Personal Approach On Family Therapy

My personal and educational experiences have influenced my desire in pursuing my degree in Marriage & Family Therapy. My last semester of college, I was interning at Care Fresno. During this time, I lived in a high crime apartment located in southeast Fresno. I was able to reach out and mentor at risk families. This experience has equipped me with skills, such as: be able to empathize, communicate, and lead other effectively. After I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree, I started working as a Drug & Alcohol Counselor at Aegis Treatment Centers. While at Aegis Treatment Centers, I realized how much I enjoy providing empathy, psycho-educating, and teaching individuals how to cope with their emotions.

Family Therapy can be implemented in a different ways in a program that provides a facet of services, but it’s imperative that the approaches used are appropriate for the individual or families utilizing services. Functional Family Therapy is used to help deal with substance abuse in families but can also be used to assist with behavioral issues in children. A well rounded family service program can not only use this one approach but utilize other approaches to meet the needs of the population being served. And while implementing the service ethics will play a major role in the therapy being providing.

Family is something that plays a tremendous role in our life. Even though the structure of families has changed over the years, it is important to acknowledge that there many families out there whether they are traditional families, nuclear family, stepfamilies or others which tend to have different types of problems in their families. Therefore, many families attempt to go to family therapy in order for them to obtain help in solving the different types of issues they might have at home. As stated in the book Family Therapy by Michael P. Nichols (2013), “The power of family therapy derives from bringing parents and children together to transform their interaction… What keeps people stuck in their inability to see their own participation in the problems that plague them. With eyes fixed firmly on what recalcitrant others are doing, it’s hard for most people to see the patterns that bind them together. The family therapist’s job is to give them a wake-up call” (2013).

Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy employed to assist members of a family in improving communication systems, conflict resolution, and to help the family to deal with certain problems that manifest in the behavior of members. In most cases, deviance in a family member is an indication of underlying family dysfunctions. This paper looks the counselling procedure that can be applied to help the Kline family solve their problems. It answers certain questions including those of the expected challenges during therapy and ways of dealing with the challenges.

Therapists work different theoretical perspectives to meet the client’s diverse needs. The object is to offer verbal and nonverbal, expressive therapies, such as Narrative, Solution-Focused and Brief Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy. The concept is to take into account the therapist preferences and the issues that the therapist would like to approach for the client’s best needs. Therapist can integrate different orientations to guide the client.

Solution-focused brief therapy contends that people are equipped with the skills to create change in their lives, though they may need help in refining and identifying those skills. Similarly, SFBT recognizes that people already know, on some level, what change is needed in their lives, and SFBT practitioners help clients to clarify their goals. In particular, the therapist will help the client to identify a time in life when the present problem was either less detrimental or more manageable, and evaluate what factors were different or what solutions may have been present at that time.

This clinician met with the patient, and his mother to engage in a family therapy session to discuss and develop a safe and stable discharge plan. The patient's mother reports "he really loves us". She reports she is concerned about the patient driving his vehicle upon discharge. She reports prior to admission she "took his keys" for safety purposes and he became physically aggressive due to wanting to drive his vehicle. She reports she completed paperwork and is awaiting a Medicaid hearing. She reports no date has been provided yet. She reports the patient was not consuming his psychotropic medication approximately two months prior to admission. She reports she advocated for his discharge from Duke Hospital because she was not aware his mental

Strategic Family Therapist is one of which the therapist is the teacher and the client is the student (Bitter, 2014). Developing a therapeutic relationship with the client is not the goal. The therapist is concerned with asking questions to establish the reason for therapy and then make suggestions or directives (Bitter, 2014).

There are several types of therapy for Somatic Systems disorder. The first step, for a

emotions with their current awareness. It is important to remember that this phase hinges on someone’s ability to tolerate discomfort of reviewing the memories in order to process their trauma.

In our modernized world today, with more technology, social media, cell phones, we as counselors are faced with a world of more communication issues among families, couples, teenager with their parents, teenagers with their teachers, and elders, than any other time in history. Our credibility in this field and professional role are ever updating our research information, data base cases studies, and seeking new treatment to equate our constant changes in our society. Despite the new ideas of changes, some methods for treatment in the world of counseling remain open to revise certain formats and criteria’s that have worked successfully in mending the current demands. Therefore, “as our society continues to undergo major cultural shifts toward becoming more secularized, Christian counselors in particular are in unique positions to point out how societal pressures and trends might affect Christian families that we serve.”

Background To the Dean of Admission, California State University Long Beach from Mayra Hernandez. I am a college graduate with bachelors in psychology, also in the process of becoming certified as a drug and alcohol counselor. My goal is to become an expert in the field of behavioral mental health. I am Hispanic and was raised by immigrant parents who valued the family structure and had high aspirations for their children. Although lacking a formal education, my parents gifted me with experiential knowledge of family systems of the sociocultural factors that influence one’s psychology.

What I learned about myself that is that I am capable of understanding and grasping different concepts in family therapy. In addition, I learned that I am not as comfortable with experiencing my personal feelings about certain topics. What I learned about my family from these journals is how open some members of family would be to discussing their issues. In addition, I learned how each individual family member has his or her own problems. For instance, some of family members have either psychological or emotional problems that would benefit from the different therapy styles that were presented in the book. I also learned more about family history and structure from these journal exercises.

As a young female pursuing a master’s degree in mental health counseling, I have devoted countless hours to my studies and programs in order to provide the highest standard of care to my patients. As an intern at an acute crisis stabilization center, I conduct mental health assessments, develop individualized treatment plans, and lead individual and group therapy sessions. The program has allowed me to apply my skills and knowledge to help patients recover in a safe setting. I feel developing an open and trusting relationship with my patients in a safe environment where they are able to express themselves freely without judgments provides for the best therapeutic outcome. However, it has become evident to me that a common thread amongst many

In Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), the therapist would help Jeffery by focusing on the result of the proposed treatment plan rather than the problems that brought him there in the first place. This goal oriented thought process places emphasis on the present and future in lieu of the past. Moreover, the therapist would ask Jeffrey to imagine what type of future he would like and then both he and therapist would team up to devise a course of action.