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A Qualitative Study of Couples Counseling Experiences and Aspects of Change in Newly Married Couples Preventative Counseling Using PREPARE/ENRICH-CV 

저자 오윤석, 조은숙

학술지명 Asian Journal of Family Therapy 

권호사항 Vol. 3 No.1 [2019], 43-61

발행연도 2019

초록

This study aims to explore couples' experiences and aspects of change in the preventive counseling for newly married couples, which includes counseling using PREPARE/ENRICH-CV(P/E) or a general one which does not use P/E. The subjects were 12 married Korean couples (duration of marriage was not more than 5 years) without children. For each couple, 4 couple sessions were carried out respectively for 90 minutes by the first author. In P/E counseling, P/E assessment reports and a workbooks were used. In general counseling, a multi-generational model, an experiential model, and the solution-focused model were combined. For the qualitative analysis, session verbatim records, evaluation forms, and two interview transcripts (after the entire counseling and 6 weeks after the closure of the counseling) were analyzed. Three categories were formed from the data: motivation for counseling, aspects of change, and counseling effectiveness. In P/E counseling, the intervention was focused on the specific problems revealed through the P/E test, so the range of the change varied and specific, whereas general counseling was based on the problems which clients complained and its intervention was mostly focused on communication, conflict resolution, and family of origin. The results of this study implied that brief preventive couple counseling, regardless of P/E usage, would be helpful in enhancing the relationship of newly-married couples who did not have significant issues. However, using instruments and workbooks in P/E gave couples different experiences and created relationship changes compared to general couple counseling. This implication may be applied to develop brief preventive counseling model for newly-married couples.