FAMILY THERAPY

Family therapy through Personal Application



Family therapy through Personal Application

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and discuss the concepts of family therapy in holistic manner. This paper also focuses on the methods, procedures and tactics involved in family therapy to cure the family issues of individuals. In addition, this paper analyzes three scenarios and strives to provide effective consulting advice through which the issues can be resolved. Family therapy is a way of solving problems in the family or couple with the help of a therapist. The couples facing family issues are not limited to a particular relation; these couples can be husband and wife, parent and child, mother-in-law and son-in etc. The treatment through family therapy involves a consulting session of therapy. There are at least 3 people involved in this session: the therapist (one or two) and the couple facing family problems (two or more). Family therapy is responsible for solving the issues between the family members that can severely affect the harmony inside family. This therapy cures couples who want to save their marriages, improve family relationships, solve sexual problems, betrayal issues and the issues that may lead to divorce. In some of the cases family therapy involves two therapists, a man and a woman.

Family Therapy has emerged as a preferred treatment approach for adolescent behavior problems. Despite positive treatment outcomes, there is still a gap between research and practice and an incomplete understanding of how to successfully disseminate evidence-based family programs into every day clinical practice. Many researchers have attributed adolescent problem behaviors to a number of risk factors including individual, family, peer, school, and neighborhood factors; therefore treatment approaches should be broadened to include the important relational contexts and salient subsystems in which adolescents' problematic behaviors tend to develop and are expressed.

The purpose of adapting such procedure is supported by a strong reason. This procedure is implemented in scenarios that involve opposite genders. The involvement of opposite genders is usually realized in marital and dating relationships. Nevertheless, it is not limited to those particular scenarios as the therapists involved in the procedure are involved to understand the point of views of male and female. The therapist involved in family therapy helps the couple to explore the ways of interaction in relationships in order to solving the issues by eliminating the communication gap. This is the decision that has first priority by the therapists because there are multiple family issues that can be easily solved though proper communication. The family issues often create communication gap between the individuals comprising the couple; hence, family therapy attempts to remove the communication barriers as it is the easiest approach to resolve the particular issues.

Discussion

The bulk of family therapy protocols and systemic interventions that have been evaluated in controlled trials have been developed within the cognitive, behavioral, and structural therapeutic traditions. More trials are required to evaluate the effectiveness of postmodern social-constructionist and narrative approaches to family therapy that is very widely used ...