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Ian
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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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James Constantine Frangos
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Hey there, Ian!
Family therapy is a special kind of counseling that's all about making family relationships better. It's designed to help everyone in the family understand each other more clearly, get along better, and work as a team to overcome any problems or challenges that pop up.
How well family therapy works can depend on a lot of things, like what kind of problems the family is dealing with, how willing everyone is to join in and work hard, how good the therapist is, and how dedicated the family is to making positive changes. Success in family therapy isn't just about fixing every problem, but also about improving how the family talks to each other, understands each other, and works together.
Family therapy isn't a one-size-fits-all deal. Therapists usually tweak their approach to fit the unique needs and dynamics of each family. But there are a few main methods that therapists often use:
1. Structural Family Therapy: This method is all about spotting and reshaping the ways family members interact with each other. The therapist helps the family set up clear boundaries, hierarchies, and roles to make things run more smoothly.
2. Strategic Family Therapy: This method focuses on creating specific plans or tasks that are designed to bring about positive changes in the family. The therapist might give instructions or suggest actions for family members to do outside of therapy sessions.
3. Systemic Family Therapy: This method looks at family problems as parts of a bigger picture that includes things like culture, society, or extended family. The therapist helps identify these bigger influences and works with the family to make positive changes.
There are also other methods like narrative therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, and emotionally focused therapy. These can be used on their own or mixed together, depending on what the therapist thinks the family needs.
It's important to remember that family therapy is a team effort that needs everyone in the family to participate and commit. Success often depends on family members being willing to look at themselves, communicate openly, and try out new ways of doing things outside of therapy sessions.
When it comes to how often family therapy works, research shows that it can be really helpful in making family relationships better and dealing with a range of issues like marital conflicts, parent-child problems, substance abuse, and mental health disorders. But it's hard to give an exact success rate because results can vary a lot depending on the specific situation and people involved.
Top 3 Trusted Reference Sources:
1. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) - www.aamft.org
2. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - www.drugabuse.gov
3. American Psychological Association (APA) - www.apa.org
Family therapy is a special kind of counseling that's all about making family relationships better. It's designed to help everyone in the family understand each other more clearly, get along better, and work as a team to overcome any problems or challenges that pop up.
How well family therapy works can depend on a lot of things, like what kind of problems the family is dealing with, how willing everyone is to join in and work hard, how good the therapist is, and how dedicated the family is to making positive changes. Success in family therapy isn't just about fixing every problem, but also about improving how the family talks to each other, understands each other, and works together.
Family therapy isn't a one-size-fits-all deal. Therapists usually tweak their approach to fit the unique needs and dynamics of each family. But there are a few main methods that therapists often use:
1. Structural Family Therapy: This method is all about spotting and reshaping the ways family members interact with each other. The therapist helps the family set up clear boundaries, hierarchies, and roles to make things run more smoothly.
2. Strategic Family Therapy: This method focuses on creating specific plans or tasks that are designed to bring about positive changes in the family. The therapist might give instructions or suggest actions for family members to do outside of therapy sessions.
3. Systemic Family Therapy: This method looks at family problems as parts of a bigger picture that includes things like culture, society, or extended family. The therapist helps identify these bigger influences and works with the family to make positive changes.
There are also other methods like narrative therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, and emotionally focused therapy. These can be used on their own or mixed together, depending on what the therapist thinks the family needs.
It's important to remember that family therapy is a team effort that needs everyone in the family to participate and commit. Success often depends on family members being willing to look at themselves, communicate openly, and try out new ways of doing things outside of therapy sessions.
When it comes to how often family therapy works, research shows that it can be really helpful in making family relationships better and dealing with a range of issues like marital conflicts, parent-child problems, substance abuse, and mental health disorders. But it's hard to give an exact success rate because results can vary a lot depending on the specific situation and people involved.
Top 3 Trusted Reference Sources:
1. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) - www.aamft.org
2. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - www.drugabuse.gov
3. American Psychological Association (APA) - www.apa.org
Dr. Conni Rush
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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.
Bailey Schweiter
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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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