Family Therapy and its Benefits

Family therapy

We all start this life with family,
when we are little, family is all we know. 

The family that we acquire when we born influences every aspects of our life. The people we are surrounded by, the way we live, the rules we are taught, the way we talked. All of this forms the base of what we will in future a better person or a worse person. We learn our habits, customs, and rituals and how to view the world around us.
Beside all that we also learn how to maintain social relations, love people and manage relationships. We all learn these things from our family.
If we are born in family that taught us to maintain healthy relationships, we will able to make good social circle in future.
If we are born in family that does not taught us how to make good social interactions, then we may struggle to connect with people in future.
For this purpose, family therapy offers families a way to develop and maintain healthy relationships.

Family Therapy

Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy that can help family members to improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Family therapy is usually provided by psychologists, clinical social worker or a therapist. This family therapy is usually short term.  It may include all the family members or just those members who are able to participate. Its purpose is to use families’ strengths and resources to find ways to live without substance use. It also enhance the impact of chemical dependency on both individual and family.

Specific treatment is given according to family situation. Therapists conduct sessions study the dynamics and teach family to make deep connections with their family members.

Family Therapy Techniques

Family therapy uses a range of counseling techniques. There are six widely used family therapy techniques. These are:
     

·        Structural Therapy

·        Communication Therapy

·        Trans generational Therapy

·        Systemic Therapy

·        Strategic Therapy

·        Narrative Therapy

What you can expect during family therapy?

A Therapist conduct a session and brings family members together, which is called family therapy. A family member may also see a family therapist individually. Family therapy is short term session of about 50 minutes to one hour. It generally takes 11 sessions and may be increased depends upon family’s particular situation.

You can observe three major things during the session:

 Examine the strength of your family to solve problems and make decisions.

           Examine the love and care that your family is expressing during session. which is difficult for them to show in normal days.     

     Examine family rules and behavior patterns to identify the conflict.

Benefits of Family Therapy

·        It develops and maintains healthy boundaries between parents, children and grandparents.

·        They can learn their strengths and weaknesses together. Enhanced good communication between family members.

·        Discuss feelings about particular issues that the family has been dealing with and come to solutions. Helps to reduce conflict between family members

·        Build empathy, love and care for each other.

·        Improved problem solving skill of individuals

·        Gain better parent child and grandparent grandchild communication.

·        Develop clear perspective of how a family functions, and each person’s role.

·        Increased self-esteem of children’s. Better helps the patient who is suffering from mental health issue by getting attention from the family.


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