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Barriers to the Development of Marital Health as a Health Field *
Author(s) -
Vincent Clark E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1977.tb00464.x
Subject(s) - dyad , marital therapy , field (mathematics) , terminology , psychology , public relations , social psychology , political science , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The development of Marital Health as a bona fide health field is posited as the most viable means for obtaining funding for training, research and treatment concerning the marital dyad equal to such funding now available for other health fields. Obstacles to this development include (1) the failure to differentiate between the concepts of “healthy marriages” and “marital health as a health field,” (2) the erroneous assumption that marital health already exists as a health field, (3) the preindustrial myth of naturalism, and (4) criticisms of the health model that are based on the search for value‐free models and terminology.