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Counselling centre cementing bonds
A woman completed the law degree and married an employee of a private company and they were blessed with a child. Even after 10 years of married life, the couple used to quarrel as the husband was addicted to alcohol and used to beat his wife frequently for more money and jewellery.
Tirupati: A woman completed the law degree and married an employee of a private company and they were blessed with a child. Even after 10 years of married life, the couple used to quarrel as the husband was addicted to alcohol and used to beat his wife frequently for more money and jewellery.
Highlights:
- SPMVV’s Social Work dept and Police dept are jointly running the centre
- Thousands of family disputes resolved in the last 22 years
She had approached the family counselling centre run jointly by Social work department of Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV) and the Police department.
The counsellors at the Centre resolved the problem by conducting counselling to the couple. Thousands of such cases were resolved by the Centre in the last 22 years. The varsity’s Social Work department started the centre after coming to know couples and families are being separated by quarrelling on petty issues. The issue was so severe in 44 slums in pilgrim city which have population of 25,000.
Later, Central Social Welfare Board has sponsored it and sanctioned posts of social worker, psychologist, clerk and peon. It was linked with the field work for MA Social work students.
Once in a year, a faculty member from the Social Work department works at the counselling centre as Coordinator. It has registered 2,672 cases till now from 1995 and every week 5-10 cases were being registered. They resolve cases of love marriages, differences among couples, extramarital affairs and perform counselling and guidance to children and youth.
The centre is receiving overwhelming response as they register cases with multi-dimensional family problems from different walks of life, said senior Professor K Murugaiah of the Social Work department. If any family dispute is reported to them, they will attend to it round-the-clock, he added.
Prof IV Lalitha Kumari, HoD of Social Work department, said more cases are registered in the first one year after the marriage as there are no elders to advise newly married couples. Another senior professor in the department Dr K Anuradha said that people with family disturbances should be handled carefully. Counselling is a process not a remedy, she said. However, the centre has been achieving 70-75 per cent success rate. “There are failure cases too, after all we are dealing with human beings,” Anuradha maintained.
By V Pradeep Kumar
