Taking it to the Streets (and Information Super Highways)

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Couples and Family Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 271-288

  Halford, W Kim ^a   Hayes, Samira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Approaches to couple relationship education; Barriers to couples attending CRE; Couple CARE Program; CRE, structured learning experiences helping couples; Curriculum based CRE on active training of key relationship skills; Education and intervention, in couple and family relationships; Information technology (IT), couples' access to CRE; IT based CRE, tailoring content for couples; Rates of relationship distress, couple separations, attributable to CRE; taking it to the streets (and information super highways)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886121417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444354119.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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