Using Ethnographic Interview as a Training Technique. Using Therapeutic Letters as a Training Technique. Paper presented at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD, November. Back to Top Research Interests Research interests currently are centered around the areas of marital quality and prediction, with an emphasis on marriage enrichment, marriage preparation, the development of preventive models of care for couples over the life cycle, and in the area of marriage an family therapy processes and outcomes. This study combines both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and is designed to evaluate the decision making process of electing covenant marriage vs. conventional marriage license options from the perspective of the couple, the clerks of court where the license is issued and clergy performing the wedding ceremony.
Current projects focus on marital adjustment and marriage enrichment processes and outcomes.
Another study that is currently being initiated focuses on the impacts of participating in marriage enrichment programs. Comparative studies are being planned that will evaluate premarital and early marriage intervention and enrichment programs. Other studies in progress focuses on the development bicameral couples therapy model, marital conflict styles and conflict outcomes for high quality and low quality relationships, marital stability theory,using therapeutic letters as an adjunct to marriage and family therapy, and the use of therapeutic letters in training family therapists, and the use of pretherapy letters from therapists to clients with family therapy clients.