Family Therapy (or Family Counseling) is a form of psychotherapy that involves multiple family members working together to resolve conflict, improve communication, and address issues affecting the family unit.
Key Points:
- Approaches:
- Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin): Focuses on family organization, subsystems, and boundaries.
- Strategic Family Therapy (Haley, Madanes): Uses planned interventions and problem-focused strategies to disrupt negative cycles.
- Bowenian Family Therapy (Bowen): Emphasizes understanding multigenerational patterns and differentiation.
- Goals: Strengthening communication, clarifying family roles, reducing distress, and building support.
- Applications: Effective for addressing issues like parenting conflicts, mental illness within the family, substance abuse, grief, and more.
