All You Need to Know About Family Therapy

1. All You Need to Know About Family Therapy www.energeticsinstitute.com.au/family-therapy-perth

2. What is Family Therapy? • Almost anyone who has a mental illness sees its effects on and from their family members. • family conflicts provoke stress and can exacerbate mental disorders • family members can enable harmful behaviour patterns • individuals with mental disorders might seek (or reject) support from family • family experiences shape the way people view their world • Family therapy is a branch of counselling that treats mental disorders and mental health not simply as an individual issue but in the context of the whole family.

3. Types of Family Therapy • There are many different ways to help families cope with mental illness, handle everyday stress and achieve stronger relationships and mental well-being. Family therapists use various techniques, either alone or in combination, to heal family rifts, help families cope, and provide a more robust family support structure for people with mental illness.

4. Psycho-Education • Psychoeducationuses teaching to help family members address mental health issues more constructively. Family members often misunderstand the nature of their loved ones’ mental conditions, which can lead to: • ostracism • blame • manipulative behaviour • frustration • low self-worth • Suppose a family therapist finds that the family’s understanding of mental illness does not match our current scientific view of mental illness. In that case, they might create structured interventions to teach family members how to cope with and respond to mental illness in more productive ways.

5. Teaching Coping Skills • A significant source of stress and trigger for negative family interactions is a feeling of frustration or helplessness in the face of a mental health issue. Consider a child who has a learning disability or behaviour disorder. Parents might lash out at the child, or vice-versa because neither the child nor the parents know any better ways to deal with the issue.

6. Behavioural Models • Different approaches to family therapy draw upon different conceptual frameworks in their approach to family therapy. For example, some approaches might focus more on family members’ thoughts, beliefs, and understanding. In contrast, other models focus on positive and negative behaviours that clients and family members exhibit when they interact with one another.

7. Systemic Models • Systemic models in family therapy focus on how the different family members relate to each other. In systemic family therapy, the therapist strives to be a neutral mediator between family members, helping to guide the family as a whole toward a more positive and productive dynamic.

8. Structural Family Therapy • Structural Family Therapy aims to create, reinforce, and develop structures within the family that promote healthy development and interaction. In comparison with systemic family therapy, the therapist plays a more active than a facilitative role in structural family therapy. The therapist teaches family members to respect boundaries and ensures that every family member has a voice and a constructive role within the family structure.

9. Post Milan Family Therapy • The post-Milan approach to family therapy developed as an outgrowth of the Milan school. It adopts a more postmodern approach. Rather than directly question the family and provoke change through questioning, a post-Milan family therapist will try to help the family develop its own questions and formulate its own ideas about how the family works.

10. Solution-Focused Therapy • Other therapies focus on the behavioural symptoms of family conflict and mental illness or promote structures of family organization that nurture positive family dynamics. Solution-focused therapy does not dwell on the causes of problems but adopts a hopeful attitude and focuses on the future.

11. When Is Family Therapy Required? • It is an excellent idea to pursue family therapy if family relationships play an essential role in the manifestation and treatment of mental illness and the achievement of long-term psychological well-being. The active involvement of the family is vital in family therapy, so it is important to encourage family members to be open to the concept before starting a course of family therapy.

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