Empowering Couples
Building on Your Strengths
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Empowering Couples is built on over 20 years of clinical experience and research with couples. The foundation is the PREPARE/ENRICH Program, which is one of the most popular couple programs used in the world. Over 45,000 counselors and clergy of all denominations have used this program with over 1,000,000 couples. This program has also been introduced into ten other countries.
The book focuses on the 10 most important areas of couple relationships including couple communication, conflict resolution, roles, finances, spiritual beliefs, sexuality, couple closeness and flexibility, parenting and couple goals.
Empowering Couples is based on a national survey of 21,501 married couples. This data was used to identify common stumbling blocks (issues) for couples. In addition, a comparison of happy and unhappy couples was done to identify the strengths of happy couples.
Each Book Chapter Contains:
~ Couple Quiz on chapter topic
~ Common stumbling blocks (problematic issues)
~ Stepping stones for building your couple strengths
~ Couple discussion exercises
Ten Chapters ... 225 Pages
- Path of the Strong
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Role Relationship
- Managing Finances
- Spiritual Beliefs
- Sexual Relationship
- Mapping Relationship
- Children & Parenting
- Couple Goals
AUTHORS of Empowering Couples:
David H. Olson, Ph.D. is Professor, Family Social Science, University of Minnesota and is President of Life Innovations. He has received many awards from national organizations (AAMFT, AFTA, ACA, ACME and Penn State University) for his research and programs for couples and families. He is a Fellow and clinical member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
He has published over 20 books and 100 journal articles on marriage and the family. His recent books include: Building Relationship: Developing Skills for Life (1999) and Marriage and Family: Diversity and Strengths (2000). He has appeared on numerous talks shows including Oprah, CBS Morning Show and NBC Today Show.
Amy K. Olson, B.A. is Research Associate at Life Innovations. She has co-authored several articles on the PREPARE/ENRICH Program. She is co-author of Building Relationships: Developing Skills for Life.
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