Individual Therapy
A. Individual Therapy
Individual therapy refers to therapy sessions with one client and the social worker. Individual sessions with a Social worker average about 45 minutes to one hour long.
Therapy provides a confidential, safe and nurturing space to look at yourself and your personal issues. It serves as a type of mirror which provides a spectator position onto one’s own life, helping one to make sense of how things fit together. Within this experience the client and therapist work together to unlock the wisdom and solutions clients carry within themselves, but cannot claim for various reasons. Successful therapy leaves one feeling empowered, with a deepened understanding and feeling that one is taking charge of your life, even if ‘taking …show more content…
Family Therapy
Family therapy is based on the belief that the family is a unique social system with its own structure and patterns of communication. These patterns are determined by many factors, including the parents' beliefs and values, the personalities of all family members, and the influence of the extended family (grandparents, aunts, and uncles). As a result of these variables, each family develops its own unique personality, which is powerful and affects all of its members. Family therapy is based on the following concepts as well:
• Illness in one family member may be a symptom of a larger family problem. To treat only the member who is identified as ill is like treating the symptom of a disease but not the disease itself. • Any change in one member of the family affects both the family structure and each member individually.
A family Social Worker/ therapist assist families in:
• Teaching family members about how families function in general and, in particular, how their own
Individual therapy refers to therapy sessions with one client and the social worker. Individual sessions with a Social worker average about 45 minutes to one hour long.
Therapy provides a confidential, safe and nurturing space to look at yourself and your personal issues. It serves as a type of mirror which provides a spectator position onto one’s own life, helping one to make sense of how things fit together. Within this experience the client and therapist work together to unlock the wisdom and solutions clients carry within themselves, but cannot claim for various reasons. Successful therapy leaves one feeling empowered, with a deepened understanding and feeling that one is taking charge of your life, even if ‘taking …show more content…
Family Therapy
Family therapy is based on the belief that the family is a unique social system with its own structure and patterns of communication. These patterns are determined by many factors, including the parents' beliefs and values, the personalities of all family members, and the influence of the extended family (grandparents, aunts, and uncles). As a result of these variables, each family develops its own unique personality, which is powerful and affects all of its members. Family therapy is based on the following concepts as well:
• Illness in one family member may be a symptom of a larger family problem. To treat only the member who is identified as ill is like treating the symptom of a disease but not the disease itself. • Any change in one member of the family affects both the family structure and each member individually.
A family Social Worker/ therapist assist families in:
• Teaching family members about how families function in general and, in particular, how their own