Hope-Focused and Forgiveness-Based Group Interventions to Promote Marital Enrichment

The authors report a clinical trial (N = 43 couples) that compares a hope‐focused marital enrichment (E. L. Worthington et al., 1997) with empathy‐centered forgiveness‐based marital enrichment (M. E. McCullough, 1997; E. L. Worthington, 1998a) and a wait‐list control. Treatment group couples improve...

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Published in:Journal of counseling and development 2002-09, Vol.80 (4), p.452-463
Main Authors: Ripley, Jennifer S., Worthington Jr, Everett L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Care and treatment
Clinical trials
Communication
Conflict resolution
Consultants
Control Groups
Counseling Effectiveness
Counseling Techniques
Couples
Divorce
Emotions
Empathy
Enrichment
Enrichment Activities
Forgiveness
Group Counseling
Group counselling
Hope
Interpersonal Communication
Intervention
Intimacy
Marital quality
Marital Satisfaction
Marriage
Marriage Counseling
Medical personnel
Mental health
Personal relationships
Psychoeducational Methods
Psychological aspects
Reconciliation
Skills
Substance abuse
Substance abuse treatment
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Summary:The authors report a clinical trial (N = 43 couples) that compares a hope‐focused marital enrichment (E. L. Worthington et al., 1997) with empathy‐centered forgiveness‐based marital enrichment (M. E. McCullough, 1997; E. L. Worthington, 1998a) and a wait‐list control. Treatment group couples improved relative to the wait‐list control group in observational measures of communication. Hope‐focused marital enrichment produced clinically relevant changes in marital communication, increasing the ratio by 3 to 5 positive to negative interaction ratio units. Hope‐focused marital enrichment is discussed in comparison with previous research, which was conducted with couples meeting conjointly. The forgiveness‐based marital enrichment psychoeducational group is one of the 1st studies of forgiveness interventions in couples research.
ISSN:0748-9633
1556-6676
DOI:10.1002/j.1556-6678.2002.tb00212.x