What Are the Differences Between Individual and Family Therapy?

This book is the fifth book in the popular series of psychotherapy. It mainly discusses the various relationships of the family and the essentials of family therapy. The family is the basic unit of society, the cradle of personal growth and an important base for husband and wife . In this book, we first analyze the family system, discuss various family psychological problems or more serious abnormal problems in the family, and finally carefully explain the various essentials and principles that must be known in family therapy. This book is written in order to explain in simple terms, easy to understand, so that ordinary people can understand and help. ^[1]

Family Relations and Family Therapy

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This book is the fifth book in the popular series of psychotherapy. It mainly discusses the various relationships of the family and the essentials of family therapy. The family is the basic unit of society, the cradle of personal growth and an important base for husband and wife . In this book, we first analyze the family system, discuss various family psychological problems or more serious abnormal problems in the family, and finally carefully explain the various essentials and principles that must be known in family therapy. This book is written in order to explain in simple terms, easy to understand, so that ordinary people can understand and help. ^[1]

Foreword This is the fifth book in the Popular Book on Psychotherapy. It mainly discusses the various relationships between families and the essentials of family therapy. The family is the basic unit of society, the cradle of life for personal growth, and an important base for husband and wife life. With a happy family, individuals can continue their self-cultivation and development career, society can be stable and prosperous, and the country can be well governed. For such an important family, how to understand and operate, everyone has daily common sense, but there is not much specialized academic knowledge, and there are very few professional books on how to implement family counselling. Usually people face common family problems and can rely on common sense knowledge and methods to deal with them. However, when encountering more serious family psychological problems, they often do not know how to deal with them, nor do they know how to accept professional family counselling.
Husband and wife relationship is the backbone of the family. Marriage and family are connected together and are difficult to distinguish. In this series, according to the habit, relationships that mainly belong to husbands and wives and marriage issues are classified as the fourth "Marriage Relations and Marriage Therapy", and are mainly concerned with parent-child relationships, or The psychological problems of the whole family belong to the analysis and discussion in this book.
In order to implement family therapy, we must first understand the structure and function of the family, the source of various psychological problems and their nature, so that we can start family counselling. Therefore, in this book, we first analyze the family system, explore the various interpersonal relationships in the family and the development process of the family, and then analyze various common family psychological problems or more serious abnormal problems. Finally, I will explain in detail the essentials and principles that must be known in family therapy.
The writing of this book is intended to be easy to understand and easy to understand, so that ordinary people can understand and help. And in order to meet the needs of readers, the analysis and discussion of actual cases are adopted. Some cases are the actual clinical experience of the author's past counseling, which has been published in the traditional version of the book "Marriage and Family Counselling", or has been provided by colleagues at home and abroad and has been raised in the past years of psychotherapy training courses Discussed. There are a few cases in which the treatment of "marriage" was discussed in the fourth chapter of "The Relationship between Married Couples and Marital Therapy", but the issues involving the relationship between the parents and children or the whole family were supplemented in this book. It is discussed as "family" counselling. This also means that the family is an extension of marriage. In accordance with professional habits, each example is modified to hide the personal background of the case. Special thanks to the colleagues who provided the case for their participation and assistance. Thank you also for your cooperation. Their experience in coaching can help more people in need of counseling. I hope this book can help many people in the society, helping them to build a happier and healthier family life.
September 9, 2001

The first part is the family's psychology and relationship. The first chapter is the function and system of the family. The second chapter is the group behavior of the family. The third chapter is the various relationships in the family. The fourth chapter is the development process of the second chapter. The fifth chapter is the family. Discussion of Problems Chapter 6 Common Family Psychological Problems Chapter 7 Abnormal Family Behavior Problems Chapter 3 Family Therapy Chapter 8 Basic Concepts of Family Therapy Chapter 9 Various Models of Family Therapy Chapter 10 Techniques and Techniques of Family Therapy Essentials Chapter 11 Progressive Procedures for Family Therapy Chapter 4 Case Analysis of Family Therapy Chapter 12 Family Structure and Function Problems Chapter 13 Family Problems Related to Parenting Chapter 14 Family Development Problems Chapter Chapter 15: Three Generations of Interrelated Family Problems Chapter 16: Families with Cultural Adaptation Problems Caused by Relocation to Migrants Chapter 5 Ends Chapter 17: Society, Culture and Family Chapter 18: Mental Health References and Books for Families

