The Group Edition of PREPARE/ENRICH is designed to bring couples of various relationship stages together in one group can lead to a dynamic experience for all. Engaged couples benefit from the realism and interpersonal learning that happens when they witness how other couples cope with life’s stressors, honor their commitment, grow, heal, and express themselves. Engaged and dating couples reenergise those around them with their hope and optimism.
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Engaged and dating couples reenergise those around them with their hope and optimism
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12 February 2015 | 0 Comments
Bringing couples of various relationship stages together in one group can lead to a dynamic experience for all
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05 February 2015 | 0 Comments
The PREPARE/ENRICH Group Program lends itself well to a retreat format as it allows for a combination of teaching, small groups, and break-out time for couples. The Group Program outlines ten sessions but you may use only the sessions that work for the time you have or items that have been raised by the group. The first session is written as an introductory session and the last as a wrap-up. All other sessions need not be delivered in consecutive order.
Descriptive Analysis of Strengths of PREPARE/ENRICH Group Program
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29 January 2015 | 0 Comments
The theoretical underpinnings of the PREPARE/ENRICH program (2008) are based on assumptions that quality marital relationships can be predicted from premarital relationship factors (Olson & Olson-Sigg, 1999). The preventive approach of this program focuses on identifying factors related to marital success, assessing couples on those factors, giving couples feedback and exercises designed to help them deal with problem areas, and to provide couples with skill-building exercises that focus on communication and conflict resolution.
Financial Stress and Premarital Couples
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22 January 2015 | 1 Comment
An Australian study has shown that there is a strong link between experience of financial hardship and personal psychological distress (Creed, P.A., & Miller, J. Psychological distress in the labour market: Shame or deprivation? Australian Journal of Psychology, 2006, 58, 31-39). One point made by the authors is that financial distress reduces a person’s capacity to plan and interferes with planning for a meaningful future. It is this that primarily reduces psychological wellbeing.
The golden rule of budgeting: Spend less than you earn and save and invest the rest
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14 January 2015 | 1 Comment
Money is a powerful word that conjures up a number of emotions, among them lust, envy, fear, anger, hope, scorn and disgust. Little wonder then, that the most common source of disagreement in families in Australia is money. According to a 2012 study (Hawkins et al) 40% claimed that the way their spouse handles money, was the reason for divorce (third to growing apart 55% and not able to talk together 53%.
Working with Conflicted and Devitalised Couples (Part 2)
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13 November 2014 | 0 Comments
Working with Conflicted and Devitalised Couples
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06 November 2014 | 0 Comments
Are our issues normal? The Value of the Feedback Process for Couples in all life stages
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23 October 2014 | 0 Comments
The PREPARE/ENRICH Inventories have been designed so facilitators can give constructive feedback to couples. The feedback process is designed to help facilitators work more effectively with couples. While we encourage facilitators to follow this process initially, you should also feel free to experiment and build upon it.
PREPARE couple types are highly predictive of separation/divorce, unhappy or happy marriage
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16 October 2014 | 2 Comments
Following on from the definition of the four types of premarital couples based on PREPARE - Vitalised, Harmonious, Conventional, and Conflicted (plus Devitalised for married couples) - it was found that the couple types are highly predictive of which couples eventually become separated/divorced, unhappily married or happily married (Fowers, Montel, and Olson, 1996).