Does Marital Therapy Do Any Lasting Good?*

This paper presents a five year follow‐up investigation of former marital therapy clients and aims at answering the two questions: “Does Marital Therapy do any lasting good?” and if it does, “Which kinds of marital therapy do the most lasting good?” Conjoint and non‐conjoint forms of marital therapy were compared to divorce rates and whether or not a poor, moderate or good outcome resulted. The findings generally indicated conjoint forms of marital therapy were superior to non‐conjoint forms.