Marriage counseling is a type of psychotherapy that aims to help married or established couples resolve relationship problems. It typically involves both partners attending counseling sessions together to discuss issues. Common reasons for seeking marriage counseling include communication problems, conflicts over child rearing or blended families, financial difficulties, infidelity, and sexual issues. The main goals of marriage counseling are to help couples learn to communicate constructively, effectively disagree, uncover larger underlying issues, change bad habits and patterns, and build or rebuild trust.

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3. Definition of Marriage Counseling
 Marriage counseling is a type of psychotherapy for a married
couple or established partners that tries to resolve problems
in the relationship. Typically , two people attend counseling
sessions together to discuss specific issues.
 Usually provided by licensed therapist known as marriage and
family therapist.
 Often short term.
 Includes both partners , but sometimes one partner chooses
to work with a therapist alone.

4. Why Marriage Counseling is done?
To help couples in all
types of intimate
relationships.
To strengthen their
bonds and gain
better understanding
of each other.
To help couples who
plan to get married.

5. Specific Issue Of
Marriage Counseling
Communication
Problems
Conflict of child
rearing or blended
family
Sexual
Difficulties
Financial
Problem
Infidelity

6. Marriage
Succesful
Type
Validating
Volatile
Avoidant
Unsuccesful
Type
Hostile
Engaged
Hostile
Detached

7. Types of Marriage Counselling
1.Couple
Counselling
2. Family
Therapy
3. Religion
Based
Counselling
4.Marriage-
Friendly
Therapy
5.Tailored
Programs

8. 1) Couples Counselling
 is a form of therapy that looks to
improve communication and
resolve issues within an intimate
relationship between husband
and wife
 preferable that both be involved
from the beginning of the
process

9. 2) Family Therapy
 Family therapy might look at ways
that individuals in a family take
on or are assigned roles in
everyday life, how those roles
make them feel, and how to
move the roles around if
members of the family are
unhappy with their places

10. 3) Religion-Bases Counselling
Seeks for help or advise from religion
expertise in their problems

11. 4) Marriage-Friendly Counselling
• marriage therapists are actually
trained initially in the individual
model of therapy.
• tendency to put the happiness of
individuals above the happiness of
the couple or family as a unit
• important question to ask before
we choose our counsellor.

12. 5) Tailored Program
• If the family have problem that went over a
long time,
• It is suggested for the family to find a
counsellor that offer a longer duration of
counselling session

13. Goals of Marriage Counseling
3.Uncover Larger
Issue
• 4. Changing
Bad Habits
And Patterns
2.Effectively
Disagree
• 5. Bulding Or
Rebuilding
Trust
1.Learn To
Communicate

14. Learn to Communicate in
constructive manner
Learn to voice out opinions while
respecting other persons has to say
Help couple deal with problems
that appear too big to overcome

15. Counselor spot problems
and help address it in a
control environment
Counselor will give the
couple tools to start building
or rebuilding relationship