What Do Family Therapists Do by Happy Couples Healthy Communities

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FAMILY THERAPY

Family: like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.

WHAT DO FAMILY THERAPISTS DO?

Family therapy is about understanding and intervening effectively in relationships. It considers both individual and relational realities.

Talk about each person’s hopes for their family. Encourage everyone in the family to talk about their experiences, and to listen to everyone else.

Respect and clarify each person’s beliefs, values,

Help families to stop blaming each

needs, hopes and

other and to begin exploring how

assumptions to help them

everyone can work together to make

understand each other

things better.

better.

Help people to understand the effect their words and actions have on

Explore what each person in

everyone else in the family.

the family does well, and what they are most proud of.

Draw a kind of family tree, called a genogram, to help people think about the different relationships in their family.

Help families to talk about the challenges they are facing.

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Support families as they work towards their own goals.


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