Family Systems Therapy and Interventions
A family systems framework provides a way to assess, intervene and set treatment goals. The individual is not the problem - the problem is the problem. Family members respond to stressful events based on the ecology of the family, as well as individual ecology. Family counseling may include parent support groups, parent education, and parent training. Choose 1 family-based intervention and discuss the intervention and how change is effected within the family.
The family systems framework is a realistic and viable way to view the problems of troubled children and adolescents. All children and adolescents live in a montage of overlapping systems: families, schools, neighborhoods, communities, and the nation. Family counselors address the family as a system, in order to change dysfunctional patterns of behavior and communication. Why is systemic change necessary for lasting family and individual functioning?