I. In the United States – II. In Germany
I. In the United States
Marriage counseling in the United States can be clarified by making three distinctions: (1) counseling for engaged couples (pre-marital counseling) and married couples (marriage counseling); (2) counseling informed by the social sciences and purely theological counseling; (3) counseling that is primarily educational or remedial or curative in intent.
Most marriage counseling today combines theological with social scientific perspe…