Family Therapy - Some Basic Guidelines - By: Gancho Shefa

If it the definition of family therapy has somehow escaped you, let us first define it in this article : family therapy is the therapeutic approach Family therapy has been vastly ignored in the past, but has now taken a crucial role in how people attempt in which families attempt to solve the problems they’re experiencing with the help of a psychotherapist. to modify problematic areas of their lives, specifically ones in the family. It’s very important to know that family therapy can solve a lot of problems, but that cannot happen without the help of all of the participants.

As you’ve figured out already, in family therapy more than one patient needs to be present at the time of the session. This is not only a detail , but rather a significant change in how family therapy is performed , because if there is no “identified patient” as the therapists say, the whole way of how the therapy works is more oriented towards analyzing patterns of communication. In family therapy , another vital aspect is the fact that problems are not attributed to a single individual, but rather treated as an overall problem of the family. This can help solve a lot of issues.

There are many theorists which we can link to the development of family therapy and its most basic theoretical foundations – Virginia Saltir, Salvador Minuchin and Milton Erickson are just a few of them. But as there are many different theorists, there are many different practitioners of family therapy, each with his personal preference and idea of how you should perform therapy and which approach is better. For family therapy, some of the most basic approaches are structural, conjoint and strategic.

The structural approach deals with the process of family therapy by dividing the families into subsystems and dealing with smaller pieces of the whole.
The conjoint approach to family therapy on the other hand , explores the family as different people with their own “roles” and the ways they interact with each other to make a whole. By analyzing that, the therapist is capable of identifying certain ways to help the family in need.

The strategic approach is rather more event-driven, in the sense that it considers events that reshape the family most crucial and important. In the strategic approach it is also common for the therapist to set some rules and targets with which to help the communication between the individuals. The whole idea is that if the members of the family attempt to change the way they behave, if even for a day, they’ll be capable of doing more radical changes that will benefit them in the future.

Don’t be afraid , or hesitant, or ashamed of going to family therapy. That will help you make a safe haven out of your family house and be less stressed in at least one place, which is, frankly, a very good option , having in mind the stressful and extremely psychologically hostile environmentswe live in today.

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I drew most of the information for this article from a Danish site, where they referred to it as nyttige parterapi københavn. If you don't know Danish, here's an English resource

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