Pre-Marital Preparation and Relationship Enhancement Programs
Marriage preparation programs aim to increase readiness for married life, reduce distress and divorce risks. Participants are equipped with skills, tools, and knowledge to enhance their relationships, interpersonal skills, and behavior. Pre-marital education focuses on prevention, helping couples maintain high levels of functioning and prevent marital distress and divorce by providing awareness, understanding, and resources.
- Marriage preparation
- Relationship enhancement
- Pre-marital education
- Preventing divorce
- Interpersonal skills
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Areas of family life education Pre-marital preparation
Conceptual Understanding Marriage preparation programs are offered to adolescent, young adult, and remarrying partners to increase readiness for predictable tasks of married life and reduce their likelihood of distress and divorce. Couples are assisted by a trained and knowledgeable professionals to understand experience thus far to a new dynamic relationship marriage. and apply their life s They are further equipped with skills and tools to better assist them in the other areas of their lives.
Cntd. For relationship enhancement; training workshops, self-help materials, marital therapy, and/or support services are offered to individuals, dating couples, cohabitants, and married couples to improve knowledge of relational issues, interpersonal skills, personal insight, behaviour change
Definition Markman and Hahlweg (1993) stated that the prevention perspective has the goal of starting with happy couples (even though they may be at risk for future distress) and helping them maintain their relatively high levels of functioning
Cntd.. Premarital education is defined as a knowledge and skills-based training procedure which aims at providing couples with information on ways to improve their relationship once they are married (Senediak, 1990)
Cntd.. Premarital education programs are based in a prevention perspective that has the goal of starting with happy couples (even though they may be at risk for future distress) and helping them maintain their relatively high levels of functioning
Cntd.. The two major goals of premarital preparation programs is to prevent marital distress and divorce Programs are geared at providing couples with an awareness and understanding of potential problems, as well as providing couples with information and resources to effectively prevent such problems
Cntd.. Pre-marriage education encourages the couple to think objectively and wisely about getting married. It also empowers them to cancel getting married if they discover that it will be unwise.
Cntd Prevention of distress, including dating or domestic violence and conflict, and prevention of divorce by altering malleable risk factors 1) 2) Competence-building, by enhancing self- and other-awareness, knowledge of couple issues, interactive skills, and access to resources and (3) Intervention, including individual or couple therapy as appropriate, to resolve conflict, promote healing, teach skills for growth, or to deter partners from entering a high-risk marriage.
Mechanism of premarital preparation There are three main groups that provide most premarital education: (1) Clergy, (2) Professional counsellors or therapists, and (3) Physicians.
Cntd.. Clergy: Clergy provide the greatest amount of formal premarital education, as part of optional or mandatory marriage preparation programs before church weddings Professional counsellors or therapists do some premarital education, often for those who have been divorced and are preparing to marry again Physicians: They do some premarital education as well, but that is usually limited to one meeting where they give contraceptive and sexual information
The Stages of Pre The Stages of Pre- -Marriage Preparation Marriage Preparation Informal Stage: This is the time when children best learn from the modelling of parental attitudes and behaviours and from their own experimentation 1) The parental modelling stage (from birth to pre- teens) or the formation years 2) The personal exploration stage (teens to young adulthood) or the experimental years. The Formal Stage: This is the time when structured, formal training and education of life s issues and marriage itself take place.
Topics including: communication, conflict resolution, roles in marriage, commitment, financial management, sexuality, parenting expectations, and partners families of origin
Topics to be covered in pre-marital preparation Roles in marriage. Sexuality. Finances. In-laws. Health and family planning Values and goals. Communication. Creative problem solving. Love and feelings. Issues of power and control. Starting a home. The wedding. After the wedding.
