Marriage counseling – is an area of psychotherapy which covers areas of family relationships problems, problems of children upbringing and different types of disorders which can cause a divorce. Marriage counseling handles not only problems between spouses, it also related to aspects like: individual therapy (depressions, emotional disorders, alcoholism and so on), childhood behavioral disorders, severe mental illness, and some aspects of physical illness (for instance – behavioral problems with diabetics or disabled persons).

Who the marriage counselors are? Marriage counselors – it’s a licensed practitioners in area of mental health, which have at least Masters Degree. Each counselor passes at least two years of clinical practice. Licenses for marriage counselors are distributed by AAMFT (Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) – professional organization which have in it members more than 23 thousands of marriage counselor all over the world. AAMFT also developed number of standards which lie in basis of federal and local laws about marriage and family therapy.

Marriage counselors are trained in different types of therapy to cover all kind of disorders and problems which are related to relationships in family. But you do not need to be married to visit a family therapist – if you have mental disorder, behavioral or relationships problem – you also can visit a marriage counselor. And when you in marriage that does not means that you can visit counselor only with your spouse – family therapy can be effective with just one person.

What kinds of help can marriage counselor offer? Diagnostic and therapy of mental disorders, individual, family, couple and group therapy, planning of course of treatment, counseling in area of marriage relationships, premarital and marital coaching. Survey, which was performed by AAMFT shows that patients feedback about course of therapy is always high – 98.1% of respondents mark services as excellent and 97.1% say, that they gain that type of help what that need. After course of therapy people feel better in physical and emotional attitude, children school performance and behavior become better. Even work functioning was improved by 54.8% respondents.

As opposite to surveys, that showing small effectiveness of marriage counseling lets look at statistic of surveys in which was interviewed people, who passes course of family therapy: 98% mark service as good, 97% go kind of help they need, 93% notice, that they now dealing with problems better, 54% improve their work, 58% say that their children improve marks in school.

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