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Marriage Encounter
Marriage encounter is a two- or three-day weekend experience designed to help married couples experience a process that may lead to change for the partners as individuals and in their marital relationships. The weekend emphasizes improvement of interpersonal communication skills within the marriage. Marriage encounter is a marriage enrichment program and is not designed to serve as a vehicle for marriage counseling for individuals with serious psychological problems. It promotes the deepening of communication and emotional intimacy in marriage and, for some, can be a mystical experience of sensing the presence of God and the sacred in one another. This entry provides a brief history of the marriage encounter movement and discusses the components of the marriage encounter weekend. It then explains the psychodynamic and ...
- Assessments
- Adult Attachment Assessments
- Assessment, Biopsychosocial
- Assessment, Suicide
- Circumplex Model
- Clinical Case Conceptualization With Couples and Families
- Clinical Interviews With Couples and Families
- Common Factors
- Custody Evaluations
- DSM and V-Codes
- Ecological Systems
- Eco-Map
- Family Assessment, Models of
- Functional Assessment and Children
- Genograms
- Interpersonal Violence
- Love Languages
- Love, Physiology of
- Love, Types of
- Marital Distress
- Marriage Education
- Nonverbal Communication
- Parent–Child Communication
- PREPARE/ENRICH
- Progress Notes for Couples and Families
- Scales, Children
- Scales, Couple and Marital
- Scales, Family
- Scaling Questions
- Sentiment Override, Positive and Negative
- Sexual Assessment/History
- Sexual Health
- Sexual History
- Suicide
- Therapeutic Assessment
- Treatment Planning With Couples and Families
- Attachment
- Adult Attachment Assessments
- Affect Regulation
- Attachment
- Attachment and Adolescents
- Attachment and Health
- Attachment and Romantic Love
- Attachment Styles
- Attachment Theory
- Attachment-Based Family Therapy
- Attunement in Relationships
- Bonding
- Child-Centered Parenting
- Earned Attachment
- Emotional Disengagement
- Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment and
- Primary and Secondary Emotions
- Psychobiology of Attachment
- Communication
- Assertiveness
- Avoidance
- Collaborative Language Systems
- Communication Disorders
- Communication Errors/Problems in Couples and Families
- Communication in Couples and Families
- Conflict in Couples and Families
- Conflict Resolution
- Conflict Styles
- Confrontation
- Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder in Children
- Empathy
- Forgiveness
- Love Languages
- Metacommunication
- Metaphors
- Nonverbal Communication
- Parent–Child Communication
- Power Issues in Couples
- Respect
- Secrets
- Social Constructionism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Therapeutic Impasses
- Trust
- Coping
- Bereavement
- Children With Chronic Illness
- Chronic Illness With Couples and Families
- Conflict Styles
- Death, Parents of Deceased Children
- Empowerment in Families
- Engendering Hope
- Families and Substance Abuse
- Family Resilience
- Family Strengths
- Family Stress
- Family Stress Adaptation Theory
- Forgiveness
- Hope-Focused Approach to Couple Enrichment in Counseling
- Parental Stress: Effects on Children
- Reconciliation
- Resilience
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Esteem in Children
- Social Support
- Stillbirth and Miscarriage
- Stress Management
- Couple, Marriage, Family Policy
- Diagnosing and Disorders
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- Adjustment Disorder in Adolescents
- Adolescent Behavior Disorders
- Adolescent Behavior Problems
- Adolescent Mental Health
- Alcohol and Substance Abuse
- Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
- Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Child Behavior Problems
- Childhood Anxiety
- Childhood Obesity, Prevention and Treatment of
- Compulsive Sexual Behavior
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression in Adolescents
- Depression in Children
- Depression in Couples and Families
- Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder in Children
- DSM and V-Codes
- Eating Disorders
- Elimination Disorders in Children
- Erectile Disorder
- Female Orgasmic Disorder
- Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
- Fetishes
- Functional Assessment and Children
- Gambling, Compulsive
- Gender Dysphoria
- Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder
- Hoarding
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder in Adolescents
- Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
- Mood Disorders in Adolescents
- Mood Disorders in Children
- Non–Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Arousal Disorders in Children
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Postpartum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
- Premature Ejaculation
- Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children
- Relational Diagnoses
