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It wasn't until the 1950s that therapists began treating psychological problems in the context of the family.

Relationship counseling as a discrete, professional service is thus a recent phenomenon.

Until the late 20th century, the work of relationship counseling was informally fulfilled by close friends, family members, or local religious leaders.

Psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors and social workers have historically dealt primarily with individual psychological problems in a medical and psychoanalytic framework.

In many less technologically advanced cultures around the world today, the institution of family, the village or group elders fulfil the work of relationship counseling.

Today marriage mentoring mirrors those cultures.