What is Integrated Behaviour Health Counseling (Marriage and Family)?
Marriage and Family counseling course focuses on teaching and equipping the curative approach for building the basic unit of our society. The goal of MA MFC is to empower and nurture the institution of marriage and family and strengthen the synergy between these two most basic social units upon which our society is built.
Marriage and family counselors regard that a healthy stable and functional marriage strives to achieve permanence of this relationship which bolsters a strong emotional and psychological connection among the family members. This builds strong and resilient individuals, that create strong homes and in turn a strong society. The course is designed to engage in teaching and training skills, therapies, and interventions through a comprehensive, academic curriculum assimilating both knowledge as well as application. This is achieved through lectures, workshops, and intensive counseling practicum under trained supervisors and mentors.
Why Marriage & Family Counseling ?
In today’s VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) that is characterized by fast-changing self suited ideology, the institution of marriage and family is caught in the quicksand of individualism. Commitment, trust, integrity, love that were so intrinsic to the human relationship are pursued in the context of self-gratification. Therefore producing an incapacitated value system and resulting in a fragile world.
Keeping in mind the present drift and its hazards, the MA in Marriage and Family Counseling course has been designed to equip and coach individuals, various ethical approaches in counseling integrating psychology and theology which are both rich in knowledge and application. All this is in order to restore back faith and hope in the institution of marriage and family.
Who are Marriage & Family Counselors ?
A marriage and family counselor is passionately a people’s person. Who carries a burden for broken lives and especially is moved by the sad state of affairs in relationships within marriage and families. You could be a professional from engineering, medicine, teaching or social work background or a businessman, religious leader in any local church, or even a homemaker. The course enables you to meaningfully help people in any set up such as educational institutions, secular and religious organizations, social service agencies to name a few.
How to become a Certified Marriage & Family Counselor ?
The Masters and Postgraduate Marriage and family counseling course requires a Bachelors degree from any recognized university in India or Abroad. Certified MFCs will receive regular supervision, mentoring, and support for their future endeavors as a counselor. They can also benefit from the network of counselors working within and outside the city for continued exposure and experience while on the job. According to the guidelines of ethical counseling, they will be expected to maintain a credible practice and remain accountable through professional supervision.
Where are Marriage & Family Counselors Employed?
Graduating Students can engage in counseling services for individual Counselees of all ages, such as children, late adolescents, and adults and older adults facing personal stress, Emotional issues, Marital, Parenting or Family difficulties.
They can work with groups to assist them in finding solutions to many of these same problems, as well as to improve the personal and interpersonal functioning of group members.
They can facilitate Individual/ Couple/ Family as well as group sessions in Church settings.
They can also consult with organizations and workgroups to help employees deal with work-related stress as well as personal issues which will help them enhance effectiveness.
