PREPARE-ENRICH
CUSTOMIZED VERSION
is the latest form of the PREPAREENRICH resources. This on-line system
has been available in Australia since midSeptember, 2009.
The program is designed to assist a variety
of professionals (mainly counsellors,
educators and religious celebrants) working
with premarital or married couples.
This inventory has been carefully
constructed to be comprehensive,
diagnostically valuable and is designed to
facilitate a meaningful dialogue between
the Facilitator and the couple. It has been
scientifically developed to have high levels
of reliability, validity and clinical utility.
Standardized norms have been developed
for the inventory.
As well as providing important
demographic and background information
for a couple, 22 areas are assessed and
individual and couple responses in these
areas are summarized in reports made
available to the Facilitator:
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Social
•
Change
A. Significant Issues for Couples (10
scales):
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Organized
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Pleasing
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Emotionally Steady
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Communication
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Conflict Resolution
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Partner Style & Habits
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Financial Management
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Leisure Activities
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Affection & Sexuality
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Family and Friends
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Idealistic Distortion
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Relationship Roles
•
Spiritual Beliefs
B. Relationship Dynamics (4 scales):
Couples also answer questions about
STRESS and, depending on their
circumstances answer questions about
cultural/ethnic issues, interfaith/interchurch
issues, parenting issues, cohabitation issues,
forgiveness issues, commitment issues and
issues arising from a previous marriage.
This process is aided by the Facilitator and
Couple Reports provided on-line to the
Facilitator. Couples also receive a a
Couples Workbook that contains over 20
exercises designed to help a couple to
respond to the feedback dialogue being
facilitated by the Facilitator.
There are six core couple exercises to
complement the larger feedback process:
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Assertiveness
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Self Confidence
1. Sharing and Growth areas
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Avoidance
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Partner Dominance
2. Creating a Wish List using
Assertiveness and Active Listening
C. Couple and Family Map (4 scales):
3. Ten Steps for Resolving Conflict
•
Closeness and Flexibility of Family-ofOrigin
4. Couple and Family Map - Mapping
the Relationship
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Closeness and Flexibility of Couple
Relationship/Marriage
5. Personal Stress profile - Identifying
the most critical issues
D. Personality (4 scales)
6. Personality Exercise
The program has these goals:
1. To explore Relationship Strengths and
Growth Areas
2. To learn Assertiveness and Active
Listening Skills
3. To learn how to resolve conflict
4. To help the couple discuss their
Family-of-Origin
5. To help the couple cope better with
stressors
6. To focus on personal, couple and
family goals
The Prepare-Enrich Customized Version
inventory was developed in the
United States by:
DAVID H. OLSON Ph.D
Emeritus Professor, Family
Social Science, University of
Minnesota; Licensed
Consulting Psychologist and
Licensed Marital & Family
Therapist, State of Minnesota.
Founder and CEO of Life
Innovations, USA.
PETER J. LARSON Ph.D
President of Life Innovations,
USA., Licensed Clinical
Psychologist.
Work was done on applying the
Customized Version resources to
the Australian context by Dr.
Alan Craddock (Honorary
Senior Lecturer in the School of
Psychology, University of
Sydney) who sought feedback
and advice from many
Australian marriage educators
and counsellors.
Prepare-Enrich has provided a
service in Australia since 1979.
Version 2000 was launched in
Australia in 1997. The
Customized Version is the most
recent revision of the inventories
(2009). Over 8,500
administrators have been trained
in Australia and almost 50,000
couples have participated in the
program throughout Australia in
the last six years.
A nation-wide team of Trainers
continues to provide training and
ongoing skills development for
persons desirous of working with
the Prepare-Enrich program in
Australia. Apart from USA and
Australia, there are international
offices in New Zealand, Canada,
United Kingdom, Germany,
Japan, Korea, Hong Kong,
Taiwan , Singapore, Sweden and
South Africa.
Who may train to administer the inventories?
Persons working with couples (eg.
marriage celebrants, educators,
counsellors) who already have formal
training as a •
Pastor/priest/minister/rabbi.
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Counsellor/Psychologist
•
Educator
•
Social Worker
•
Worker trained in another
relevant human resource
discipline
and –
•
Lay people, who also have
training in the above areas,
nominated by, approved by, and
supervised by and accountable
to leaders of the institution (eg.
clergy, pastors, priests) within
which they will work. We are
prepared to train such
individuals and couples but
they need to be selected and
nominated with care. Just
because they are church
members and have participated
in a Prepare program as part of
their own preparation for
marriage is not a sufficient
qualification. It is important to
consider their knowledge and
skills.
The Marriage and Relationship
Educators Association of Australia
has developed a Users’ Guide for
Relationship Educators. One
section of this guide is tailor-made
for Educators who work with
inventories such as the PrepareEnrich range of resources. Below is
a summary list of the main areas of
knowledge and competency detailed
in the Users’ Guide. These are listed
below so that clergy may reflect on
them and aim to look for these
competencies when selecting and
nominating lay couples and
individuals for training as PrepareEnrich Administrators.
o
o
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legal obligations relating to violence
and child protection
o
means of making appropriate
referrals
o
organization standards and
procedures
o
self and the impact of personal
experiences, biases, values and
beliefs
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the limitations and boundaries of the
educator role
The ability to...
o
To work effectively with inventories
one needs to have:
deal with conflict and inappropriate
behaviour and attitudes
o
utilize a range of interpersonal skills
Knowledge of...
o
work in a non-judgemental,
empathetic and culturally sensitive
manner .
the content areas relevant to all
topics and categories in the
inventory
teaching resources and strategies
appropriate to individual styles and
characteristics of adult learners in
the context of using inventories
o
couple dynamics (e.g.. conflict
processes)
o
the nature of domestic violence
o
the key indicators, nature and impact
of personal issues (e.g.. alcoholism)
o
maintain confidentiality
o
empower and support clients who
are experiencing difficulties
o
show sensitivity to and work with a
wide range of cultural groups and
people with special needs
o
communicate and relate to
a wide range of people at
various stages of family
and life cycle development
and from a variety of
social and cultural
contexts
o
manage time and resources
effectively and efficiently
to meet the needs of the
clients and the
goals/outcomes related to
the use of the inventory
reflect and make appropriate
changes to the approach in
order to meet the needs of
clients and the
goals/outcomes related to the
use of the inventory
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Paul Cameron
(02) 9484-0206
0438604489
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