What is PREPARE / ENRICH?

SoulCare recommends use of Prepare/Enrich, a customized couples assessment completed online that identifies a couple’s strength and growth areas. It is one of the most widely used programs for dating, premarital, pre-engagement and marital counseling education and enrichment. Based on a couple’s assessment results, a trained facilitator provides 4-8 feedback sessions in which the facilitator helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven relationship skills.

Over 3 Million Couples!

Over the last 40 years, the PREPARE/ENRICH relationship assessment has empowered and energized millions of couples. They are the #1 relationship inventory and couples assessment tool.

What are the major goals of the PREPARE/ENRICH Program?

There are several goals of the PREPARE/ENRICH Program. In order to achieve these goals there are exercises designed to help couples improve their relationship skills. The program helps couples:

  • Explore strength and growth areas

  • Strengthen communication skills

  • Identify and manage major stressors

  • Resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model

  • Develop a more balanced relationship

  • Explore family of origin issues

  • Discuss financial planning and budgeting

  • Establish personal, couple and family goals

  • Understand and appreciate personality differences

What relationship areas are assessed by the Inventory?

  • 12 Relationship Scales — communication, conflict resolution, roles, sexuality, finances, spiritual beliefs and more

  • 5 SCOPE Personality Scales

  • 4 Couple and Family Scales — based on the Circumplex Model

  • 4 Relationship Dynamic Scales

  • 30 Customized Scales

Is the PREPARE/ENRICH Program valid & reliable?

An important strength of the PREPARE/ENRICH Inventory is their strong psychometric properties. High levels of reliability and validity have been found for each instrument, making them valuable tools for research as well as clinical use.

  • National Norms based on over 500,000 couples

  • High Levels of Validity and Reliability

PREPARE has validity in that it discriminates premarital couples that get divorced from those that are happily married with about 80-85% accuracy. Reliability is high (alpha reliability of .80 – .85).

For more information about research with the PREPARE/ENRICH Inventory, view Research Articles.

Who uses PREPARE/ENRICH?

The inventory has been utilized by over 100,000 trained clergy members, professional counselors, mentors, and marriage educators throughout the U.S. Our counselor, Candace Thornton, is a certified Prepare/Enrich facilitator.

Millions of couples have taken a PREPARE/ENRICH inventory and worked through their results under the guidance of a trained facilitator.