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What would you say is your success rate for family therapy? Is there a set approach for every situation to some degree or do you come up with a different tactic for every unique situation?

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Dr. Conni’s Answer

This is a great question that has a complicated answer because it is hard to define success There are no perfect answers to this but there are some that many counselors see as important. The first is to make a strong relationship with the client. The relationship is key to good therapy. I always ask clients what they would like to be different when counseling is over. This helps to define goals that they want to work toward. It is important to know a variety of theories and techniques because you will need different ones for each client. Most counselors combine many theories into their own to understand how people change. Everyone learns differently and part of the skill of being a counselor is being able to identify this for your client. The thing that makes counseling very difficult is that you can not tell how well you are doing by whether or not the client meets their goals or changes in the way they want.
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Bailey’s Answer

Though I’m not a therapist, I am an empath who has been attended her fair share of therapy. I study psychology & behavioral health in my spare time to better my ability to understand natural psychologically based human behavior & the emotions associated with them. Feeling everyone else’s feelings as well as my own can be very confusing at times. Everyone is so unique, each with incredible complexities that create so many different situations in our lives it’s hard to even fathom the possibilities of where life will take us. That said, it makes it quite difficult to use a standard approach with everyone. You have to be able to adapt with each client based on his, hers or their mental health needs, past traumas and triggers as well as their way of thinking, learning & understanding. A great baseline that allows you many options of tools to choose from for each client can be found in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Dialectal behavioral therapy (DBT). There’s a website (psychologytools.com) that has a ton of information on all aspects or these approaches. You have to pay for the website but you get 5 free downloads in their trial period if you’d like, plus you can learn a lot from the descriptions of each handout. Another options is to check the links to the sited sources refer to at the bottom of many pages on the site as a way of getting the information for free. I hope this helps answer your question in some way. The mind is a powerful thing if nurtured in the way each of us needs.

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