AN INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF COUNSELOR: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN COUPLES, STAKEHOLDERS AND RECONCILIATION FOR MARITAL DISPUTES

Abstract

The family is universally regarded as the primary unit of society and family tend to be very close knit. When the stability, faith and confidence of the members of the family are threatened by a dispute, people mostly approach to the elders of the family or other authority who has influence or NGOs. If it doesn’t settle there they approach to the arms of judiciary like police or court to stop the dispute or secure their right within the family. While working in the family court witnessed and intervened in such cases regularly. Counselors in family court are the key persons as every case filed in the family court are directed to counselors for amicable settlement. The counselors are helping couples realize the root cause of their problem and engaging them in the problem solving process by intervening as counselor, educator, mentor, mediator, negotiator, conciliator, facilitator, etc. Once the rapport is built then they act as friend and philosopher to the couple.