Understanding the Mystery of Cohabitation / No Dating, No Relationship / JCRT finally available - 6/11/09

[Smartmarriages]

- *SLIDING VS DECIDING*: UNDERSTANDING A MYSTERY
- NPR: HOOKING UP: NO DATING, NO RELATIONSHIP
- SPECIAL ISSUE OF COUPLE AND RELATIONSHIP JOURNAL NOW AVAILABLE

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- *SLIDING VS DECIDING*: UNDERSTANDING A MYSTERY

Incredible article in NCFR's Report (summer 2009) that will whet your
appetite for the Scott Stanley/Galena Rhoades keynote that will examine the
latest research on cohabitation and give us research-based strategies for
working with the next marrying generation.

Here's the article:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/uploaded/COHAB.NCFR.Stanley.pdf


If you are registered for the conference, you are registered for this
keynote *Living With Cohabitation* Thurs morning, 8:30am.  See you in the
Gatlin Ballroom! - diane

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- NPR: HOOKING UP: NO DATING, NO RELATIONSHIP

Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships
by Brenda Wilson
NPR's Morning Edition
June 8, 2009 
http://tinyurl.com/nknny2

Nothing new, but worth listening to this sobering reminder and overview and
to hear how this message is being presented to the public.

I'll also link it from our Waiting to Marry page - all kinds of tools for
helping twenty-somethings take back their relationships.
http://www.smartmarriages.com/avoid.jerk.vanepp.keynote.html

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- SPECIAL ISSUE OF COUPLE AND RELATIONSHIP JOURNAL NOW AVAILABLE

Lots of interesting articles and note that Smart Marriages Conference
attendees will be eligible for a discounted subscription rate to this new
journal.  You'll find subscription information in your on-site packets.
-diane 

The special Best-Practices Innovations issue (April-June 2009) of The
Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy: Innovations in Clinical and
Educational Interventions on the latest research, theory and practice of
couple and relationship education is now available.

Authors and subjects include:
    
Duncan, Steed, and Needham on Web-Based Versus Traditional Marriage Ed:
Which works best?

Hawkins on Best-Practices in Couple Ed

Rhoades, Stanley and Markman on Working with Cohabitors in Relationship
Education and Therapy

Skogrand, Barrios-Bell, and Higginbotham on Stepfamily Ed with Latinos

Halford and Wilson on Flexible-Delivery Couple Education:  What are the
long-term effects?

Olson, Larson and Olson-Sigg on Couple Checkups
    
Whiting, Bradford, Vail, Carlton, and Bathje on Domestic Violence in
Marriage Education

    PLUS:  Books and Materials reviews

To see this special issue go to:  www.tandf.co.uk/journals/WCRT

Jeffry H. Larson, Ph.D., Editor, JCRT
Jeffry_larson at byu.edu