- Schizophrenia and Families
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Somatic Symptom Disorder and Related Disorders in Adolescents
- Substance Use Disorders in Adolescence
- Diversity
- Acculturation
- Adoption, Cross-Cultural and Interracial
- Adoptive Families
- African American Families
- Asian American Families
- Assimilation: Immigrants and Refugees
- Beliefs and Values
- Bilingual Families
- Children With Special Needs in Family Therapy
- Chosen Families
- Cultural Issues in Couples and Families
- Diversity
- Empowerment in Families
- Ethnicity
- Faith-Based Therapy
- Families and Substance Abuse
- Family Resilience
- Family Values
- Feminization of Poverty
- Foster Children
- Gender- and Culture-Sensitive Therapies
- Gender Issues
- Gender Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
- Gender Roles
- Immigrant Families
- Individual Family Culture
- Intellectual Disability and Autism
- Intercultural Marriage and Family
- Interracial Marriages and Families
- Kinship Care
- Latino Families
- LGBT Families
- Marriage Versus Civil Unions
- Marriage, Arranged
- Men in Counseling
- Military Couples and Families
- Mother-Blaming
- Multiculturalism
- Muslim American Families
- Native American Families
- Nudity: Beliefs and Values
- Parentification and Diverse Family Systems
- Patriarchy
- Racial Disparities in Foster Care
- Racism
- Relational-Cultural Therapy
- Religion
- Resilience
- Rural Families
- Same-Sex Couples
- Sexual Minorities
- Sexual Orientation, Attraction, and Identity
- Sexual Prejudice
- Sexuality and Religion
- Single-Parent Families
- Socioeconomic Status
- Spirituality
- Stepfamilies
- Therapists’ Values
- Transgender Families
- Transracial Adoption
- Urban Families
- Women’s Project, The
- Financial Issues
- Career Planning and Couples/Families
- Debt and Financial Strain
- Dual-Earner Families
- Families and Poverty
- Family Resource Management
- Feminization of Poverty
- Gambling, Compulsive
- Hoarding
- Homelessness
- Homelessness and Youth
- Job Loss
- Life Balance
- Poverty and Family Development
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Retirement
- Socioeconomic Status
- Work Relationships
- Intimacy
- Attachment
- Attachment and Adolescents
- Attachment and Health
- Attachment and Romantic Love
- Bonding
- Cognitive Maps and Couples
- Commitment
- Compassion
- Confrontation
- Couple Development
- Couples, Quality Time
- Dating Coaching
- Dating Relationship Dissolution
- Empathy
- Fidelity
- Forgiveness
- Friendship
- In-Law Relationships
- Intimacy, Specific Threats to
- Loneliness
- Love and Rituals
- Love Languages
- Love, Physiology of
- Love, Theories of
- Love, Types of
- Marital Distress
- Marriage, Arranged
- Marriage, First and Second
- Mate Selection
- Online Dating
- Open Relationships
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
- Reconciliation
- Relationship Enhancement
- Romance
- Secrets
- Sexual Intimacy
- Sibling Relationships
- Trust
- Work Relationships
- Life Events/Transitions
- Adolescent Behavior Problems
- Adolescent Mental Health
- Adoption
- Adult Development
- Aging and Caregiving
- Autism and Children
- Bereavement Counseling
- Career Planning and Couples/Families
- Caregivers
- Child Behavior Problems
- Childhood Anxiety
- Childless Couples
- Chosen Families
- Chronic Illness With Couples and Families
- Couple Development
- Couples, Quality Time
- Dating Coaching
- Dating Relationship Dissolution
- Death and Dying
- Death, Parents of Deceased Children
- Divorce and Separation
- Divorce Therapy
- Dual-Earner Families
- Families and Poverty
- Family Life Cycle
- Family Reconstruction
- Family Stress
- Grief Counseling
- Health Issues
- Homelessness
- Homelessness and Youth
- Hospice
- Individual and Family Development
- Job Loss
- Life Balance
- Life Events
- Life Transitions
- Loss
- Marriage, First and Second
- Parent–Adolescent Relations
- Parenting
- Postpartum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
- Poverty and Family Development
- Power Issues in Couples
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Retirement
- Rural Families
- Sibling Relationships
- Single-Parent Families
- Spirituality
- Stepfamilies
- Stillbirth and Miscarriage
- Suicide
- Teen Parenting
- Transracial Adoption
- Urban Families
- Major Concepts
- Affect Regulation
- Attachment
- Attachment Styles
- Attunement in Relationships
- Attunement, Clinician
- Boundaries
- Circumplex Model
- Cohesion
- Complementary and Symmetrical Relationships
- Crucible
- Cybernetics
- Differentiation
- Ecological Systems
- Eco-Map
- Ecosystems Perspective
- Emotional Disengagement
- Entitlement
- Epistemology in Family Therapy
- Family Myth
- Family of Origin
- Family Rituals
- Family Strengths
- Family Values
- First-Order Change
- Fusion
- Gender Roles
- Hierarchy
- Holism
- Homeostasis
- Hypothesis, Systemic
- Identified Patient
- Individual Family Culture
- Intergenerational Loyalty
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Isomorphism
- Kinship Care
- Marriage Education
- Marriage Encounter
