Family counseling is the counseling service provided within the framework of the Family Law Act. Family counselor helps people with relationship problems to cope more comfortably with personal or interpersonal problems related to children and family during marriage, separation and divorce.
Family counseling can be about hurt feelings, problems between you and your partner or with another member of the family, new living arrangements, and problems with caring for children and financial arrangements.
The most important difference of family counseling from individual therapies is that it approaches the whole family as a whole instead of dealing with the individual alone. Therefore, considering the family as a whole facilitates the solution of problems.
In the family counseling approach, the problem of the individual is evaluated based on the family system he is in. The individual is not identified as having a problem, instead the problem of the family system is identified.
Individual therapy focuses only on the individual who is thought to be "problematic" or who has a problem. Therapy is carried out through the interaction between the individual with the problem and their therapist. The goal is the change of the individual. The change of the environment of the individual takes place with the change of the individual.
Purpose of the Program
The function of family counseling is to support family members in issues such as death, chronic illness, leaving a family member from home, as well as interpersonal problems within the family. Family counseling has specific and clear goals. The aim is to provide new skills that will facilitate family members to understand each other better and to draw clear and flexible boundaries, as well as solving the problems experienced by the family.