Syllabus

Course Code: M-SOCE-022    Course Name: Family & Marriage Welfare Counseling

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Family and Marriage: Characteristics, Functions and Types; Marriage under Ethnic Civil Codes in India; Quasi-Marriage (live-in-partnership) and Rights; Inheritance Succession and Authority.
2 Discrepancies in Family and Marriage: Broken Homes, Family Tension, Role Stresses, Domestic Violence; Marital Discrepancies- Alienation & Desertion, Divorce, Gender Injustice, Sexual Harassment; Constraints of Traditions in Hindu and Muslim Marriages; Problems of Children, Youth and Elderly.
3 Family and Marriage Counselling: Meaning, Nature and Scope of Counselling Intervention; Institutionalization of Family & Marriage Counselling; Process & Methods of Counseling: Responding to the discrepant relationships- Registration of Clients and preparing database, Scrutiny of cases for Intervention, Hearing through Clinics, Helplines, Family Visits; Distribution of Counselling Literature; Medical aids; Resocialisation and Gender Sensitization
4 Counselling Approaches/Paradigms: Principles- Ways of Presenting Counselor, understanding Clients, and Ways of Intervening; Choice of Approaches: Psychodynamics, Humanistic (Empathy- Sympathy), Cognitive-Behavioural, Family System; Functional, Critical & Feminist and Postmodern (Narrative Self), Emotive and Moral Corrections; Changing Care and Support System; Yoga Therapy; Eclecticism of Approaches.
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