One Plus One eBulletin June 2009

One Plus One e-bulletin, No 29, July 2009

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Contents:

	News from One Plus One
	Research and policy news
	About One Plus One

News from One Plus One

One Plus One's service for couples and parents, thecoupleconnection.net, will be celebrating it's first year anniversary later this month. To mark the occasion we will be launching the first newsletter from the website.

The newsletter will have updates from the site along with details of new content, functionality and quizzes and competitions. If you could like to receive the newsletter from thecoupleconnection.net register for the site now!

A new book entitled What works in Relationship Education: Lessons from academics and service deliverers in the United States and Europe edited by Harry Benson and Samantha Callan, features a chapter written by Director of One Plus One, Penny Mansfield. The chapter considers early intervention and helping couples to manage relationship issues when they first arise. More information can be be found at http://www.relationshipeducation.info/ where you can also download Penny's chapter.

Penny was also featured in an article in The Sunday Times. Jenni Russell writes, in an article entitled Romance is the last thing a healthy marriage needs, about the impact of relationship breakdown on health and wellbeing. To read the article click here. In the Autumn One Plus One will be publishing an extensive review of the evidence on the impact of relationship breakdown on adults and children. More details of this will be available on our website shortly.

Research and policy news

We regularly monitor and select information from Government departments, research centres, publishers, and relationship and family organisations. Below you will find a listing of news from the last month. Each headline provides a link to the original news release. A regularly updated news board can be found in iCOR - the online Information Centre on Relationships.

Policy and Practice


	Government calls for family intervention to prevent youth crime
	Extra support for parents who lose their jobs in the recession
	CSJ publishes review of family law
	DCSF launches revised Family Man project
	Family mediation trial in West Midlands
	Further Education colleges to get help to improve health and wellbeing
	Forced Marriage Unit issues new guidance on forced marriage
	DCSF publishes schools White Paper

Research and Statistics


	DWP publishes literature review on children's and families experiences of poverty
	Report from Parentlineplus: Both parents matter
	Impact of childbering on body image studied
	Relate publishes new report on the impact of couple counselling

Journal Articles


	Who marries and when? Age at first marriage in the United States: 2002 NCHS Data Brief, Number 19 pp1-8. To view the abstract click here.
	Everything but the ring. More couples are deciding to live together and raise a family. Why bother getting married? by Davis, LS. Time, Volume 173, Number 20 pp57-8.
	Marital trajectories and mortality among US adults by Dupre, ME., Beck, AN. & Meadows, SO. Americal Journal of Epidemiology, [online first]. To view the tables of contents click here.
	Prediction of response to treatment in a randomized clinical trial of couple therapy: a two-year follow-up by Baucom, DR., Atkins, DC., Simpson, LE. & Christensen, A. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Volume 77, Number 1 pp160-73. To view the tables of contents click here.
	The role of stress on close relationships and marital satisfaction by Randall, AK. & Bodenmann, G. Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 29, Number 2 pp105-15. To view the tables of contents click here.
	Estimating the cohabiting population by Wilson, B. Volume 136 pp21-7. To view Population Trends click here.

About One Plus One

One Plus One is a team of researchers, practitioners and information specialists whose aim is to enhance understanding of how family relationships contribute to the well being of adults and children through three key activities:


	*inquiring* - monitoring and evaluating knowledge about relationships and effective support in order to develop key messages for policy and practice;
	*informing* - creating imaginative formats for key messages tailored to different audiences, and raising awareness of the impact of couple relationships on the well being of individuals, families and communities;
	innovating - developing innovative ways of getting specialist knowledge and skills about adult family relationships and early intervention to everyone working in the frontline with families, thereby adding value to existing practice.