Saturday, November 13, 2010

Relationship Counseling - New Type Of Helping

By Joshua Dering

Marriage counseling - is a type of therapy, which targeted on relationship problems and different types of mental illness. Marriage counselors (also known as Marriage and Family Therapists, MFTs or just Family Therapists) are trained in psychotherapeutics and family relationships systems. Marriage counselors - one of the five basic psychiatry profession (psychiatric nurse, social worker, psychologists, psychiatrist). What is the difference between family therapists and other? MFTs works with farther spectrum of problems and can trained in various types of therapy - from alcoholism to children's psychology. If we talk about effectiveness of this type of therapy - research shows that marriage counseling is a cost-effective and short-run treatment and, all the same, shows high quality and high level of client satisfaction.

It's not required to be married to visit marriage counselors - they gain training in working with couples and with individual disorders. You can visit a marriage counselor to train in handling your own problems as well as with all you family to work together on the domestic surround. Different surveys and research in area of marriage counseling shows that this type of therapy is very effective and effect reached in sort terms. Most of the patients, go through mental therapy notice that they meet their expectations and handle their problems, and slightly bit more than half of respondents mention that they improved their work conditions and physical health.

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.

Statistics of Marriage counseling. Here is some statistic, related to marriage counseling: every year 5.8 million people are annual patients of marriage counselors, every year they visited by 2,277,031 individuals, 863,701 couples and 549,628 families, 3.7% of households are visiting counselor.

How much does it cost? Marriage counseling is cost-effective, because can provide brief courses of solution-oriented therapy that results in lower price for client. Here are some standard rates for family therapy: from $60 to $90 per hour (it depends on kind of therapy and other settings), course of treatment costs from $789 to $960. But 68% of practitioners can reduce cost dependently of patients ability to pay. - 42629

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