Family therapy and couples counseling on marriage issues with links and more information.
The marriage counselors at Marriage-counselling.org
Marriage Counseling Directory
PFind therapists and marriage counselors in the US and Canada, as well as live telephone counseling, online counseling, marriage counseling alternatives and more.
www.counsellin-directory.org.uk/marriage.html
www.onlinecounselingtherapy.com
www.sunrisecounselling.com/christian_councel.html
A online service in South Africa with marriage counselors
www.asktheinternettherapist.com
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On couples counseling (marriage):"Family therapy, also referred to as couple therapy and family systems therapy, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.
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What the different schools of family therapy have in common is a belief that, regardless of the origin of the problem, and regardless of whether the clients consider it an "individual" or "family" issue, involving families in solutions is often beneficial. This involvement of families is commonly accomplished by their direct participation in the therapy session. The skills of the family therapist thus include the ability to influence conversations in a way that catalyzes the strengths, wisdom, and support of the wider system. (Aslo with marriage issues.)
In the field's early years, many clinicians defined the family in a narrow, traditional manner usually including parents and children. As the field has evolved, the concept of the family is more commonly defined in terms of strongly supportive, long-term roles and relationships between people who may or may not be related by blood.
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Family therapy has been used effectively in the full range of human dilemmas; there is no category of relationship or psychological problem that has not been addressed with this approach..."
Marriage therapists (counselors) are also informed by the same schools of thought in their marriage or couples work.
"Family therapy is really a way of thinking, an epistemology rather than about how many people sit in the room with the therapist. Family therapists are relational therapists; they are generally more interested in what goes between people rather than in people. Depending on circumstances, a therapist may point out to the family interaction patterns that the family might have not noticed; or suggest different ways of responding to other family members. These changes in the way of responding may then trigger repercussions in the whole system, leading to a more satisfactory systemic state; it should be noted though, that some family therapists - in particular those that identify as psychodynamic, object relations, intergenerational, EFT, or experiential family therapists - tend to be as interested in individuals as in systems.
Family therapists tend to be more interested in the maintenance and/or solving of problems rather than in trying to identify a single cause. A causal focus can be experienced as blaming by some families and is with many issues of questionable clinical utility. Media and the Family has been emerging as an important area since the introduction of the topic by Bernard Luskin at the spring 2008 CAMFT Conference. The effect of media on behavior has become so pervasive now that those studying family therapy are now studying the subject." From the wikipedia
Marriage and family (Marriage, Marriage help, Marriage advice.)
