Family Systems Therapy
Family systems therapy
is based on the idea that individuals are best understood through
assessing the entire family. Symptoms in individuals are seen
as expressions of dysfunctions. The family is an interactional
unit and a change in one member effects all members. Family therapists
believe that an individuals relations have more impact in their
lives than any one therapist could. The family therapist uses
the systemic perspective, it believes that individuals may carry
a symptom for the entire family, and an individuals functioning
is a manifestation of the way a family functions. Individuals
can have symptoms existing independently from the family members
but these symptoms always have ramifications for family members.
Therefore, family therapists will change the system in order to
change the individuals. They do so by changing dysfunctional patterns
or relating and creating functional ways of interacting.
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