What Is The Marriage Council Science?
Relationships counseling, as a science was formed at the end of 20th century. From that time numerous research and surveys was performed to answer a question – is marriage counseling can help to couples to improve their marriage?
Survey which was performed in 1995 among readers of “Consumer Reports” magazine demonstrate that most of the people discredit marriage counselors – this type of psychotherapy gain a lowest scores from all other types.
This research shows that nowadays marriage council shifts from the field of “healing” to the field of “prophylaxis”. This will cause that influence of marriage counseling on number of “happy marriages” will increase in future.
A lot of studies and surveys were performed in area of marriage counseling. Here are two the most significant of them: – “Consumer Reports” magazine in 1995 did a research of marriage counseling effectiveness. That was a reader survey and marriage counselors gain the lowest mark from all of the therapists. – AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) research shows another result – according to statistics of AAMFT number of families, which visit marriage counselors, steadily increases from year to year. For fair we must note, that survey of “Consumer Reports” was confined and it results can’t be used in scientific research.
Today, not all families visit marriage counseling when they feel some problems in relationships with spouse – some couples prefer to visit counseling to prevention of any problems or to find some new ways for relationships progress.
On basis of these studies scientists summarize some answers for the next questions: – When you need to visit marriage counseling? Better to visit marriage counseling for prophylaxis, but in some cases you need to visit psychoanalyst – when you can’t find mutual understanding with your spouse, when you feel unhappy all the time, when you frequently quarrel with husband (wife), etc. – What reasons can cause problems in marriage? Hasty marriage, low income of couple, problems of nurture, inter-faith marriage, career problems, dissatisfaction of spouses in work or in spouse, etc. – What couples can get the most from counseling? Newlyweds, sweethearts, sociable and ready for changes couples. – What couples can get the least from counseling? Couples, which already prepared to divorce, unsociable couples.
John Gottman discovered that most of happy couples handle their problems easily, because relationships in wedded pair are founded on friendship and sensibility to spouse problems. Gottman propose to change basic approach of marriage counseling – he propose to teach people to communicate between each other and trying to resolve controversy together instead of obtrusion of any “practices” or “behavior models” to wedded pair.
Good relationships between spouses – the “foundation stone” of happy marriage.
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