Does Therapist Guidance Enhance Assessment-Based Feedback as Couple Relationship Education?

Autor:	Thomas B. Holman, W. Kim Halford, Jeffry H. Larson, Raylene Chen, Dean M. Busby, Keithia Lynne Wilson
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Relationship satisfaction Clinical Psychology Fully automated Relationship education business.industry Psychological distress Experimental and Cognitive Psychology The Internet business Psychology Social psychology Consumer satisfaction Developmental psychology
Zdroj:	Behaviour Change. 29:199-212
ISSN:	2049-7768 0813-4839
DOI:	10.1017/bec.2012.20
Popis:	Assessment and feedback of relationship strengths and challenges is a widely used brief approach to couple relationship education (CRE). It can be fully automated through the internet, with couples self-interpreting the feedback. This study assessed whether therapist guidance of couples to interpret the report and develop relationship goals enhanced the benefits of the feedback. Thirty-nine couples seeking CRE were randomly assigned to either self-interpretation of an internet-based relationship assessment report (RELATE), or therapist-guided interpretation of the same report (RELATE+). Participants were assessed on relationship satisfaction and psychological distress pre- and post-CRE, and at 6-month follow-up. RELATE and RELATE+ were not reliably different in outcome. Couples in both conditions sustained high relationship satisfaction and showed an overall decline in psychological distress. However, consumer satisfaction was substantially higher for the RELATE+ condition than the RELATE condition.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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