Family therapy is centered on the family system and the changes that can be made in the system of family. The individual patient member is affected by the whole family member and a symptom of a sick family system.
Since 1950 there has been a tendency...
Family therapy is centered on the family system and the changes that can be made in the system of family. The individual patient member is affected by the whole family member and a symptom of a sick family system.
Since 1950 there has been a tendency to see an individual symptom exists in family dysfunction. It was the same time when the definition of family in ecological view is the system of interaction between family members for the growth and development of its members.
There are many techniques of family therapy and also are lots of theorists of their own viewpoints.
Ackerman saw the family as a system of interacting personalities; each individual was an important subsystem within the family, just as the family as a subsystem within the community.
A key figure in the development of family therapy, Bowen's theory of the family as an emotional relationship system consists of eight interlocking concepts; differentiation of self, triangles, nuclear family emotional system, family projection process, emotional cutoff, multigenerational transmission process, sibling positions, societal regression.
Minuchin devised many of the brief, direct, actionoriented intervention procedures for restructing the family that he later brought to the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, where he was director from 1965 to 1975. Minuchin emphasizes the active, organized wholeness flu the family unit. More specifically, he addresses the rigid, repetitive sequences and habits by which some families organize themselves and then, by deliberately "unfreezing" these patterns, creates an opportunity for the family to reorganize itself and substitute new strwctures and transactional patterns. Generally, this therapeutic effort involves a push for clearer boundaries, increased flexibility family interactions, and most important, modification of the dysfunctional structure.
Satir with Jackson, Haley is one of the communication/interaction theorist, all be havior is communication; just as it is impossible not to behave, so communication cannot be avoided.
The treatment of maladjustive children must be helped by the whole family members, especially parent. Because the symptom of the child is the sign of the sickness of a whole family, not his own, The objective of this thesis is to study the family therapy and it must be applied to the treatment and Prevention of children's problems.
Family therapy is the shortest way of the child welfare and human welfare.