Courses Details

• Lectures 8
• Quizzes 1
• Duration 3 months
• Skill level Beginner
• Language English & Yoruba
• Students 32
• Assessments Yes

Course Description

Marriage and psychological health counsellors promote healthy marriage and family life by proper counselling to avoid and handle marital and family crisis that can affect people's emotion, mental health and general well-being.

Marriage can have a positive impact on psychological health in a number of ways, including:

• Sense of purpose.
• Marriage can give people a greater sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.
• Sense of self. Marriage can improve a person's sense of self.
• Sense of mastery: Marriage can increase a person's sense of mastery.
• Stress hormones: Married men have lower levels of stress hormones.

Psychological distress: Happy married women experience less psychological distress than unmarried women.

Love and intimacy: Married mothers feel more love and intimacy than unmarried women.

Protection: Marriage can act as a protective factor against psychological distress.

Some common problems in marriages include: Communication, Household chores, Finances, Intimacy with partner, and Infidelity.

Some ways to repair an unhappy marriage include:

• Sharing joy
• Blaming the situation, not your spouse.
• Kissing each other and more.

Research shows that high marital quality is associated with normal blood pressure, lower stress, less depression, and higher satisfaction with life.

Close relationships correlate significantly with overall psychopathology as well as specific mental disorders. Research has linked marital quality specifically and consistently to disorders of mood and anxiety, as well as substance use and personality disorders.

Marriage and psychological health counsellors promote positive marriages and family life, they are trained to provide aids to rescue people from marriage and family crisis.

You can study this course by attending ONLINE OR PHYSICAL CLASS for 3 months Certificate Course.