FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRES:   
                       
                 A STUDY 
        
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
        
                                         
        
        
        
        
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           FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRES:   
                        A STUDY 
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
                          2011 
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                                 
          National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child Development 
            Regional Centre, Gudamba, Kursi Road, Lucknow - 226026 
                                             
                                             
                                                                CONTENTS 
                                             
                                             
           S. No.  Topics                                          Page No. 
                                                                        
             1.    Foreword                                           i – ii   
             2.    Chapter I                                            
                   Introduction                                      1 –  9 
             3.    Chapter II                                           
                   Research Design                                  10 – 13  
             4.    Chapter III                                          
                   The Profile of the Organizations and the FCCs    14 – 19  
             5.    Chapter IV                                           
                   The Counsellors                                  20 – 38  
             6.    Chapter V                                            
                   The Clients                                      39 – 49  
             7.    Chapter VI                                            
                   Case Studies                                     50 – 58 
             8.    Chapter VII                                          
                   Conclusions and Recommendations                  59 – 63  
             9.    Bibliography                                     64 – 66  
                                             
                                                                             
            
            
            
            
                                        Foreword 
                            
                            
          Family is an oldest institution that has helped the human kind to survive all these 
       centuries. It is united by the ties of marriage, the members interacting and communicating 
       with each other in their respective roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and 
       daughters etc. It provides an environment of love, belongingness security to its members, 
       which guarantees them marital peace, fulfillment and growth. But today, the scenario is 
       fast changing and the family, a very precious unit of the society is being threatened by 
       many factors.  
        
          In fact, it has been seen across the country that powerlessness among women is 
       directly proportional to the intensity to violence experienced by women. In the face of 
       widespread  prevalence,  domestic  violence  is  not  acknowledged  and  has  remained 
       invisible  from  the  public  domain.  Silence  is  maintained  around  this  issue  and  it  is 
       construed as an issue unworthy of legal or political attention. Phenomenon of domestic 
       violence is recognized as private affair and is kept under wraps because of concerns of 
       guilt, shame and secrecy. Interference into domestic privacy has traditionally been seen 
       as a greater evil than actual violence inflicted upon a woman.   
        
          The marital relationship  is  under  increasing  strain  and  becoming  complex  and 
       demanding. There are growing instances of divorce, marital discord, demand for dowry, 
       bride burning, violation of woman’s dignity etc. 
        
          In order to help couples with strained relations, marital discord and to provide the 
       warring factions of the family a platform to discuss their problems and to find solutions, 
       the scheme of Family Counselling Centres (FCCs) was launched by Government of India 
       in  1983. It  is  being  implemented by Central Social Welfare Board through voluntary 
       organizations all across the country. The broad objective of the scheme is to provide 
       preventive  and  rehabilitation  services  to  women  and  families  who  were  victims  of 
       atrocities,  harassment  and  family  mal-adjustments  through  crisis  intervention  and 
       systematic counselling. 
        
          Under the study a total of 11 FCCs were studied intensively from the states of 
       Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. 
        
          The findings of the study revealed that it is a very useful scheme rendering unique 
       services of uniting families which were otherwise on the verge of collapse. Quite a few 
       case studies were presented in the report, which give an idea as to how these institutions 
       were  instrumental  in  helping  the  families  and  individuals.  Although  the  findings  are 
       based on a small sample but it gives a fairly good understanding on the functioning of 
       FCCs  in  general,  type  of  cases  reported,  technical  manpower  available  with  these