Family Therapy
Family Therapy
Families can make or break us. They can be our greatest source of inspiration and also our greatest cause of misery and pain.
Many people have shared that they have felt alone, although they live in a family unit.
Family Therapy – A Branch of Psychotherapy
Family therapy is a comprehensive area of psychotherapy which encompasses multiple specialization areas at once. Hence, it is important to pick a family therapist whom is familiar with, and have experience across multi-disciplines or areas in psychotherapy.
At JL Counselling and Hypnotherapy Singapore, we are equipped and have over 21 years of experience in the following multi-disciplinarian areas:
- Alcohol, Drug, Gambling and Substance Abuse
- Behavioural Problems (childhood, adolescence, adulthood)
- Bereavement, Grieving and Loss
- Conflicts (Intergenerational, Marital,
- Depression and Anxiety
- Domestic Violence and Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Major Life Transitions
- Mental Health Disorders
- LGBTQ issues
- Suicide Ideation and Self-Harm
- Trauma
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Family therapy is unique:
- Change takes place in the systems of interaction between family members
- Is focused on how family members relate, rather than the problem or issue itself
- Family therapist usually meets several members of the family at the same time
- Observation of both the spoken and unspoken between interaction of family members is applied
- Identify sources of conflict by observing and capturing information (from an independent and unbiased lens) on patterns of interaction amongst family members. As these patterns are hard-wired behaviours, family members may not have noticed these behaviours before (unconscious) or find themselves in a repetitive loop of regurgitating the same issues without resolution.
- Problems encountered can be mental, emotional or psychological, or a combination of one or more elements.
- Concept of family includes strongly supportive, long-term roles and relationships between individuals who may or may not be related by blood or marriage.
- Can include mixed families (from merged families, adoptive families, foster families)
Depending on the complexity of the issues encountered by the family system and the response and integration time of each individual family member and cohesively as a family unit, the average number of sessions is between 5 to 20 sessions.
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Family Therapy is Suited For:
- Families who have specific issues they would like to address, which are affecting the health and functioning of the family
- Families going through a difficult period or there has been a major transition (death in the family, major illness, job loss, infertility, debt, depression, mental health disorders, alcoholism, substance abuse, see below)
- Families whom are facing mental or behavioural health problems from a particular family member or several family members at once (self-harm and suicide ideation, domestic violence and abuse, emotional and psychological abuse, anti-social behaviours, serious mental health disorders)
- Families whom need help understanding and transitioning through gender based matters (LGBTQ) and deviations from social norms (unmarried parents, same gender parents)
- Families whom are in conflict over children and matters arising from the upbringing of children which can include conflicts surrounding religious choices, preferences in cultural choices (bi-racial parents) or racial issues (preference and conflicts over one race against another race)
- Intergenerational family feuds and cross-generational (grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren) family conflicts and families living together under the same roof
- Preferential or biased treatment (favourite child/ golden child syndrome, favoured parent, unhealthy obsession and reliance towards one family member over others, scapegoating see below).
- Reversed parental roles where children become the caretaker, caregiver and take on the parental role.
- Bullying and harassment within a family unit where a family member is targeted and being made a scapegoat (black sheep syndrome, undermined constantly, being made to take the blame and fall for everything that goes wrong, credit not given where it should or deserved, proposal for decisions are thrown out, being shamed in front of the children, re-hashing past mistakes to guilt a family member into making a decision which is not to his/her best self-interest without taking into consideration their thoughts and emotions and using other forms of coercion such as threats of suicide or emotional blackmail to get their way)
Core Values in a Thriving Family System
- Effective Communication
- Listening and Being Heard
- Effort
- Understanding
- Compromise
- Harmony
- Healthy Boundaries
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