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Does Marriage Counseling Work?

Article source: National Directory of Family and Marriage Counselors at www.counsel-search.com

When considering marriage counseling, it's difficult not to wonder whether seeing a marriage counselor will actually work. This article provides some objective information based on data obtained from a national survey of marriage and family counselors and their clients. Also presented are several interesting opinions provided by individuals who have actually been through marriage counseling and were asked to comment on whether or not seeing a marriage counselor proved effective in helping their relationship.

In an article published by Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, clients of marriage and family counselors from 15 different states reported on their experience with counseling. The findings indicated that marriage and family counselors treated a wide range of issues in relatively short-term fashion, couple and family therapy are briefer than individual therapy, and that client satisfaction and functional improvement are quite high.

[*] Specifically, of clients from 526 marriage and family counselors in 15 different states:

98.1% rated services good or excellent 97.1% got the kind of help they desired 91.2% were satisfied with the amount of help they received 93% said they were helped in dealing more effectively with problems 94.3% would return to the same therapist in the future 96.9% would recommend their therapist to a friend 97.4% were generally satisfied with the service they received 63.4% reported improved physical health 54.8% reported improvement in functioning at work 73.7% indicated improvement in children's behavior 58.7% showed improvement in children's school performance [*] Excerpted from

About the author: Shelly Phegley is a staff writer for The National Directory of Family and Marriage Counselors at The National Directory of Family and Marriage Counselors-A resource center for those facing mariage issues. Research counseling options near you.

Author: Shelly Phegley

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