- Marriage Myths
- Morphogenesis
- Morphostasis
- Mother-Blaming
- Neutrality and Curiosity
- Nuclear Family
- Paradoxes and Paradoxical Intervention
- Patriarchy
- Person of the Therapist
- Positive and Negative Feedback
- Presenting Problems
- Primary and Secondary Emotions
- Questions: Open, Closed, and Circular
- Recursiveness
- Resistance
- Scaling Questions
- Scapegoating
- Second-Order Change
- Sentiment Override, Positive and Negative
- Social Constructionism
- Social Support
- Structural Determinism
- Structural Maps
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Systems Theory
- Triangulation
- Models, Interventions, Techniques
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Adlerian Family Therapy
- Adlerian Open-Forum Family Counseling
- Attachment-Based Family Therapy
- Behavioral Family Therapy
- Brief Adlerian Couples Therapy
- Brief Family Therapy
- Chaos Family Therapy
- Child–Parent Relationship Therapy
- Childhood Obesity, Prevention and Treatment of
- Choice Theory and Reality Therapy
- Cinematherapy
- Circularity and Linearity
- Cognitive Maps and Couples
- Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
- Collaborative Couples Therapy
- Collaborative Language Systems
- Community Programs
- Conflict Resolution
- Conjoint Family Therapy
- Constructivism
- Contextual Family Therapy
- Couple and Family Forensics
- Couples and Marriage Counseling
- Crisis Intervention With Couples and Families
- Discernment Counseling
- Divorce Therapy
- Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy
- Emotional Intelligence, Children
- Emotional Intelligence, Families
- Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
- Empirically Validated Models
- Enactments
- Equine-Assisted Family Therapy
- Ericksonian Family Therapy
- Experiential Family Therapy
- Externalizing Behaviors
- Faith-Based Therapy
- Family Mode Deactivation Therapy
- Feminist Family Therapy
- Focal Family Therapy
- Functional Family Therapy
- Gender- and Culture-Sensitive Therapies
- Gestalt Family Therapy
- Goals, Treatment
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Grief Counseling
- Group Family Therapy
- Home-Based Therapy
- Homework Assignments in Therapy
- Homicide
- Hope-Focused Approach to Couple Enrichment in Counseling
- Humanistic Family Therapy
- Hypnosis
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Individual Versus Family Therapy
- Integrating Systemic and Individual Theories
- Integrative Couples Therapy
- Internal Family Systems Model
- International Family Therapy
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment and
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Couples and
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Parenting and
- Joining
- Juvenile Firesetter Interventions
- Listening, Empathic
- Love and Rituals
- Marital Group Therapy
- Marriage Encounter
- Marriage Enrichment
- Marriage-Friendly Therapy
- Medical Family Therapy
- Metacommunication
- Metaphors
- Milan Team
- Mindfulness
- Miracle Question
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multiple Family Therapy
- Multisystemic Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Network Therapy
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- No-Harm Contracts
- Normalizing
- Paradoxes and Paradoxical Intervention
- Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
- Parent Management Training
- Peer Counseling
- Play Family Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Postmodern Therapies
- Premarital Counseling
- Progress Notes for Couples and Families
- Psychoanalytic Family Therapy
- Psychobiology of Attachment
- Psychoeducation
- Punctuation
- Questions: Open, Closed, and Circular
- Reflecting Team
- Relational-Cultural Therapy
- Relationship Enhancement
- Restoration Therapy
- Rituals in Family Therapy
- Role-Playing
- Second-Order Family Therapy
- Self-Help
- Sensate Focus
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Stages of Family Therapy
- Strategic Family Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
- Support Groups
- Systemic Family Therapy
- Systems, Subsystems, and Metasystems
- Therapeutic Alliance
- Therapeutic Contract
- Torture Treatment
- Training in Marriage Enrichment (TIME) Program
- Transgenerational Family Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Triangulation
- Virginia Satir Model
- Organizations
- Parenting
- Active Parenting
- Adoption
- Authoritative Parenting
- Child–Parent Relationship Therapy
- Child-Centered Parenting
- Children With Chronic Illness
- Foster Children
- Group Parenting Classes
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Parenting and
- Legal Issues in Parenting
- LGBT Families
- Nonresidential Fathers
- Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
- Parent Management Training
- Parent Study Groups
- Parent–Adolescent Relations
- Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Parental Stress: Effects on Children
- Parentification and Diverse Family Systems
- Parenting
- Parenting Education
- Parenting Styles
- Pregnancy
