Environment In Counseling

Introduction Family is the first and basic unit in human society and the strength and goodness of society depends on the strength and goodness of the family. Marriage is thus basic institution around which the acceptable identity of human race, individuals, family, cities and nation resolve. Marriage is an institution that is recognized, practiced and fully utilized by different communities on earth. It is importance in the scheme of societal development and operation cannot be over emphasized. In any human union, there is bound to be disputes, quarrel misunderstanding and squabbles here and there more particularly when it comes to union of man and women in the name of marriage, which is normally entered into with idea of permanence

In terms of environment and psycho social environment. Good physical environment and setting contribute toward success of counseling relationship between marital couples and marriage counselor. The chief aim of a counseling interview is to get the couple to open up, the counselors principal role is to listen, the clients (couples)/ (spouse) is to talk. One of the pre-condition of getting client to talk to a counselor about very sensitive issue is for the client to feel safe, a counselor can make clients to feel safe by creating space and time, as well as allowing clients to see him/her not as prosecutor or persecutor, but as a friend and helper. For client to feel safe usually counseling is conducted in privacy and the discussion is confidential. For most clients, the nature of their problem is psychological in nature, and counselor are skilled in working with client who have psychological problems, it all depends on individual counselor’s skillful uses of his/her interview and interviewing skills to really get to help his/her clients. Marital counseling also look into how to strengthen spouse relationship and prepare constructively for future challenges and conflicts that everyone will inevitably face at some point in their

Sensitive counselor perceive, respond to, and communicate the emotional tones, the moods and the conflicts of the clients. This cloud be shown in the way the counselor respond to clients through reflection of feeling. Reflecting back to the client that he or she is being heard and providing them an opportunity to hear themselves. Often hearing one’s own thoughts and feelings in another person’s words add a clarity and support that is difficult to grasp. When the emotional tumoil simply swims around an individual. Sometimes, because counselor has a lot of experience witnessing humans in various forms of life challenges. They as questions or share experiences/ observations that are more revealing than what friends of family member might say. With these new revelations clients make decisions and thus client make decisions, and thus may take action toward positive growth in their