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Family Therapy and Communications: Literature Review

No therapeutic technique designed to foster communication and improve relationships within the family dynamic is comprehensive and suits the needs and situation of all students. Educators and therapists will likely deploy a variety of approaches. Still, having a sense ***** the more popular theoretical rubrics is helpful when formulating an approach.

***** family therapy

Cognitive-behavioral family therapy attempts to facilitate greater communication between family members by focusing on current, negative thought patterns *****d behaviors, rather than delving into the family's l*****g, past history like psychoanalytic theory. Although less community-based than some therapeutic forms, it can be very helpful in ameliorating the behavior of young children and their parents in the classroom as well ***** the home, ***** focusing on what can be changed (thoughts and *****) rather ***** the actions of others. "Cogn*****ive-*****havioral therapy is based on the idea that our ***** cause our feelings and *****, not external things, like people, *****s, ***** events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change ***** way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does ***** change" ("What is cognitive-behavioral *****, 2008, NACBT). In other words, instead ***** saying 'my son is a bad boy,' or 'I can't do math,' family members are enc*****aged to change their thought processes, and thereby their actions and create a new family dynamic.

Bowen theory

Bowen ***** systems theory views the family as an emotionally interconnected system. A ***** (or a classroom) ***** like a small society, with its own unconscious rules, culture *****d behavior. A l*****e change in one person's behavior causes changes in everyone else's lives in positive and negative ways. This can be an effective way to understand why a family member, even a young child, is 'acting out' in apparently self-destructive ways to express aggression at other family *****. When there is a problem ***** ***** or in school, the whole ***** must be treated, rather than a s*****gle individual. This pr*****ts scapegoating the child for ***** may be a larger family problem ***** must be addressed for ***** child to function normally ("Bowen therapy," *****, ***** ***** Center).

Milan Systemic Therapy

The basic assumption of Milan Systemic Therapy is that human beings are social creatures, and ***** symptomatic behavior is transactional in nature and must be understood as part of a l*****rger social context. "The ***** consider that the way to eliminate ***** symp*****m which is present in the ***** is to change ***** rules and beliefs. Change ***** achieved in clarifying the ambiguity in relationships" ("Find out ***** about family therapy," 2008, DMRTK). Intervention and treatment of the ***** is required, not simply an individual member, and ***** services ***** be required to also address failures in the larger family system in terms of how ***** *****'s ***** are addressed.

Structural Therapy

Structural therapy focuses on altering ***** *****, through altering the structure and dynamic of how the family relates to one ano*****r, *****ten by enhancing