- Racial Disparities in Foster Care
- Rule-Setting
- Teen Parenting
- Professional Development and Standards
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Certified Family Life Educator
- Child Protective Services
- Clinical Practice
- Clinician-Directed, Solution-Focused Supervision
- Competency-Based Standards for Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
- Confidentiality
- Core Competencies for Marriage and Family Therapists
- Cotherapy Team
- Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
- Court-Mandated Clients
- Decision-Making
- Dual and Multiple Relationships
- Duty to Warn and Protect
- Ethical Codes
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Family Life Educators
- HIPAA Standards
- Informed Consent for Research
- Informed Consent in Clinical Work
- Licensure and Certification
- Live Supervision
- Mandated Reporter
- Mental Health, Systemic Perspective
- Moral Dimensions of Therapy
- Multicultural Counseling Competence
- No-Secrets Contracts
- Postdoctoral Training
- Practice Management
- Professional Associations
- Public Health Code
- Release of Information for Couples and Families
- Self of the Therapist
- Self-Care Practices for the Trauma-Informed Couple and Family Counselor
- Sexual Relationships With Clients
- Supervision
- Supervision Contract
- Supervision of Supervision
- Supervision Philosophy Statement
- Supervision Theories
- Supervision, Approved Supervisor in Marriage and Family Therapy
- Supervision, Developmental Model
- Supervision, Gatekeeping
- Supervision, Individual and Group
- Termination
- Therapists’ Values
- Training and Licensure
- Research
- Clinical Versus Statistical Significance
- Common Factors
- Cost–Benefit Analysis
- Couples Therapy Research
- Delphi Research Method
- Developmental Model of Marriage
- Effectiveness Research
- Empirically Validated Models
- Evidence-Based Practice With Couples and Families
- Outcome Research
- Prevention Research
- Process Research
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- Sex Researchers
- Sexuality
- Beliefs and Values
- Birth Control and Contraception
- Childless Couples
- Compulsive Sexual Behavior
- Erectile Disorder
- Extramarital Affairs and Infidelity
- Female Orgasmic Disorder
- Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
- Fetishes
- Gender Dysphoria
- Gender Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
- Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder
- Human Sexual Response
- Incest
- Infertility
- Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
- Mate Selection
- Mindfulness and Sex
- Nudity: Beliefs and Values
- Open Relationships
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
- Pornography
- Pregnancy and Sexuality
- Premature Ejaculation
- Romance
- Same-Sex Couples
- Sensate Focus
- Sex Positivity
- Sex Researchers
- Sex Therapy
- Sex, Definition of
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Assault and Rape
- Sexual Assessment/History
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Sexual Enhancement, Sexual Toys
- Sexual Health
- Sexual History
- Sexual Intimacy
- Sexual Minorities
- Sexual Orientation, Attraction, and Identity
- Sexual Prejudice
- Sexual Relationships With Clients
- Sexual Toys/Sexual Aids
- Sexuality and Religion
- Sexuality Education
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Statutory Rape
- World Association for Sexual Health
- Special Topics
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Adolescents
- Child Guidance Movement
- Children With Special Needs in Family Therapy
- Community Programs
- Family Mediation
- Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood
- Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative
- Incest
- International Family Therapy
- Marriage and Health
- Media in Family Therapy
- Men in Counseling
- Military Couples and Families
- Mindfulness and Children
- Mindfulness and Couples
- National Marriage Initiative
- Online Dating
- Schizophrenia and Families
- Schools, Family Involvement in
- Self-Care Practices for the Trauma-Informed Couple and Family Counselor
- Sexual Abuse
- Statutory Rape
- Technology and Families/Marriage
- Therapeutic Impasses
- Torture Treatment
- Theory
- Adlerian Family Therapy
- Assessment, Biopsychosocial
- Attachment Theory
- Behavioral Family Therapy
- Bowen Family Systems Theory
- Chaos Family Therapy
- Choice Theory and Reality Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
- Collaborative Language Systems
- Constructivism
- Contextual Family Therapy
- Critical Theory
- Cybernetics
- Double Bind Theory
- Ecosystems Perspective
- Epistemology in Family Therapy
- Experiential Family Therapy
- Family Stress Adaptation Theory
- Functionalism
- General Systems Theory
- Isomorphism
- Love, Theories of
- Object Relations Theory
- Parental Acceptance–Rejection Theory
- Psychoanalytic Family Therapy
- Social Constructionism
- Structural Determinism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Systems Theory
- Violence and Abuse
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