Creating a Mature Marriage The Camm Program/2 Cassettes and Book

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This set of materials, a spiral notebook & two audio cassette tapes, is intended to "teach couples what each of them can do to create a more mature marriage or relationship. A mature marriage, or relationship, is one in which you both learn to meet each other's needs." The author is a clinical member of AAMFT. The overall program makes use of the Locke-Wallace Short Form Marital Adjustment Test (1959) as the basis for learning experiences focused on the needs of the couple members. The working part involves an item-by-item exploration of how the test relates to the individual couple & their own uniqueness. Overall, this program has merit for individual couples who would like to enrich their marriages without seeking professional help. The marriage & family therapist might do well to draw some of the exercises & tasks from this material into therapeutic homework for clients. Too, it might be the type of program, as a whole, which could be made use of as a positive reinforcer for couples who are nearing the successful completion of treatment or as a "refresher" at a time subsequent to successful therapy.