In secondary
education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and
formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which
shows little interest in
education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.
EFT has been
shown to work well with couples who have low incomes, couples with
little formal education, and couples where the husband is rated by the wife as «inexpressive» — three groups that do not do well in other forms of couples therapy.