The document summarizes a presentation on family and conflict resolution. It discusses the causes of family conflicts, common reasons for disputes like dowry demands and extramarital affairs. It also analyzes the nature of cases handled at a family counseling center, including personality differences, property disputes, and domestic violence. The counseling center assists families through services like counseling, legal aid referrals, and psychiatric help. Suggestions are provided to emphasize the importance of pre-marital counseling and family counseling centers to help reconcile couples and reduce divorce rates.

1. FAMILY & CONFLICT
RESOLUTION
PRESENTED BY:
GRACE BERYL CAROLINA.D
& AARTHI V.S.
II M.S.W
STELLA MARIS COLLEGE

2. FAMILY
 ‘Some families are nurturing places where people learn
about their abilities, practice giving and receiving love, and
dare to dream what they might become.
 ‘Some families are prisons where people do what they are
told and wait long years for a word of appreciation or
agitate for an opportunity to escape.’
- Miller

3. What makes the Difference ??
 ‘The way a family communicates. A word or a
look can lock someone in their world as turning
a key. Yet the key that opens the possibilities of
your World is still a look or a word. The
difference ? – Effective Communication.’
- Miller

4. What is CONFLICT ??
Hocker and Wilmot(1985, p. 23) define conflict as "an
expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties
who perceive incompatible goals, scarce rewards, and
interference from the other party in achieving their goals”.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION:
Conflict Resolution is conceptualized as the methods and
processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of some
social conflict.

5. What Causes Conflict ??
 Perceived breach of faith and trust.
 There is unresolved disagreement between
individuals that has escalated to an emotional
level.
 Miscommunication. Grrrrr…..
 There are personality clashes.
 Differences in acquired values.
Grrrrr…..

6. COMMON REASONS FOR FAMILY DISPUTES AS
OBSERVED TODAY:
 Provocations and hurting each other by taunts, sarcasms
 Wife battering, dowry, bride burning;
 Violent behaviour of either spouse more often than not the husbands;
 Use of alcohol and drug abuse are also important factors;
 In many parts of India the question of dowry or promised dowry becomes
a point of wrangling between the spouses. The situation may be further
worsened or aggravated by needless interference from in-laws;
 Extra marital relations by either spouse or promiscuity;
 Doubting the integrity/ character of spouse (by either spouse).

7. THE NEED FOR FAMILY COUNSELLING
CENTRES :
• In India, in the wake of increased family disputes, divorces,
family violence, dowry harassment and family maladjustments
some support systems came into existence to help the victims
and the aggrieved parties. This gave rise to introduction of
family courts and the concept of Family Counselling Centres.
• STUDY FOCUSES ON THE NATURE OF CASES
HANDLED AT THE FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE,
ASHA NIVAS (Office of the Commissioner of Police)

8. MY STUDY: NATURE OF CASES HANDLED AT
THE FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE
(ASHA NIVAS)
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
• To study the services of the Family Counselling Centre.
• To study the various types of cases and the interventive
strategies used in family counselling.
• To learn the role of the Family Counsellor and the Family
Counselling Centre.
RESEARCH DESIGN:
The design used for the study is Descriptive Design.
SAMPLING DESIGN:
The design used for the study is Non-Random Sampling
Technique

9. TABLE 1: AGE OF THE CLIENTS
S:N Particulars Frequency (f) Percentage (%)
o
June July Augu June July Augu
st st
Age:
1 Below 20 1 2 0 1.7 3.70 0
2 20 - 24 9 8 3 16.07 14.8 21.42
3 25 - 29 22 21 3 39.28 38.8 21.42
4 30 - 34 11 7 4 19.6 12.9 28.57
5 35 - 39 6 8 1 10.7 14.8 7.14
6 40 - 44 3 2 1 5.35 3.7 7.14
7 45 - 49 1 0 1 1.7 0 7.14
8 Above 50 3 6 1 5.35 11.1 7.14
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10. TABLE 2: SEX OF THE CLIENTS:
S:N Particulars Frequency (f) Percentage (%)
o:
June July Augu June July Augu
st st
Sex:
1 Male 4 6 3 7.14 11.11 21.42
2 Female 52 48 11 92.85 88.88 78.57
TOTAL 56 54 14 100 100 100

11. TYPE OF FAMILY

12. TABLE 3: COMMUNITY OF THE CLIENTS
S:N Particulars Frequency (f) Percentage (%)
o:
June July Augu June July Augus
st t
Place:
1 Urban 38 37 7 67.85 68.51 50
2 Sub-Urban 20 21 6 35.71 38.8 42.85
3 Rural 1 1 1 1.78 1.85 7.14
TOTAL 56 54 14 100 100 100

13. TABLE 4 : EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
OF THE CLIENTS
S:N Particulars Frequency (f) Percentage (%)
o:
June July Augu June July Augus
st t
Educational
Qualification:
1 Illiterate 4 6 1 7.14 11.11 7.14
2 Below +2 15 23 5 26.7 42.5 35.7
3 +2 12 2 1 21.42 3.70 7.14
4 Graduate 15 8 5 26.7 14.8 35.7
5 Post Graduate 6 6 1 10.7 11.11 7.14
6 Engineer 1 5 0 1.7 9.25 0
7 Diploma 3 4 1 5.35 7.40 7.14
TOTAL 56 54 14 100 100 100

14. NATURE OF CASES:
 Dowry Demand
 Personality Differences
 Love Affair/Unwed
 Property Dispute
Mothers
 Extra Marital Affair  Sexual Problem
 Substance Abuse/Harassment  Unemployment/Economic
 Paranoid Tendency Crisis
 Bigamy  Mal- Adjustment with In
Laws
 Sexual Abuse
 Problem by Spouse & In
 Desertion laws
 Mental Illness  Mal Adjustment with
Parents & Children
 Mal Adjustment With
Spouse

15. TABLE 5: ASSISTANCE RENDERED AT THE
FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE
S:No Particulars
:
1 Counselling
2 Referred to Legal Aid
3 Family Court
4 Protection Officer
5 Psychiatric Help
6 Short Stay Homes
7 De-Addiction Centre’s
8 Sex Therapist
9 Civil Supply Office
10 Police Assistance

16. SUGGESTIONS AND FINDINGS
 The findings revealed the varied nature of cases handled by the
counsellors at the Family Counselling Centre. The cases reveal that
women bore the brunt of marital conflict as a result of violence,
dowry harassment, desertion etc.
• It was also noted that majority of the cases that were referred at the
counselling centre, were at a point were reunion was impossible;
that is, the time gap of separation was long or simple
misunderstandings had grown into huge heaps of misconceptions.
Hence, efforts should be taken to give importance to pre-marital
counselling, as it would enable couples to face reality than raking up
petty issues, thereby landing up in separation or divorce.

17. SUGGESTIONS AND FINDINGS
 The findings also revealed that a majority of physical harassment on
the women was due to the demanding of unmet dowry needs that
was often instigated upon the man by his parents.
 Family Counselling Centres can become a moral support system in
our society, which is standing witness to the ever increasing divorce
rates of young couples. These centres can ensure and provide ample
guidance for couples who are having a constrained relationship
between themselves, thereby giving vent for couples to reconsider and
reunite.

18. IN CONCLUSION…
In order to make things fair, all INDIVIDUALS have to:
• Each person must be determined to work
together with the others.
• Understand the differences and accept the differences
• Avoid making things worse
• Work together
• Find a solution

19. THANK YOU
PRESENTED BY:
GRACE BERYL CAROLINA. D
AND V.S. AARTHI
II M.S.W
STELLA MARIS COLLEGE