TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Norman H. TI - Marriage and family enrichment resource manual PY - 1979/// CY - 8000 E. Girard, Suite 601, Denver, Colorado 80231 PB - Christian Marriage Enrichment, KW - Families KW - Marriage counseling KW - Group relations training N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Contents: Section one A report on the American family -- Fatherhood in the 70s -- Parents: builders of self esteem -- Sex education and the local church -- Team teaching sexual adjustment in the Christian community -- Ministry to married couples within the local church -- Organizations for marriage enrichment -- A biblical view of the marital roles: seeking a balance -- Television and family life -- Preventive training for creative family relationships. Some experimental programs in North America - pre-marital and neo-marital programs -- Marriage enrichment programs -- Parenthood enrichment -- Family enrichment -- Are working women really more satisfied? evidence from several national surveys -- Baby's birth as a catalyst for family change -- The church and premarital counseling - a research study and an opinion -- New tool for premarital preparation- prepare, pre-marital personal and relationship evaluation -- Marriage preparation -- Premarital experience - a resource for group preparation -- New methods for premarital counseling -- Creative marriage- a review -- Plan of life -- Premarital counseling resources- marriage expectation inventory -- When did you leave your wife? -- Organizations worth noting -- Training laymen to counsel and help others -- Using lay counselors -- Marital adjustment and satisfaction -- Marriage enrichment weekends -- Differences in marriage- the potential for growth and enhancement -- Helping couples prevent divorce -- How can the church help prevent divorce? -- A ministry to divorcees -- Re-entry: discovering a new beginning- life after divorce -- Letter to couple on the brink of divorce -- Ministry to the divorced person -- A ministry to the divorced person- programs and books -- Second marriage: the promise and the challenge -- Patterns of adjustment for widowed and divorced persons -- The second time around: remarriage in America -- Tape resources and divorce -- Articles -- Attitudes toward divorce- a curriculum resource -- A model for living -- Postpartum depression or the 'four day blues' -- An analysis of the dating system -- Section two The effect of emotions and feelings upon marriage -- Emotions and feelings -- Differences between love and sex -- Anger -- Significant quotes on anger from significant books -- Three of the words for anger in the Greek new testament -- Our choice of dealing with anger -- What to do with anger -- Anger and conflict resolution -- Anger articles -- Is marriage for you? -- Facts about marriage and singleness -- Marriage enrichment resources- values clarification strategies for couples' enrichment -- Marriage enrichment for wives -- Abstract -- Enriching research on marital enrichment programs -- A couple's overnight retreat -- Marriage enrichment- selected curriculum outlines including togetherness, conflict, money, in-laws, dialog -- Marital communication initiation exercise -- Future curriculum resources -- Family enrichment resources -- A marriage needs three types of love: eros- philia - agape -- Communication: key to marriage- class covenant -- Values in marriage- a curriculum outline -- Curriculum resources- improving communication -- Enriching the marriages of healthy couples -- Group procedures for increasing positive feedback between married partners -- Marriage enrichment curriculum resources- ten commandments for wives -- Marriage enrichment curriculum resources- excuses in marriage -- Parenting curriculum resources- model of manhood -- Am I parent material? -- Family weekend -- New resources- empowering families -- Family finances -- Financial priorities inventory -- Family role trading at the dinner table -- A poem on communication barriers -- Parenting curriculum resources -- Know your God -- Section three Book reviews -- About handicapped and exceptional people -- Materials to help widows -- Books by and about singles -- Books on parenting -- Resources for family living -- Resources on emotions and daily problems -- Resources on marriage, men and women -- Sexuality resources -- Books on sexuality -- Books in communication -- Counseling resources -- Self image books -- Curriculum resources for classes -- Two recent curriculums on emotions -- General resources -- Newsletter for dads -- Marriage: the magazine of marital enrichment -- Money management resources -- Seminary ministries programs -- Section four Significant article reviews -- Tests and evaluation tools reviewed -- Index to "the bible in counseling" -- Game reviews -- Film reviews -- Tape reviews ER -