Keep Your Family Talking and Enjoying Life With Family Counseling

Marriage and Family Therapy

Providers:

A family's pattern of behavior influences the individual and, therefore, may need to be a part of the treatment plan. In marriage and family therapy, the unit of treatment isn't just the person- even if only a single person is interviewed- it is the set of relationships in which the person is embedded.

Marriage and Family Therapy Is

Brief
Solution-Focused
Specific, With Attainable Therapeutic Goals
Designed With the "End in Mind"

Marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of serious clinical problems, including:

Depression
Marital Problems
Anxiety
Individual Psychological Problems
Child-Parent Problems

Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective, and in some cases more effective than standard and /or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism, and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, child autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.

(Description via: aamft.org)