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Psychology Professor James C\u00f3rdova envisions that, one day, couples\u2019 \u201crelationship checkups\u201d with mental health professionals will be as easy to schedule as dental appointments. That could have significant effects on individuals\u2019 mental health, he adds. Even just one or two brief sessions of relationship counseling have been proven to decrease individual depression and suicidal ideation, according to studies conducted by C\u00f3rdova and his co-authors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u201cIf you improve relationship health, everything else comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe thing about relationships is, a rising tide raises all boats,\u201d says C\u00f3rdova<\/a>, director of the Center for Couples and Family Research. \u201cIf you improve relationship health, everything else comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u00f3rdova\u2019s Clark-based startup company, Arammu Inc., has an almost $2 million multiyear contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to train more than 1,000 military family life counselors to apply his Relationship Checkup model to couples counseling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He created the model \u2014 originally called the Marriage Checkup and consisting of two 1-hour sessions \u2014 25 years ago. His book, \u201cThe Marriage Checkup: A Scientific Program for Sustaining and Strengthening Marital Health,\u201d has been popular with psychologists and couples alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting in the military with regular relationship health checkups and then hoping to be able to follow that path out into the civilian world,\u201d C\u00f3rdova explains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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