Family therapy

The Family Life Cycle Understanding the family life cycle is an essential part of couples and family counseling. As individuals grow and build their lives, the family life cycle dynamic changes. With each stage of life, different conflicts and challenges arise whether in a relationship or family (Laureate Education, 2008). The family life cycle begins with the individual and spirals through generations (Ferguson, 1979). By understanding the influences in one’s life cycle, counselors can begin…

Bowenian family therapy? The theoretical underpinnings of Bowenian family therapy are Differenation one’s self from origin of family, triangles, sibling position, emotional cut off, and societal environment pressures. Differenation is learning to separate self from family. According to Bowen(1978) “It has long been recognized that emotional attachment between the spouses is identical to the emotional attachment that each spouse had in his or her family of origin” (p. 530). Triangles is a family…

During the first stage of Strategic family therapy, the therapist makes sure to greet and interacts with all family members. In therapy this could be done using an open ended question. “Tell me a little about yourselves and what brings you all in today?” After saying that statement I would ask Kay to go first since she is the mother and not involved as much in Renee’s life as Brenda is involved. During the second stage the therapist’s main focus is to clarify the presenting problem. When…

1. Choose two techniques or approaches often employed in family/couple therapy and compare them. Your answer must include differences between the two interventions you chose in terms of “the focus of intervention” and “how to treat.” • Unbalancing  Unbalancing is when the therapist deliberately sides with a less powerful member or sub-system of the family, thereby unbalancing the family. This forces the family to restructure. Places emphasis on the realignment of relationships in subsystems.…

that is not always the case. A large number of school-aged children experience stress. And that is detrimental for their emotional and physical well-being. If your child is stressed and needs help, Las Vegas family therapy may be the answer. How Family Therapy Can Help a Child's Stress Therapy can help your child in a number of ways. It encourages your child to face his or her fears. Avoiding a fear actually maintains or increases stress levels. Facing a fear and dealing with it teaches a…

study, family therapy was conducted in three phases. The first phase consists of the therapist assessing the family’s interactions, enhancing cooperation among family members, and discussing how physical force affects a family as well as explaining a non-violence contract for the family (Kolko, 1996). The second phase is made up of the therapist training the family members on problem-solving and communication skills (Kolko, 1996). The last phase consisted of establishing problem-solving family…

The Williams who are an African-American family consisting of Tyrone (husband, 38 years old) Marlena (wife, 37years old), Myeiesha (daughter, 20 years old) are seeking counseling to address Myeisha’s addiction the narcotics. Myeiesha lost her college scholarship for track after the coach found evidence of illegal drugs I her locker. Tyrone who is the oldest of three males was raised by a single mother who was addicted to crack cocaine, she died in his last year of high school. He is estranged…

Working with the family has become one of my interested groups to work with in the future since the first day of Clinical Skills C class with specified family therapy. One of the vignettes, that we did the role-play in class was Hernandez family. I decided to do the comparison between two theories, Structural Family Therapy and Bowen Intergenerational Therapy, by working with this family. This family are Hispanic, and their presenting problem is lack of communication, especially with the…

one is diagnosed with a disorder both a child and parent should be able to receive treatment. Stressors in a family such as violence, divorce, poverty, and neglect can all cause emotional trauma in children that leads to disorders such as depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, and many more. An unstable home life is not something that can be cured through the child, but through the family dimension. All children deserve a place they that they can feel safe and make their own, which is why we…

Conducting a family assessment allows a family to identify their strengths and areas of improvement. Generally speaking, it is normal for an individual to feel some kind of resentment if he or she is the sole individual caring her a parent The familial dispute surrounds who is going to be responsible for the caring of my father. Romika is also the sole individual paying for issues around the house as she lives in the home with our father. In clinical practice, the help of a social worker could…