Counseling is a professional practice. As such, ethical standards have been delineated to describe the best practices of professionals and to ensure high quality of practice (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2003). In countries where counseling has existed as a formal profession for some time, such as the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom, codes of ethics have been developed and periodically...

BACKGROUND We have investigated a strategy for identifying and counseling carriers of recessively inherited disorders in developing countries where consanguineous marriage is common. In such communities, gene variants are trapped within extended families, so that an affected child is a marker of a group at high genetic risk. METHODS Fifteen large Pakistani families, 10 with a history of a hem...

Spouses' emotional ties to family early in marriage are linked to marital outcomes, but little is known about how these ties affect marital stability and whether these effects vary by race and gender. The present study examines the links between emotional ties to family of origin and in-laws in the first year of marriage and marital stability over the first 16 years of marriage. Data were colle...

This research aimed to describe the solution model for child marriage. took place in Malang Regency. The subjects this were married couples who at age of children, parents from woman’s side (wife), and community leaders. Research data obtained through observation in-depth interviews, then analyzed with interactive techniques. impact marriage that occured Regency caused family not function prope...