Book Digest Single-parent families In European and American societies with high divorce rates, after divorce, single-parents raise their children, and there are many cases of single-parent families. Most of the children are raised by mothers. However, due to the economic instability and lack of fathers to raise and discipline children together, psychological difficulties are prone to occur, which is not an ideal situation. However, the over-emphasis on the emotions of men and women and the neglect of the sense of responsibility for marriage relationships and the responsibility of raising children has resulted in many single-parent families. If the father is still responsible and provides parental support after the divorce, it's okay, otherwise the mother as a woman has to do her own business and support her children, but it is not easy. If the father has the right to visit the children, when he visits the children on time, it is easy for parents to fail to use the same criteria to discipline them, which is also very troublesome. If the father does not come to visit, it is another difficulty. In short, from a psychological standpoint, divorce and single-parent families are not ideal situations, they are only a last resort solution, and they are easily accompanied by many difficulties and problems.
If a remarried family is married, after having children, and remarried due to widowhood or divorce, the newly formed family already has its unique structure and development, and there are special family psychology and relationships that need to be adapted. For example, a gentleman already had two children in the original marriage, and then remarried after the widowhood. At this time, from the standpoint of family development, the mother was a latecomer to the "family", and the "legacy" of the child left by the ex-wife. Therefore, in the family relationship, it is also possible to take a special role and spend some time to adapt to existing "old" members of the family, including two children. If it is a divorce and remarriage, how to maintain the relationship with the original wife (that is, the child's mother) is a complicated matter. How children's relationship with their stepmother and their own mother can coexist is a delicate key that requires special effort. It can be said that remarried families have to go through their own special family development paths and stages.
In summary, no matter what the family system is, any changes in the structure and development of the family, each family must go through different stages of family development from the beginning to the end. Each development stage has its own issues to deal with, and has its own special problems to solve. Through these different stages of development, a family has to undergo "dynamic" development and change. From the standpoint of family counseling, "family development" is one of the important angles and directions for understanding the family, and it is also a factor to be constantly considered in counselling.
The second part of the family problem Chapter five discusses the relationship between family and personal psychological problems Although the family is the basis of personal life, personal behavior and family environment are closely related, but the psychological problems that belong to the "individual" and attributed to What is the possible relationship between the two kinds of psychological problems of "family", it is worth our careful understanding and proper distinction; in this way, we can correctly judge the direction and level of counseling. According to recent research by family mental health experts, we know that there are several possibilities for the relationship between the two, let us break them down item by item.
Personal psychological problems are the manifestation of family problems. This means that what we see in a person's psychological, emotional, or behavioral difficulties and obstacles is actually a manifestation of the individual's family problems. For example, a family's living environment is messy, various conditions are poor, they ca nt eat enough, and they do nt wear well. As a result, the youngest child among them suffers from malnutrition. Well, this child has malnutrition. This is a manifestation of the poor living conditions of this family. Similarly, a child often has a bad mood, or is always crying and does not want to go to school. It may be because the children and adults in the family are in a bad mood. It was just that the child's emotional and behavioral problems were more noticeable.
