Freedman Carolyn M, Low Sabina M, Markman Howard J, Stanley Scott M
University of Denver, Department of Psychology, 2155 S. Race St., Denver, CO 80208, USA.
Int J Emerg Ment Health. 2002 Winter;4(1):49-55.
The current article focuses on the application of crisis intervention principles to primary prevention programs for marital distress. The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) is a universal, empirically-supported preventative intervention program that teaches couples skills that decrease relationship risk factors and increase protective factors. These skills, mainly conflict resolution and communication skills, serve to protect relationships from the negative impact of both normative transitional crises (e.g., marriage) and other non-predictive crises. PREP emphasizes the development and maintenance of intimacy, commitment, and friendship in the relationship, which not only protects couples from the negative ramifications of crisis events, but may also decrease the chance of such crises happening in the first place. Research has shown that PREP significantly decreases multiple indicators of marital distress as much as four years after participation in the program in both clinical and community settings. PREP has also been shown to increase marital satisfaction.
本文聚焦于危机干预原则在婚姻困扰初级预防项目中的应用。预防与关系增进项目（PREP）是一项普遍适用的、有实证依据的预防性干预项目，它教授夫妻一些技能，这些技能可降低关系风险因素并增加保护因素。这些技能主要是冲突解决和沟通技巧，有助于保护关系免受规范性过渡危机（如婚姻）和其他不可预测危机的负面影响。PREP强调在关系中发展和维持亲密、承诺和友谊，这不仅能保护夫妻免受危机事件的负面影响，还可能从一开始就降低此类危机发生的可能性。研究表明，在临床和社区环境中，参与该项目四年后，PREP能显著降低婚姻困扰的多项指标。PREP还被证明能提高婚姻满意度。
