Special Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, 2010
Issue Editor: Francesca Adler-Baeder, PhD, CFLE
Special Issue Rate: US$30

This special issue of the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy comes at a crucial time in the development of relationship and marriage education (RME) programs. Recently, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have been exploring whether the benefits of relationship and marriage education will extend to populations more diverse in social address: age, ethnicity, income level, family structure, and work context.
This special issue provides a collection of studies of emerging evidence from the extended and expanded outreach of RME to more diverse, lower-income populations. Articles present state-of-the-science information on RME programs that will be useful to practitioners, scholars, and policymakers in their current and planned work.

FEATURED ARTICLES:

What Adolescents Bring to and Learn from Relationship Education Classes: Does Social Address Matter?, Jennifer Kerpelman, Joe Pittman, Francesca Adler-Baeder, Kate Stringer, Suna Eryigit, Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely, and Marinda Harrell-Levy

Demographic Predictors of Relationship and Marriage Education Participants' Pre- and Post-Program Relational and Individual Functioning, Francesca Adler-Baeder, Angela Bradford, Emily Skuban, Mallory Lucier-Greer, Scott Ketring, and Thomas Smith

Relationship Education with Both Married and Unmarried Stepcouples: An Exploratory Study, Brian J. Higginbotham and Linda Skogrand

Decreasing Divorce in Army Couples: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial Using PREP for Strong Bonds, Scott Stanley, Elizabeth S. Allen, Howard J. Markman, Galena K. Rhoades, and Donnella L. Prentice

Relationship Education for Unmarried Couples with Children: Parental Responses to the Building Strong Families Project, M. Robin Dion and Alan M. Hershey

Does Couple Education for Lower- Income Couples Work? A Meta-Analytic Study of Emerging Research, Alan Hawkins and Tamara Fackrell