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The authors describe a short‐term workshop designed to assist young dual career couples in developing effective personal and couple‐based lifestyle coping strategies.

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The past decade has witnessed significant changes in American society. The traditional family with a husband-father who is the provider and a wifemother who maintains the home and cares for the children is no longer the norm. The form of the family, along with the roles and expectations of its members, is changing. Increasingly during the past 10 years women, including women with children, are working or looking for work outside the home. Today more than half of all married women with children under 18 are in the labor force (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1980). Changes in patterns of labor force participation have been accompanied by dramatic changes in family structure. Families are smaller now than in the past. A rapidly rising divorce rate has spurred a marked increase in the number and proportion of families with only one, in most cases female, parent. Simultaneously, there has been a sharp decline in the fertility rate and in the average number of children born per woman. Taken together, these changes in work and family roles affect virtually all of our current social, cultural, and economic arrangements. More important, they have emphatically altered both the beliefs and values about work and family roles that undergird the life role choices of our younger generation.