Welcome to the CARING Online Premarital Health Counseling Webinars for Young Adults
We have several upcoming webinars that you can register for!
We know that your schedule can be hectic, and so can ours! So we regularly hold online webinars in various areas of premarital counseling by Dr. MKC Nair, the renowned developmental pediatrician, and health care counselor with more than 40 years of experience.
Go into your marriage feeling prepared and confident that you can take on any problems concerning marriage, children, family obligations, work, and even infidelity. Build a strong foundation for a happy marriage by listing the webinar series on premarital counseling, before getting married.
Upcoming premarital health counseling webinar series;
Premarital Health Counseling (PMHC) is emerging as a growing trend worldwide. Couples all over are accepting it in their quest for a safe marriage, disease-free life as well as healthy future progeny. The couples are who are planning to get married will be provided with accurate and unbiased information and assistance, through the webinar series. A bio-psycho-social model approach will be adopted for imparting information. Topics covered in these series will include;
How to develop healthy marital relationships
Every relationship is unique, and people come together from many different backgrounds. Part of what defines a healthy relationship is sharing a common goal for exactly what you want the relationship to be and where you want it to go. However, there are also some characteristics that most healthy relationships have in common. Knowing these basic principles can help keep your relationship meaningful, fulfilling, and exciting whatever goals you’re working towards or challenges you’re facing together.
Physical health aspects of marriage
Because the health of a marriage is ultimately determined by individual health, we need to be diligent about emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual fitness. The degree of happiness with the marriage, or marital quality, is also related to physical health. Physical health can be measured in many ways, including physician ratings of a patient’s functioning, participant self-reports of how healthy they feel, or objective biological markers like obesity, anemia, blood pressure or cholesterol levels, etc.
Reproductive health aspects in marriage
Reproductive health addresses the human sexuality and reproductive processes, functions, and system at all stages of life and implies that people are able to have “a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. In our country, young people receive very little guidance from their parents, school curricula, or the media about gender roles and responsibilities, child-rearing, and similar issues to prepare them for their new life as husbands and wives e.g., understanding of gender roles and responsibilities, child-rearing skills, etc.
Sexual health aspects of marriage
The current WHO working definition of sexual health encompasses human rights related to sexual health, sexual pleasure, eroticism, gender and sexual relationship diversity, sexual satisfaction, diseases (HIV/AIDS, STIs, RTIs), violence, sexual dysfunction, and mental health-related to sexual health. Sexual health is now considered as one of the four pillars of health: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Sexual. Sexual health can be understood as a set of principles that integrate personal values, ethics, religious beliefs, cultural norms, and unconventional sexual interests or practices. Sexual health principles construct a broad international set of minimum ground rules upon which each person can come to know their own specific individual vision of personal sexual health.
Mental health aspects of marriage
Mental health determines how we think, feel, and act as we cope with everyday life. Mental health greatly affects relationships. When we assess our mental health, it helps us unpack the personal baggage that we inadvertently bring to the marriage. The negative effects of marital strain on regulating negative emotions may explain why poor marital quality increases the risk for mood and anxiety disorders and exacerbates and perpetuates substance use disorders.
Importance of healthy communication in marriage
Communication is important in order for a marriage to stay strong and united. Conflict resolution is a huge part of the communication process. It’s very interesting to see how often people underestimate the importance of communication in marriage. It’s actually one of the most crucial elements of relationships that are going to withstand the test of time, it also happens to be one of the most common silent killers of relationships. Healthy communication is the glue that keeps the relationship together.
Marital adjustment and healthy coping strategies
A marital relationship is one of the most stable interpersonal relationships and its impact on individuals is more than any other relationship. A marital adjustment may be conceptualized as a process and the outcome is determined by the amount of (i) troublesome marital differences (ii) interpersonal tensions and personal anxiety (iii) marital satisfaction (iv) marital cohesion, and (5) consensus on matters of importance to marital functioning. Marital is the mental state among couples in which there is an overall feeling of happiness and satisfaction with their marriage. One of the most important factors that affect relationships is the spouse’s mechanism to cope with stress.
Premarital health screening
The premarital health screening includes few medical examinations like blood group, anemia status, rubella vaccination, thyroid dysfunction, reproductive tract infections, menstrual disorders, mental health status, etc, for couples who are about to get married, and its corrective measures, in order to prevent diseases which may affect the quality of marriage and the health of future generations and to provide premarital health guidance for issues, if any. Promotion activities and health education to improve knowledge and attitudes to premarital health screening will help increase the rate of voluntary premarital screening.
Marital satisfaction assessment
Marriage is perhaps the most complex and challenging of all human relationships. The joining of two people in a relationship that is intended to last a lifetime can involve great effort to develop and maintain. The divorce rates reveal that too often, couples are not equipped to deal with the challenges they face in marriage. A significant proportion of married couples are surprised to experience serious marital conflicts early in their relationships. Quality premarital preparation can reduce the risk of divorce and increase relationship skills and satisfaction. Studies found that individuals who are satisfied with their marriages exhibit better health than those who are disappointed with their relationships do. Clarifying the underlying factors of our behaviors involved in maintaining our affective relationships, contributes to the general well-being of the individuals in general, aiding them and their family to stay healthy, both physically and psychologically.
Emotional health in marriage
Emotional health improves when we understand our emotional makeup and tend to our emotional needs. As married couples, we can actively pursue emotional health as we address issues such as bitterness, unforgiveness, blame, lust, pride, control and self-sufficiency. These elements tend to creep into our lives and too often we defend our right to hold on to them. Another important part of emotional health in married life has to do with evaluating the positives and negatives of each other.
