Other important treatment goals of family therapy

Other important treatment goals of family therapy may include:    Restructuring maladaptive relationships and interactional family styles Strengthening and/or changing family problem-solving behaviors Changing dysfunctional transactional patterns between members Preventing and/or undoing triangulation Establishing appropriate family roles, rules and boundaries Helping the children understand and appreciate the value and importance of maintaining positive and compassionate… Read More Other important treatment goals of family therapy

Teletherapy and telepsychiatry

Teletherapy and telepsychiatry are mental telehealth services that use videotelephony (like Zoom), phone calls or other messaging systems to facilitate communication between mental health professionals and their patients. Several studies suggest partnering with a capable, trained mental health professional virtually can provide a similarly successful outcome to in-person visits.  https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/telepsychiatry-vs-teletherapy/

Family-system therapy principles

Normal personalities are inner-family systems of semi-in-dependent subselves or “parts.” Experience suggests that using family-system therapy principles with subselves is often effective at reducing a wide range of personal and some physical problems. A basic premise here is that when one or more adults’ inner families are out of harmony, their relation-ships and outer families have “major problems.”   6 PSYCHOLOGICAL… Read More Family-system therapy principles

Family Systems Therapy

A system is a set of related elements that interact dynamically with each other and the environment, and have identifiable properties. The key elements of a family system are its members + beliefs + roles + rules + assets + limitations + goals + boundaries + subsystems (e.g. siblings) + environment – a larger system of systems, or metasystem. Understanding these elements… Read More Family Systems Therapy