Monday, March 1, 2010

Conjoint Family Therapy

Satir believed that most people are only one tenth aware of what is actually happening within a family. She also believed that the members in the family must depend on the total awareness of the family's structure in order to survive. After studying several families Satir reported that she found a lot of puzzles in families.
Satir's System consists of three key ingredients:

1. When counseling families, make sure that each member's self-esteem is increased. To do this facilitate their understanding of the family unit and teach them to implement changes by being open, nurturing, and gain positive behaviors.
2. Each member of the family needs to better understand and analyze each other, and learn to know when and how to respond, so that the lines of communication can open up and improve.
3. The counselor will use experiential learning techniques to help the family understand their present interactions with each other so that they can be encouraged to take personal responsibility for their own behaviors and feelings.

2 comments:

  1. Great post! Most people think of therapy as involving a one-to-one relationship with a therapist. However, there are times when it is more appropriate for family therapy and marital counseling either instead of or in addition to individual therapy.
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