COUNSELING

Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling

Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and discuss the concepts of marriage and family counseling in holistic manner. This paper also focuses on the methods, procedures and tactics involved in marriage and family counseling to cure the family and marital issues of individuals. In addition, this paper analyzes three scenarios and strives to provide effective consulting advice through which the issues can be resolved. Marriage and family counseling is a way of solving problems in the family or couple with the help of a therapist. The couples facing family and marital issues are not limited to a particular relation; these couples can be husband and wife, parent and child, mother-in-law and son-in etc. The treatment through marriage and family counseling involves consulting sessions of therapies. There are at least 3 people involved in this session: therapist (one or two) and couple facing family and marital problems (two or more). Marriage and family counseling is responsible for solving the issues between the family members that can severely affect the harmony inside family. This therapy cures couples who want to save their marriages, improve family relationships, solve sexual problems, betrayal issues and the issues that may lead to divorce. In some of the cases marriage and family counseling involves two therapists, a man and a woman (Kellerman, 2004).

Discussion and Analysis

Marriage and family counseling has emerged as a preferred treatment approach for adolescent behavior problems. Despite positive treatment outcomes, there is still a gap between research and practice and an incomplete understanding of how to successfully disseminate evidence-based family and marital programs into every day clinical practice. Many researchers have attributed adolescent problem behaviors to a number of risk factors; therefore, treatment approaches should be broadened to include the important relational contexts and salient subsystems in which adolescents' problematic behaviors tend to develop and are expressed (Donovan, 1999).

The purpose of adapting such procedure is supported by a strong reason. This procedure is implemented in scenarios that involve opposite genders. The involvement of opposite genders is usually realized in marital and dating relationships. Nevertheless, it is not limited to those particular scenarios as the therapists involved in the procedure are involved to understand the point of views of male and female (Kellerman, 2004). The therapist involved in marriage and family counseling helps the couple to explore the ways of interaction in relationships in order to solving the issues by eliminating the communication gap. This is the decision that has first priority by the therapists because there are multiple family and marital issues that can be easily solved though proper communication (Donovan, 1999). The family and marital issues often create communication gap between the individuals comprising the couple; hence, marriage and family counseling attempts to remove the communication barriers as it is the easiest approach to resolve the particular issues.

The History and Origin of the Marital and Family Issues

Before exploring some of these dimensions of modern family history, it is useful to place family patterns in ...