The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: Early Impacts on Low-Income Families

Hsueh, JoAnn; Alderson, Desiree Principe; Lundquist, Erika; Michalopoulos, Charles; Gubits, Daniel; Fein, D.; Knox, Virginia

doi:10.1037/e565352012-001

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“…There was little site variation. Some subgroups showed effects; for example, Hispanic couples and individuals experiencing higher marital distress at baseline had larger positive impacts (65). …”

Section: Results: Policy Overviews and Health Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Social and Economic Policies Influence Health? A Review

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Although social and economic policies are not considered part of health services infrastructure, such policies may influence health and disease by altering social determinants of health (SDH). We review social and economic policies in the US that have measured health outcomes among adults in four domains of SDH including housing and neighborhood, employment, family strengthening/marriage, and income supplementation. The majority of these policies target low-income populations. These social policies rarely consider health as their initial mission or outcomes. When measuring health, the programs document mental health and physical health benefits more than half the time, although some effects fade with time. We also find considerable segregation of program eligibility by gender and family composition. Policy makers should design future social policies to evaluate health outcomes using validated health measures; to target women more broadly across the socioeconomic spectrum; and to consider family caregiving responsibilities as ignoring them can have unintended health effects.

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Section: Results: Policy Overviews and Health Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Social and Economic Policies Influence Health? A Review

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“…While outward skills and behaviors may be helpful to someone who is more ethically responsive and exhibits more of an I–Thou way of being, without an inward change and compassionate view of the Other, practitioners may be encouraging less responsive individuals and couples with more of an I–It way of being to simply wage a war with more tools in their possession (Rogge, Cobb, Lawrence, Johnson, & Bradbury, ). It is for this reason, in part, that we believe that some program evaluations have found that relationship and marriage education (RME) programs are less effective than hoped (e.g., Hsueh et al, ; Wood, McConnell, Moore, Clarkwest, & Hsueh, ). Such results may further illustrate why some have concluded that “whether tested in carefully controlled outcome trials or in large demonstration projects, preventive interventions derived from social learning theory are underperforming relative to expectations and lacking clear evidence of efficacy” (Johnson & Bradbury, , p. 16).…”

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Strong Relationality and Ethical Responsiveness: A Framework and Conceptual Model for Family Science

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2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Family scholars and practitioners rely on theories of relationships to guide our understanding and promotion of healthy intimate relationships; however, assumptions about the self are often implicit and unquestioned. This article describes a strongly relational view of the self that can transform family science by accounting for partners' ethical responsiveness and dialogical way of being (I–It vs. I–Thou), concepts long understood in philosophy but largely neglected in family science. We emphasize the importance of ethical responsiveness and way of being as fundamental to both understanding and improving intimate relationships and propose a framework and conceptual model to guide both research and practice. We integrate empirical evidence with the work of Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas to provide an understanding of factors that may lead to meaningful and flourishing relationships. We discuss implications for empirical research and practice to advance family science.

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“…Bradbury and Lavner (2012) argued that the effect of existing forms of RE on relationship satisfaction were variable across studies, with a mixture of null and small (possibly trivial) effects. The overall null findings of the recent large, multi-site Building Strong Families (BSF) study (Wood, McConnell, Moore, Clarkwest, & Hsueh, 2012), and the very small effects observed in the large multi-site Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) study (Hsueh et al, 2012) might seem to support the view of Bradbury and Lavner. However, both BSF and SHM involved extensive contact hours for couples, and there was a lot of attrition from the programs.…”

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