ASSESSING THE 4 FUNDAMENTAL DOMAINS OF MARRIAGE

The widespread reluctance of marital practitioners to conduct standard ized assessments may be indicative of the difficulties involved in ide ntifying and selecting useful measures from the burgeoning assessment literature. To address this problem, a model of marital functioning is presented that organizes the large body of longitudinal research on m arriage. For each of the 4 components of the model-involving Marital Q uality and Stability, Adaptive Processes, Stressful Events, and Enduri ng Vulnerabilities-several potentially potentially useful self-report instruments or observational procedures are described.