TY - JOUR
AU1 - Wright, Julia
AB -  Abstract This paper addresses the problem of why so many marriages end in divorce. It develops a preventative approach to marital breakdown by proposing pre-marital counselling as a resource to be made widely available to couples. The key psychological issues which a counsellor could use as the backbone of any such counselling or therapeutic work are outlined. It is suggested that these issues are part of the psychological ‘working-through’ period during an engagement, when the couple are preparing for marriage. The psychological difficulties that an individual may be struggling with are illustrated via an account of psychodynamic psychotherapy with a young woman during the year of her engagement. 
TI - Getting engaged: A case study and a model of the engagement period as a process of conflict-resolution
JF - Counselling Psychology Quarterly
DO - 10.1080/09515079008256710
DA - 1990-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/getting-engaged-a-case-study-and-a-model-of-the-engagement-period-as-a-Lm82ia00Hl
SP - 399
EP - 408
VL - 3
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -