Family therapy

and recovery maintenance, Family Therapy seems to be the more suitable recovery strategy compared to Individual Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; when Individual Therapy and Cognitive Therapy are compared, there appears to be no significant difference in outcomes and recovery rates between these two treatments. However, when the two recovery strategies are compared in terms of their relapse rates, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy transcends over Individual Therapy; Pike et al. maintain…

In Structural Family Therapy, an intervention that the therapist would apply to the next counseling session would be to examine the invisible rules in the family that governs their function; the therapist would examine all the crossed, ignored, distorted boundaries that the family has in their familial structure (Bitter, 2014). Enactments are another intervention that would help families to form clearer boundaries (Gehart, 2015). This would help Jeanie and her family because it would prevent her…

Family Therapy is a process that many families have to go through at some point in time in life. Normally it’s because the busyness of our daily lives get to us and weigh us down. Which normally leads to many problems within the family. The therapy options are Psychodynamic Approach, Bowen Family Systems Theory, Person Centered Approach, and Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy. Each these theories work best in their own way based on the situation at hand. The first one is Psychodynamic Approach…

population among the Iranian people. Providing service to this population through therapy can really support this group, though with Strategic Family Therapy it would do no benefit. Based on how this therapy focuses on the “here and now”, this population must be helped using other methods of therapy to provide provision. Depression seems to be one of the most problematic issue among Iranian population and Strategic Family Therapy can have the solution for assisting this matter. For this next…

It is very important for family therapists to be familiar with popular children culture so that they can involve children in family therapy. This is so because children use themes and ideas that they see in different forms of media to make meaning of things that are occurring around them and within themselves. Disney films come in handy during family therapy because it allows the therapist to involve children by referring to Disney movies that they would know or be interested in. This would…

Keeping Children Involved in Family Therapy Children who live in healthy environments know and expect that their basic needs will be met. For example, a child knows that a parent will give him or her food when hungry. Even a baby learns that crying will result in the end of discomfort from a wet diaper. Their world and those in it serve to meet their needs and frequently their wants. What children learn and know about the people in their lives is contingent upon their caregivers and the…

In this article, Roselyne Kattar (2011), goes into details on the eleven defining principles of strategic family therapy (STF). She states that STF focuses on present observable behavioral interaction and uses deliberate intervention to change the ongoing system. The goal is to work from an interactional point of view while reframing the family dynamics. SFT is brief with ten sessions that last about three months. The eleven defining principles are listed below: 1. Reality is constructed:…

Family therapy has always presented itself as a treatment for people within the framework of their environment, and this standard has been considered the pragmatic expression of guidance upon family relationships (Nichols, 2016). Today, counselors remain receptive to the need to understand the ethnic experience of their client’s family, so incorrect suppositions are not formulated just because the clients are from a diverse culture. Structural Family therapy provides a comprehensive framework…

Summary of Case This family consists of BJ (65), Jing (40), Paige (16), and Sunny (14). BJ is Jing’s father, and he recently moved in with Jing and her two children. Initially Jing came in for individually therapy; however, because her stress and depression seemed so related to difficulties going on at home, the whole family decided to start therapy. The intake mentioned that BJ’s wife died eight months ago, and that he moved in with Jing and her children six weeks ago. It also mentioned that…

Three wide schools of family therapy can be recognised within the systems literature including systemic, strategic and structural (Holmes, 2014). At first, the feature of structural family therapy curtails from methods of observation within the interactive pattern of the family. For once the baseline action can be assumed as the contributing factor towards the problems of structural approach that seek out to highlight these, interject them when it is taking place, and the family to rebuild them…