The Marriage Checkup: Increasing Access to Marital Health Care

The marriage checkup: increasing access to marital health care.

Despite the ongoing prevalence of marital distress, very few couples seek therapy. Researchers and clinicians have increasingly been calling for innovative interventions that can reach a larger number of untreated couples. Based on a motivational marital health model, the Marriage Checkup (MC) was designed to attract couples who are unlikely to seek traditional tertiary therapy. The objective o...

The Marriage Checkup : A Public Health Approach to Marital Well - Being

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The Marriage Checkup 1 Running Head: THE MARRIAGE CHECKUP The Marriage Checkup: An Indicated Preventive Intervention for Treatment-Avoidant Couples At-Risk for Marital Deterioration

Prior to dissolution, it is likely that couples that become severely distressed first pass through an at-risk stage in which they experience early symptoms of marital deterioration but have not yet suffered irreversible damage to their marriage. It is during this “at-risk” stage when couples might benefit most from early intervention. In response to this need we have developed an indicated inte...

Checkup: Health Care Reform

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...