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marriage counseling  

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  • Historically, marriage counseling in the United States was an outgrowth and extension of individual PsychoTherapy and occurred at the approximate time of the advent of Family Therapy. Like individual PsychoTherapy, models of marriage counseling traditionally favored Eurocentric and Caucasian worldviews. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity; Marriage Counseling]

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  • marital therapy

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/marriage_counseling

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