Family and Parenting
A family is a natural social system that has its own properties, with evolved set of rules, with roles that are assigned to or ascribed by its members, has an organized power structure, has overt or covert forms of communication, and has its own effective styles of performing various tasks and solve problems. A family system is a microcosm with its own microculture where people connected through sense of shared history, believes, assumptions, and goals which keep them tied up together despite a physical, emotional, and chronological distance.
All families have the potential for development and recovery in moments of distress trauma, threat, or crisis. In such difficult times one member, a couple of people, or a family as a whole may exhibit dysfunctional behavior before the family is able gather its sources to gain its equilibrium.
Despite of impact of various socioeconomic factors such as education, ethnicity, spirituality, and sexual orientation some families are more resilient and stable. Such families are more flexible in seeking solution to their problems, pursuing satisfaction and happiness of each member, and better recover from misfortune than other families.
Resilience is a unique developmental process that enables each family member or a family as a whole to create adoptive responses to stress, and in some cases stimulates their growth and development. Support of friends, neighbors, clergy, community, and government often play an important role in family’s recovery. While some families can be destroyed by crisis, others become stronger and closer.
Circular causality is a term that psychologists use to explain a family dynamic. An emotional and/or behavioral change happens in one family which causes an emotional and behavioral response in the rest of the family and vice versa, each member’s response to the change effects that one’s family member back and so forth. The family member who appeared to be the most disturbed by the disequilibrium in the family usually becomes an identified patient (IP) who is a symptom bearer of the whole family. The symptoms displayed by an identified patient can be perceived as a stabilizing force that brings a family back to normal range of functioning. On the other hand, symptoms displayed by an identified patient could be seen as a consequence of dysfunctional family structure and transactions. In order for family to adopt and regain their functioning, new ways of relating and solving problems are necessary.
As a family therapist, I will help you to explore the possible causes of your family problems. We will identify and examine the factors that prevent your family from gaining the balance you are striving to achieve. Together we will find the solutions to resolving your family issues and will come up with a plan of how to maintain the desired state of your family wellbeing.
All families have the potential for development and recovery in moments of distress trauma, threat, or crisis. In such difficult times one member, a couple of people, or a family as a whole may exhibit dysfunctional behavior before the family is able gather its sources to gain its equilibrium.
Despite of impact of various socioeconomic factors such as education, ethnicity, spirituality, and sexual orientation some families are more resilient and stable. Such families are more flexible in seeking solution to their problems, pursuing satisfaction and happiness of each member, and better recover from misfortune than other families.
Resilience is a unique developmental process that enables each family member or a family as a whole to create adoptive responses to stress, and in some cases stimulates their growth and development. Support of friends, neighbors, clergy, community, and government often play an important role in family’s recovery. While some families can be destroyed by crisis, others become stronger and closer.
Circular causality is a term that psychologists use to explain a family dynamic. An emotional and/or behavioral change happens in one family which causes an emotional and behavioral response in the rest of the family and vice versa, each member’s response to the change effects that one’s family member back and so forth. The family member who appeared to be the most disturbed by the disequilibrium in the family usually becomes an identified patient (IP) who is a symptom bearer of the whole family. The symptoms displayed by an identified patient can be perceived as a stabilizing force that brings a family back to normal range of functioning. On the other hand, symptoms displayed by an identified patient could be seen as a consequence of dysfunctional family structure and transactions. In order for family to adopt and regain their functioning, new ways of relating and solving problems are necessary.
As a family therapist, I will help you to explore the possible causes of your family problems. We will identify and examine the factors that prevent your family from gaining the balance you are striving to achieve. Together we will find the solutions to resolving your family issues and will come up with a plan of how to maintain the desired state of your family wellbeing.
