ABSTRACT
Gender equality facilitates reciprocal receiving and giving support or engaging in common dyadic coping, and it is expected that men and women solve their problems mutually. Based on findings of stress and coping, Bodenmann developed the Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET), an evidence-based and widely evaluated relationship education program. In the coping-oriented couple therapy (COCT), one core element is the strengthening of couples' coping by means of the three-phase method. In international comparisons, Swiss couples are among the oldest couples when they first get married, as well as when having their first child. The systemic-transactional model (STM) does not only aim to define what kinds of stressors couples experience, and how this stress spills over and affects the relationship but also under which conditions they engage in coping when extra-dyadic stress spills over into the dyad. A corresponding characteristic of Switzerland's individualistic society is a deep respect for privacy and personal discretion.
