partner influence you
  2. solve solvable problems / let unsolvable problems go
  3. overcome gridlock - dreams within your conflict; make marriage safe enough to reveal dreams
  4. create shared meaning.- rituals and share them
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comprehensive framework for marriage education (CoFraME)

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to offer a framework to help marriage educators think more thoroughly, systematically, broadly, and creatively about intervention opportunities

content - what is taught in MRE

intensity - how intense is MRE high to low

methods - how MRE is taught and learned

timing - when MRE is taught

setting - where MRE is taught

target - who is taught in MRE

delivery - who teaches MRE

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National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model (NERMEM)

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focuses on the content of MRE

will help educators design, deliver and evaluate programs that support healthy couple and marital relationships

choose
- the central importance of intentionality –> decide to make relationship a priority

know

  • the development of intimate knowledge of partner
  • –> develop what you know and what you believe about partner

care
- demonstrating kindness, affection, understanding, respect and caring support

care for self
- maintaining physical, psychological and sexual health and wellness as individual

share
- developing and maintaining friendship and sense of “we” ; spending meaningful time together

manage
- strategies of engagement and interaction around differences, stresses, and issues of safety

connect
- engaging social support, community ties and sources of meaning

22
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traditional MRE programs

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typically fairly intensive, face to face, multisession educational interventions,

most often taking place in community or church settings

31-37% of couples participate in premarital education

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self directed MRE approach

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education interventions initiated and participated in independently by the couple at home, with little or no external professional intervention

flexible delivery where participants access material at a time and place that suits them

examples - books, magazines, internet articles, dads, etc

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empirically supported treatment (EST) had how many programs?

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13

25
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how many programs were designated as efficacious EST?

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4

26
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programs met the EST designation if they…

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supported by 2 or more published outcome studies by separate research teams

included control or comparison groups and random assignment

27
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couple communication program (CCP)

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focus is to teach practical communication skills

emphasize collaborative marriage

recognize the difference between effect and ineffective ways of talking and listening

increase self awareness and develop listening skills

taught process for mapping issues

5-6 sessions with instructor for a total of 8 hours

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relationship enhancement (RE)

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based on the assumption that problems are inevitable and the most effective way to resolve relationship problems and enhance quality is to teach skills for constructively solving problems that meet the needs of everyone involved

2 day weekend for multisession (15 hours total)

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prevention and relationship enhancement program (PREP)

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focuses on training couples in communication, conflict resolution and problem solving skills

goal is to build protective factors through these skills and reduce relationship risk factors

full day workshop plus 2 hour weeknight sessions (12 hours Total)

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CoupleCARE

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focus is to help couples recognize and define strengths and vulnerabilities in their relationships and to develop personal and couple goals that will strengthen the relationship

emphasis on self change and the recognition that relationship enhancement is a matter of partners taking responsibility for changing their own behavior

self directed

6 sessions (6 hours total)

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effectiveness of MRE

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recent meta-analyses show that MRE produced moderate effect sizes for both relationship quality and communication skills

most of these programs are traditional, workshop setting

promising evidence of effectiveness is emerging for non-traditional, self directed, flexible deliver approaches to ME, some even rivaling traditional approaches

extension service programs show promise but limited evaluation data

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7 best practices of MRE

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grounded in theory and research

evidence based

tailors program development and implementation to audience

encourages involvement of higher risk couples

offered at change points

promotes early presentation of relationship problems

works to enhance accessibility of evidence based programs

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3 steps to creating own program

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problem analysis

program design

pilot testing

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challenges and future direction

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target
- audiences increasing in risk level and diversity

timing
- continue engaged, but expand timing to high school, young adults, cohabitating, remarrying

setting
-religious settings continue and grow; special emphasis on military

content
- communication and problem solving continue; increased emphasis on virtues, tailored approaches

methods
- empty more active learning and self guided approaches

dosage
- greater variety of dosage other than modal 12 hour; vary with self guided approaches

bright prospects
- more participants in MRE than in past

real challenges
- meet with growing diversity, ambiguity of government support

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