THE PROCESS AND IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE COUNSELLING FOR MARRIED COUPLES: AN OVERVIEW

The aim of this study is to discuss the process and importance of marriage counselling for married couples. The use of marriage counselling were greater for persons with a positive attitude toward seeking marriage counselling and those who had previous marriage counselling. However, those having a supportive subjective norm were more likely to seek marriage counselling is the persons with no history of marriage counselling. Similarities and differences between males and females for the type of marital problem that might lead to marriage counselling and the implications for counsellors are presented. This study also determines the use of inquiry method in the counselling and counselling theories approaches. The research examined descriptive level specific problem areas for which an individual might pursue marriage counselling and how these varied by gender. Besides that, more general indices because it specifically targets beliefs about marriage be more strongly correlated to relationship variables (e.g., marital satisfaction) than have measures of generalized expectancies. KEYWORDS : Importance, Marriage Counselling, Process, Behaviour, Attitude, Sex Differences