SCHEME OF FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE (F.C.C)

The Scheme of Family Counselling Centre was introduced by CSWB in 1983. The Family Counselling centres provided counselling, referral and rehabilitative services to women and Children who are victims of atrocities. Family maladjustment and social ostracism and also provide crisis intervention and trauma counselling in case of natural disasters. The Centres also create awareness and mobilize public opinion on social issues affecting status of women. The FCCs work in close collaboration with the local administration, police, courts, free legal aid cells, medical and psychiatric institutions, vocational training centres, short stay home etc.

 Purulia being the most backward district of the state with chronic poverty, highest rate of illiteracy, traditional superstation and ignorance with other deviances of behavioral customs and taboos, women are often tortured and subjected to crime without adequate social protection. A family counselling centre was a crying need in the district of Purulia.

With the view to intervene effectively for the suffering of women in the society, Family Counselling centre, the only one centre in the district of Purulia was established at KALYAN by Central Social Welfare Board through the State Social Welfare Board, West Bengal in the year 1987.

The board objective of the scheme is to provided preventive and rehabilitation service to women and families who were victims of atrocities, harassment and family mal-adjustment through crisis intervention and systematic counselling.

Common reasons for family disputes as observed today:

• The wife, as such, may not consider the husband as the sole provider, or philosopher who will direct and control major or even minor family decisions.
• When provocations and hurting each other by taunts, sarcasms and abuses become a repetitive pattern of behavior of spouse.
• Wife battering, dowry, bride burning.
• Violent behavior of either spouse more often than not the husband.
• Another factories education, particularly when the wife is more educated than the husband and the husband does not have regular or steady work.
• Use of alcohol and drug abuse is also important factors.
• Some women consider sex dirty and find it difficult to enjoy it with their partners, the husband or the wife or both may be anxiety prone.

• In many parts of India the question of dowry or promised dowry becomes a bone of contention and a point of wrangling between the spouse. The situation may be further worsened or aggravated by needless interference from in- laws.
• There are highly competent wives who may make the husband feel small. They are indiscriminate, insensitive and do not exercise caution in hurting fragile male vanity. The husband may retaliate to cover up feelings of inferiority by showing his physical of inferiority by showing his physical power and aggression
• Extra marital relations by either spouse or promiscuity.
• Doubting the integrity/ character of spouse ( by either spouse)

In present days, 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 aggrieved parties. This gave rise to introduction of family courts and the concept of Family Counselling Centres.

Objective:

i)To provide professional services like crisis intervention, independent inquiry in dowry death cases and counselling in family maladjustment.

ii)To make efforts for reconciliation in the cases of separation and out of the court settlement in marital cases.

iii)To provide referral services like short stay homes, free legal aids police assistance etc.

iv)To make the counselling services available in short stay homes, remand homes, orphanages, drug de- addiction centers, old age homes, Shelter home, prisons, schools for gifted children’s etc.

v)To educate and mobilize public opinion against social problems.

vi)To educate and impart information regarding social welfare activities aided & undertaken by various Governmental and non-governmental agencies for better condensation and services to the people.

vii)To arrange for suitable rehabilitation services for the victims and their dependents.

viii) To provide crisis intervention services to deal with any problem of the individual within the family work place or in the community

ix) To provide Social awareness to community and identified the social problem and try to solved of counselling process.

Activity:

·      Registration of cases at the centre.

·      Collection of facts about the cases.

·      Correspondence with the persons of the party involved in the cases.

·      Promoting mutual Settlement.

·      Initiating the legal steps as and when required.

·      Medical assistance mostly to redress psychological disorders and other psychosomatic imbalances.

·      Rehabilitation of the clients including temporary shelter.

 Achievements

of F.C.C: for the year 2021-22(1st April, 2021 to 31^st March 2022)

“I tell you one thing. If you want peace
of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults.
Learn to make the whole world your own.

No one is a stranger, my child; this whole
world is your own.”

— Sarada Devi