Assessment And Evaluation Of Family Therapy

There are various kinds of interventions for the treatment of substance use disorder, and different interventions have their own characteristics. After reviewing some articles, both Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) and Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) are evidenced-based interventions, and some researches support them. Therefore, this paper will contrast these two interventions and illustrate how the effectiveness of the interventions is.

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.

Solution-Focused Family Therapy is a group treatment based on over twenty years of theoretical development, clinical practice, and empirical research. Solution-Focused Family Therapy is different in many ways from traditional approaches to treatment. It is a competency based model, which minimizes importance of past problems, and instead focuses on clients’ strengths and what has worked for the clients. There is a focus on working from the client’s understandings of her or his concerns and situations and determine what they might want to be

The Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board is a compilation of the Indiana Code and Administrative Code for all social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and addiction counselors. This reflection paper examines the Indiana Code and focuses on the specific requirements to become a family and marriage therapist associate, and what requirements need met to become a fully licensed therapist. In addition, to move from an associate to a licensed therapist one must obtain a number of supervised hours that will be further examined in detail.

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).

Throughout the treatment, I worked to identify the problems that were plaguing Buddy and the Herman family. As certain challenges had existed for quite some time it was an ongoing process pulling back each layer and building trust with Buddy to discover the who, what, why, and how. I worked to understand how the issues impacted Buddy’s functioning in school, with his family, and behavioral wise. Once I was able to identify the effect on Buddy we were able to work together to form solutions and properly meet the identified goals.

In marriage and family therapy, many varied approaches and therapies are available to therapists. The following, based upon a case study, will examine the three therapies (structural, systemic and solution focused therapy) and will demonstrate why solution focused therapy is likely the most effective for the case study at hand.

Thank you for taking your time to speak with me today. I’m grateful you’re willing to let me back into your care, and I don’t know how to express the reactions I’m having to our conversation. In my time at ERC I’ve found writing a better alternative to a chatting, and I feel as though my conversations with you are easier when we’ve pre-discussed them.

Strategic family therapy is a solution focused type of therapy primarily used with families. Strategic therapists believe that the entire family should participate in therapy. The main goal of strategic therapy is to encourage families to change the behaviors that causes the biggest problem in their family. (Goldenberg, 2013)

Suppose I am working for a community mental health agency, and I have assigned cases about 14-16 year- old male adolescents with conduct disorder. I have been asked by my director of clinical training to answer one question: “What family treatment modes have been found to be effective for treating this population?” In order to answer this question, I did some research online and found several appropriate articles. Thus, I will use those researches to illustrate this question in this paper. In addition, I will talk about three effective family treatment modes which including brief strategic family therapy (BSFT), multisystemic therapy (MST), and functional family therapy (FFT).

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.”

I really enjoyed viewing your group program evaluation on Functional Family Therapy. You all and your evaluation focused on the clients that were participants and the issues of risky behavior and crime involvement to see if there would be a change if the selected families participated in the Functional Family Therapy. The goals that were stated in your presentation addressed issue of adolescents’ “risky behavior and crime involvement” that is affecting the family function, including the actions of the adolescents’ part of the evaluation. Great job on the results your evaluation achieved for the Functional Family Therapy. It showed that the Functional Family Therapy did its job, by there being a decrease in crime and risky behavior from the

This paper uses the application, concepts and techniques from The Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and The Satir Model under Family Therapy in working with the case study of George.