Marriage mentoring is a couple-to-couple relationship that seeks to help couples live out their vision for marriage. For couples who are intent on building a happy marriage, mentoring brings sage advice, personal support and encouragement, and help in hard times.
Marriage Mentoring: a supportive, non-judgemental and sincere resource for premarital and newlywed couples
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Marriage Mentoring: a resource of support, encouragement, and accountability for premarital and newlywed couples
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22 December 2016 | 0 Comments
Does Parental Divorce Hinder Marrying Couples?
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15 December 2016 | 0 Comments
Couple Assessment: a financial and emotional investment
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08 December 2016 | 0 Comments
Encourage development of new skills: good listening skills and constructive ways of handling conflict can change a relationship
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01 December 2016 | 0 Comments
In 2002 Michelle Simons and Robyn Parker wrote an article in which relationship education services in Australia were reviewed (Relationship education services. Family Matters, 2002, 63, 77-79). They wrote:
"The use of inventories differs from structured programs largely in scale, and while at least two thirds of inventory users indicate that skills training is incorporated into sessions with couples, it would appear that the amount of skills training is rather limited in the majority of cases. This, along with issues relating to follow up and evaluation of inventory-based service activities, is an issue worthy of further attention."
15 years later, the challenges contained in this statement are just as timely.
There are three worthwhile challenges to PREPARE/ENRICH facilitators worth noting: