Anorexia, drug addiction, school failure. The suffering of a child is sometimes symptomatic of dysfunction within the family. Family therapy can help the youth and his entourage.
Family therapy looks at the child or adolescent in its interactions with various family members. It seeks to understand what suffering can mean.
Indeed, in some cases, the symptoms presented by a young patient can be regarded as suggestive of a dysfunction in the parent / children, brothers / sisters. It may be paradoxical communications (which contradict or cancel out), the unspoken, false beliefs or misunderstandings between them, resistance to change.
The family does not thereby become a patient that is sought to cure or regulate. It is rather seen as a system that is to decipher.
The update malaise family’s priority is to relieve the suffering child, but it ultimately allows each of its members to better breathing.
Attention family therapy never leads to the indictment of an individual in the family. Rather, when properly conducted, it has the effect of erasing the exclusion mechanisms possibly at work in the inner circle.