Brief Encounters: The Video Resource For Health Professionals (2007)

Designed as a half day workshop for midwifery and health visiting teams. More...

My Mum And Dad Argue A Lot (2006)

One Plus One's evidence based resources, My Mum And Dad Argue A Lot, are aimed at practitioners working with parents and families to provide support and guidance when confronted with difficult issues and conflict. More...

PictureKits for Parents (2002)

These picture resources have been specially designed for those working with families and have been developed during various research and development projects carried out by One Plus One. More...

Primary Care For Couples: Briefing notes for encounters with families (2001)

A series of briefing notes for practitioners working with families. More...

Not in front of the children? (2001)

This book summarises more than 200 research findings relating to conflict in families and how it affects children. More...

FamilyWise (2001)

A user friendly series of health promotion packs. More...

Research-Based Guidance To Professionals Involved With The Effects Of Family Breakdown On Children (1999)

A report of a study on how primary care workers and other professionals such as teachers and solicitors could be helped to make the best use of research on the effects of family breakdown on children. More...

Marital Breakdown and the Health of the Nation (1995)

A review of a wide range of epidemiological research from Great Britain, the United States and Europe, illustrating the effect of marital breakdown on the health of both adults and children. More...

The Relationship Revolution (1992)

This publication examines European couples: cohabiting, marrying and breaking up. More...

Evaluation of the Hackney Lifeskills Project (2008)

An independent evaluation of fpa’s Life Skills course for young people, and training for Youth Workers. More...

Relationships and caring for a disabled child: Information for families (2008)

An information guide for parents who have a disabled child. More...

Transforming Frontline Practice (2008)

Find out about how you and your team can increase effectiveness when supporting families by watching our introductory video. More...

Growing together, or drifting apart? Children with disabilities and their parents' relationship (2007)

Growing Together, or Drifting Apart? draws on extensive available evidence to review the impact of having a child with a disability on the couple relationship More...

Relationships Today (2007)

Evolving series containing a distillation of research findings in topical information sheets. Topics include: Sexual Infidelity; Marital Quality and Parenting; Changing Marriage; Predictors of Relationship Quality; Cohabitation; and The Transition to Parenthood. More...

Informing unmarried parents about their legal rights at birth registration (2007)

This project sought to find out what unmarried parents know about their legal rights and examined the impact of providing legal information on knowledge and behaviour. Full report (pdf, 587k)

Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (2006)

The proceedings of the Edith Dominian Memorial Lecture 2006 are now available as a publication from One Plus One. Download (pdf, 2.5mb)

How helping works: Towards a shared model of process (2006)

A joint publication with Parentline Plus and The Centre for Parent and Child Support and One Plus One. Download (pdf, 202k)

The impact of breast cancer on couple satisfaction and quality of life: A review of the literature (2005)

A literature review focusing on influences on the quality and stability of relationships and how couples can be supported. Full report (pdf, 467k); Executive summary (pdf, 184k)

Telephone helpline support for individuals with couple relationship problems (2004)

Examining the use of helplines by individuals who are experiencing relationship problems and to use that information to develop ways of improving the nature and quality of support for couples. Full report (pdf, 406k); Executive summary (pdf, 131k)

Biographical determinants of marital quality (2004)

Used a large longitudinal dataset to examine how key predictors of relationship stability affect relationship quality. Full report (pdf, 502k)

Provision of training and resource materials to support community family workers in responding to couple relationship difficulties (2003)

The implementation and evaluation of a pilot training course for Home-Start family group workers. Full report (pdf, 275k)

Better partners, better parents, better health: A good practice guide for primary care (2002)

Aimed to develop a package of training and resources to support health professionals in their work with couples experiencing relationship difficulties. Full report (pdf, 305k)

Identifying and Managing Patients' Relationship Problems in Primary Care (2001)

This study explored the attitudes and experiences of health professionals and counselling services towards managing clients with relationship problems and examined when and how clients are referred for counselling. Download: Full report (pdf, 676k); Exec Summary (pdf, 64k)

Parents Together (2000)

A guide to help parents get together for support and encouragement. Published by the NFPI with One Plus One and the BBC. Download (pdf, 1.2mb)

Commitment - Who Cares? (1999)

Proceedings of the 1999 Conference. More...

High divorce rates: The state of the evidence on reasons and remedies (1999)

One Plus One has completed the most comprehensive review ever undertaken of research evidence from the UK and overseas on the causes of relationship breakdown and the effectiveness of remedies that aim to prevent it. All 7 papers are free to download. More...

Evaluation of The Brief Encounters Training Course (1998)

Independent evaluation of One Plus One's Brief Encounters training, conducted by Professor R Corney, University of Greenwich. Full report (pdf, 3.2mb); Executive summary (pdf, 254k)

The Chaos of Love (1997)

Executive summary of the One Plus One Conference 1997. Download (pdf, 113k)

The beginning Of the rest of your life? A portrait of newly-wed marriage (1988)

Relates the findings from an intensive study of the first five years of marriage amongst a group of young couples. More...

Marriages in trouble: The process of seeking help (1982)

Explores the experiences of couples who have sought help for marital problems. More...

Who divorces? (1979)

Presents the findings from a large-scale survey to discover some of the social and psychological factors associated with divorce. More...