In western developed countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China, there are many professionally certified marriage emotional counselors. They provide counseling services for those who encounter problems in love, marriage and family life, and effectively help people relieve all kinds of marriage and love troubles. Generally, every 300 families have 1 marriage counselor. At present, there are nearly10.2 million marriage counselors in the United States, serving 40 million families, and the number of counselors is increasing rapidly every year. Marriage counselor is respected, with high social status, high income and flexible working hours. For a long time, because there is no professional certified marriage counselor in China, marriage counseling has to be undertaken by social workers such as women's federations, trade unions, Communist Youth League organizations and family planning committees at all levels, which is far from meeting the huge needs of society. China has a population of 65.438+0.38 billion and 370 million families, and the number of urban families alone has reached 65.438+0.654.38+0.00 billion. Most people have to go through the process of choosing a spouse, falling in love, getting married, starting a family and having children. At present, people's requirements for quality of life, marriage and family happiness are constantly improving. However, in the face of confusion in mate selection, frustration in love, turmoil in marriage, disharmony in family and crisis of adolescent growth, many people are confused and have various problems. Many parties who encounter marital and emotional problems have no recourse, and even lead to personal life tragedy. In some big cities, the divorce rate has reached more than 35%. Therefore, there is a huge market demand for marital emotional counseling. According to the urban population alone, the occupational gap of marriage and emotional counselors in Chinese mainland is over 400,000.
The employment direction of marital emotional counselors includes:
(1) Marriage counseling centers of women's federations, trade unions, civil affairs, family planning and education departments at all levels, and women's rights protection agencies;
(2) Marriage emotional counseling centers, marriage law firms, marriage investigation and evidence collection units, marriage agencies, wedding service agencies, etc. ;
(3) Family education consulting institutions, children consulting and training institutions, youth activity centers, etc. ;
(4) Community service centers, community elderly clubs, domestic service agencies, family health service agencies, health fitness beauty clubs, etc. ;
(5) around the emotional hotline, psychological counseling center, etc. ;
(6) love and marriage columnists and consulting experts in magazines, television and radio;
(7) Do independent consultation and set up a marriage and emotional counseling center (this training provides business guidance services).