Systemic psychotherapy
Systemic family therapy gradually expanded to cover a wide range of disorders, including psychotic disorders in the broad sense, psychosomatic disorders, eating behaviour disorders, addictions, dementia, child abuse, spousal and family violence (EFTA, European Family Therapy Association, http://www.europeanfamilytherapy.eu, 2019).
Some of the issues or situations a family could benefit from through family therapy are listed below:
- Health problems, particularly chronic physical illnesses
- Psychosomatic problems
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Adult mental health
- Psychosexual difficulties
- Alcohol and other substance abuse
- Marital problems including separation and divorce issues
- Foster care, adoption and related issues
- Issues involving the Family’s life cycle and transitional stages of life
- Promoting parenting skills and family functioning
- School-related problems
- Work-related problems
- Traumatic experiences, loss and bereavement
- Disruption of family life due to social, political and religious conflicts (EFTA, ibidem).
Individual therapy
The systemic approach considers the individual person in his entity and in relation with the different systems in which he/ she is embedded. An individual therapeutic approach tries to help the person to situate herself / himself in the family system, the environment, the workplace by clarifying the generation process of the problem and the relation difficulties which cause questioning or suffering.
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A partnership encounters high expectations from both partners nowadays. Each member of the couple is looking for his/her personnel fulfilment and seeks from his/her partner recognition, support and attention. Pression rises due to job requirements, a possible parenthood, a satisfying sexuality, the management of everyday life.
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The family stability can be compromised by numerous difficulties, as the disability of a member of the family, a bereavement, a sickness, behaviour problems, mental health issues…Right from the start, the different family members will try to understand that there exists a dysfunction concerning the whole family and not this or that member.
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