If we explore this concept, we can easily find many examples to confirm this situation. For example, an 18-year-old boy, Tiehan, always complained of physical discomfort, backache, backache, weakness, and lack of energy, and always wondered what serious problems he had. My mother was worried and took him everywhere to see a doctor and take medicine, but it was not always good. Careful analysis of his family environment revealed that Tiehan's mother was a continuation. In addition to Tiehan's father, there are two ex-wife's sons in the family. They are older than Tiehan and have a strong body and strong personality. After going to middle school, they went to military school. After Tiehan's mother continued the string, she had only one child. Coupled with the fact that Tiehan has been sick since childhood, his mother is more caring. Tiehan's father is very strong. He does nt know how to be young and he always has no courage to hide. Whenever he encounters a small difficulty, he asks his mother to cry and ask his mother to solve the problem for him. Therefore, his father was particularly fierce towards Tiehan, and often taught him to make him suffer and wanted to exercise him. Tiehan couldn't stand his father's severe treatment, so he looked for his mother. When the mother saw the situation, she quarreled with her father, saying that his father's inexperienced weakness of the iron man was to torture him and bully her only baby. His father watched his mother care for his old wife and said that his father was even more furious. The more angry his father was, the more the iron man complained of his discomfort, so that his mother would have an excuse to scold his father. Therefore, Tiehan s psychological tendency toward suspicion can be said to be the result and performance of the relationship between the parents and the Tiehan family. In order to heal the various physical discomforts of the Tiehan, or to worry about illness, the relationship with the father and mother must be basically corrected, and the relationship between the parents must also be adjusted. In other words, it is necessary to work hard on family relationship issues in order to solve the problem.
Let us look at another example. Shuzhen is a seventeen-year-old girl. Recently, I often stayed away from home and danced with some boys, smoked, and engaged in unscrupulous activities. The police eventually found out that they were arrested and detained. After investigating Shuzhen's family, she immediately discovered that Shuzhen's father had money and had a job, but was often busy with entertainment and rarely returned home from work on time. And, often, g-girlfriend carrying his wife and girlfriend, occasionally found by his wife, noisy for a while, the whole family suffered. Due to her bad mood, Shuzhen's mother often ran out, mingling with friends, drinking, gambling, and pastime, and rarely managed family affairs. In such a family environment, Shuzhen felt that she was not interested in life and had no focus, so she had to learn to run with her parents and seek fun outside. So Shuzhen s behavior problem is just a manifestation of the whole family problem. It can also be said to be the top of an iceberg floating on the water. The problem is still a large iceberg under the water.
Sometimes, personal psychological or behavioral problems have special functions, which are very clever to rescue the entire family's problems, so as not to dissolve the problematic family. For example, a little girl has often been emotional, crying, unstable, and dare not go to kindergarten. She asks her mother to accompany her at home during the day, and her father to coax her and tell stories at night to fall asleep. It turned out that at home recently, parents had troubled each other, made each other unpleasant, and even talked about using separation to solve marriage problems. But since then, the younger daughter has emotional problems and wants her parents to take care of her day and night. As a result, parents did not dare to mention separation, so they had to put the matter aside and the couple would not be separated. Therefore, from a certain point of view, the young daughter's emotional instability occurred because of her parents 'emotional problems; but at the same time, another role occurred, that is, holding the parents' relationship to prevent them from breaking up the marriage. It can be said that personal psychological problems are used to try to remedy family psychological problems. This phenomenon is occasionally visible.
These examples. Behind personal psychological problems is an example of family psychological problems. It can be said that personal problems are just the top of the iceberg of family problems. In this case, the main point is to improve the remedy for the psychological problems of the whole family, and not for the personal psychological problems. Otherwise, it can be said that the main points of the problem have not been caught.
The fact that the family is the cradle of personal psychological problems means that the personal psychological problems originate from the family's past circumstances. Although it may not be directly related to the current family environment or situation, careful analysis reveals that it was related to past family background facts. Let us give some examples to illustrate it.
For example, the eighteen-year-old girl from the Chen family, Hui'an, has suddenly been in a bad mood for the past few months. She often wakes up at night with nightmares, loses her temper for trivial matters during the day, and noisily does not want to leave home to study abroad the University.
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