Relationship Risk Assessment
The cost of the average wedding is £15,000; the cost of a divorce is nearly double at £28,000. In 2003, there were 180,000 first marriages and 126,000 second marriages; in the same year there were 155,000 divorces. Of course the very real and sometimes dramatic emotional effects of a relationship break down often overshadow any financial implications.
Research by phsycologists and other professionals has indicated a number of factors that can have a negatively affect on the chances of a couple enjoying a successful marriage or long term relationship:
At a small British clinic in Spain they have spent four years developing a service which incorporates a range of quite detailed psychological profiling questionnaires and techniques, designed to provide a highly accurate independent process of screening and assessment regarding a couple’s likely compatibility in a relationship, in both the short and long term.
The system provides ‘profiling’
So how does it work in practice? Each of the couple first completes a detailed questionnaire, following which they visit the clinic to individually undertake profiling sessions, each normally lasts a little over two hours. During the session more questions are asked, some obvious, some covert. Techniques such as the use of ‘cluster questions, question threads and loop questions” are incorporated to ensure that only reliable and truthful data is gathered.
The relevant information from the initial questionnaires is then combined with the data gathered during the profiling sessions, the collective information is then placed in a format capable of being ‘digitally overlaid’ on that of each partner, using a method that highlights differences, areas of conflict or focuses attention on aspects where future change requirements are likely to exist. Finally a written report is prepared and either mailed to the couple or presented to them at the clinic if they wish to re visit, either way they each have a chance to question the facilitator in person regarding the findings.
Pre marriage questionnaires, designed to assess a couples likely hood of long term ‘relationship bliss’ have existed for many years. This system however, differs by providing couples with a personal and professional clinical assessment incorporating various techniques designed to ensure that the results are of real practical value with an acceptable level of accuracy, all results of course being facilitator assessed. It is believed that this new couple profiling method will have the ability to dramatically reduce the chance of a relationship breaking down due to existing or future incompatibility issues.
The Elite clinic in Spain has provided relationship counselling for a number of years, helping clients from around the world. Now in addition to providing Relationship Risk Assessment for couples prepaired to travel to Spain, Elite will be exclusively undertaking the training of RRA counsellors/
