Family Therapy

Family therapy is likely to be short-term healing, usually several months in length, with a focus on determining detailed problems such as eating chaos, complexity with school, or adjustments to bereavement or geographical rearrangement. It is not usually used for long-term or exhaustive restructuring of severely dysfunctional families. It may be conducted by a pair or team of therapists. In many cases the team consists of a male and a female in order to treat gender-related. Family therapy is based on family systems assumption, which recognizes the family to be a living organism that is more than the sum of its individual members. Family therapy uses "systems" theory to appraise family members in terms of their position or responsibility within the system as a whole. Problems are treated by altering the way the system works rather than trying to "fix" a specific member.