“Couple Counselling, However, Has Its Own Unique Challenges. Usually, the Counsellor Must Deal with Sharing the Same Gender Socialization as Only One Member of the Couple. Sometimes Counselling Concentrated on the

The purpose of this paper is to examine the field of marriage and family counseling beginning with the history and development of the profession and its importance in the field of counseling. This paper will also evaluate five major themes relevant to Marriage and Family Therapy which include: ethical dilemmas in marriage and family counseling, premarital counseling qualifications of marriage and family therapists including licensure and certification. The biblical insight related to marriage and family therapy will also be

When a counselor has a validation issue they should seek there supervisor advice. When intimate questions are discussed with inexperience persons it drives your interest. When a man give a woman compliment at each gathering she feels special and want to hear more and do more. So as a counselor to client getting involve with intimate sexual conversation must be a limit to discussing. The discussion should be in a written form when the counselor feels their hormone is becoming elevated. The client may feel the same; the counselor is in control of the session leave the room as they write. Once the counselor return to the session and regrouped, redirect the client with healthy talk not sexual talk. The counselor once boundaries and limits are set encourages the client to write a personal dairy of their personal intimacy thoughts to share with their love one in the future.

Doherty asserts that what most couples are not aware of is that you can practice marriage therapy without any experience, training or coursework. This is because any counseling license will allow a person to counsel couples, whether they have experience or not. He also states that couples therapy was the only form of therapy to receive low ratings by a survey done in 1996 by Consumer Report. With all of that said, it is not surprising why there are so many couples out there who have experienced “bad couple therapy”. Therefore it is imperative that John and Susan know how to avoid being caught up in this dilemma.

For example, if a client were to tell a clinical psychologist about something the client’s husband did that she felt was done in a demeaning manner, the clinical psychologist would probably try to analyze things from both perspectives. If has a sexual relationship with the woman, however, he would probably tell her that her husband does not treat her right unlike him. A possible contributor for why women enter relationships with their clinical psychologist is that they are treating to be the social clock, “age-related expectations for major life events such as occupational entry, marriage, parenthood, and retirement” (Kuther, 2017). As Kuther (2017) states, “the crisis of early adulthood is the major psychosocial task of intimacy versus isolation: developing the capacity for intimacy and making a permanent commitment to a romantic partner.” Some people are so afraid to be single that they will date any person they meet. Some people are not afraid to be single, but they face pressure from their nosy relatives about their social lives and set for lower than their

The person that a professional focuses their aid and attention to is the primary client. A primary client is defined as “ a person who is fully aware that they are entering a fiduciary relationship with a professional. A primary client can go search for help on their own (voluntary), or be referred to one (involuntary) and should always be aware unless they are in an unconscious state or mentally unstable” (Shelby, 2016, Determining the Primary Client 's and Fiduciary Relationships). Most of the time a primary client involves one person that is being helped by the professional, but in this dilemma it is Arturo and Marisol. Arturo and Marisol are considered the primary client because they went in search of marriage counseling together as a couple. When having a couple as the primary client, the professional must address the couple as a single client and help solve their marriage issue as a whole rather than separate individuals (Shelby, 2016, Determining the Primary Client). If Carmen were to consider both of them as her primary clients, she would have a conflict of interest. In this case, she made the mistake of allowing an individual session with Arturo rather than keeping it as a couple session. As it is stated in The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), “Social workers’ primary responsibility is to promote the wellbeing of clients” (2014). Carmen must come up with a solution to help promote the wellbeing of the couple 's marriage, but also Marisol’s health in

After completing reading the materials for this week, I have decided that my personal method of intervention to couple’s therapy is the model of Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy or mostly known as CBCT. Such model of intervention assists distressed couples to function adequately by teaching couples how to improve their communication utilizing techniques or ideas increasing their satisfaction level. Besides, CBCT has been researched and supported by a systemic family therapy (D’Aniello, 2013). In other words, in an intervention, the therapist uses techniques to help the couple to build commitment to prevent distress and increase satisfaction.

The first video allowed me to identify different factors that should be taken into consideration when counseling women. For example, and based on the first case, I believe counselors should be aware of their own biases and beliefs. In this case, we see how the counselor is involuntarily imposing his own beliefs as he mentioned the possibility of attending graduate school as one of the causes for the client’s marriage dissatisfaction. This can affect the therapeutic interaction, as well as the development of an accurate diagnosis and intervention.

Everyone has that one individual in their life that they go to for emotional support. Especially, in marriages or relationships, we seek that one special individual to give advice on what to do and how to do it. If a friend or co-worker confides in you about a marital crisis, understand your role as a ‘first responder’; resist the urge to diagnose or overanalyze (Bernstein). But, who’s to say that their advice will always be good advice? First responders tend to get in the middle of relationships, ruin their own friendship, and give unwanted advice all by just trying to help.

The central focus of feminist counselling is gender, therapists must understand and be sensitive to how psychological oppression and socialization influence identity development.

“Counseling can be viewed as a vehicle to help people deal with relational problems and it helps them view things in a different light. Counseling provides individuals a sense of hope and support for the changes that will improve their life situation. Through counseling, clients learn about their issues from a professional’s perspective. Counseling teaches people how to have healthy relationships, by maintaining and nourishing relationships, as well as individual problem solving.”(Peaceful Hearts, n.d.) People seek counseling for everyday problems as such as stress from home, stress in the marriage, financial hardships and family issues.

Counselling is the assistant given to the married couples and the intending couples in order for them to have marital stability. These enabling the couple to enjoy marital satisfaction in their married life. Hence, marital will enable the couple to raise their own family and upbringing their own children in love and in unity. The marriage counsellors and therapist can utilize marriage counselling technique in helping the couples to resolve their marital conflicts

When people are truly invested in their marriage and are determined to make their marriage work they will be more than willing to bring in a professional. It isn’t always easy to see one’s faults nor is it easy to invite an outsider into your relationship and disclose intimate things about yourself and your spouse. Couples ought to be willing to sit down with a counselor when they feel they exhausted all avenues. In order to maintain a marriage and find solutions to better the marriage takes skills. Everyone isn’t equipped with relationship skills.

Through premarital counselling, couples are encouraged to discuss a wide range of important and intimate topics related to marriage, such as:

Helper needs to focus on helping the couple understand how gender relates to their stresses

We have another psychologist who is trained in Marital Therapy and that’s what she really prefers to do. So we try to send all the ‘couple counselling’ straight through to her. I like to deal with ummm children and with teenagers. So I will deal with those but at the same time we do a variety of things depending on the people who come through at the same time.