title: Marriage education for clinicians.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3317 Rochambeau Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467, USA. swetzler@montefiore.org
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wetzler
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Frame
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Litzinger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019546:Couples Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004493:Education; D004644:Emotions; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008388:Marital Therapy / Q000379:methods; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000379:methods*; D011340:Problem Solving