This guide details the use of a two-session assessment and feedback marital health check to help all couples in long-term relationships recognize their strengths and issues, for prevention and early detection and intervention. It explains what a marriage checkup is, its rationale, and basic structure; the basics of working with couples in brief interventions; adapting therapeutic assessment, motivational interviewing, and integrative couple therapy to a marriage checkup; the goals of motivational feedback to promote couples' relational health; the procedures for conducting a session; writing the feedback report and conducting the feedback session; addressing common areas of concern and presenting couples' strengths, with discussion of how specific issues are addressed and framed within existing research, how they are described in the feedback report, and options presented to couples for addressing issues; and findings and future directions for marriage checkup research. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)