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Marriage Counseling
Relationship counseling is the
process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort
to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome
differences and repeating patterns of distress. The relationship
involved may be between members of a family or a couple (see
also family therapy), employees or employers in a workplace, or
between a professional and a client.
History of Marriage Counseling
Relationship counseling as a discrete, professional service is a
recent phenomenon. Until the late 20th century, the work of
relationship counseling was informally fulfilled by close
friends, family members, or local religious leaders.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, Counselings and social workers have
historically dealt primarily with individual psychological
problems. In many less technologically advanced cultures around
the world today, the institution of family, the village or group
elders fulfill the work of relationship counseling. Today
marriage mentoring mirrors those cultures.
With increasing modernization or westernization in many parts of
the world and the continuous shift towards isolated nuclear
families, the old support structures are no longer there and the
need for relationship counseling is greater than ever. In
western society the trend is towards trained relationship
Counselings; these are often volunteers who wish to help others,
and are trained by either the Government or social service
institutions to help those who are in need of counseling. Many
communities and government departments have their own team of
trained voluntary or professional relationship Counselings.
Similar services are operated by many universities and colleges,
often staffed by volunteers from among the student peer group.
Some large companies maintain a full-time professional
counseling staff to facilitate smoother interactions between
corporate employees, to minimize the negative effects that
personal difficulties might have on work performance.
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