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SUMMARY
One hundred fifty premarital subjects evaluated the acceptability of alternative therapeutic formats commonly employed in relationship therapy. Unmarried individuals who were currently involved in premarital relationships were randomly assigned to experimental conditions including two types of educational information (descriptive and group-oriented) presented across three treatment formats (i.e., individual, conjoint, and group). The Treatment Evaluation Inventory and the Semantic Differential served as primary dependent variables. Results revealed that conjoint format was most acceptable followed by group and individual, respectively. However, subjects who had been involved in a relationship longer than one year rated the group and conjoint formats as equal in acceptability. Additionally, group-oriented information increased subjects' ratings of group formal.