What is Marriage and Family Therapy?

 

A family's patterns of behavior influence each individual and the family members who live within the home therefore your family may need to be a part of the treatment plan if negative issues arise. In marriage and family therapy, the unit of treatment is not just with one 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, and designed with the "end in mind."

 

Marriage and family therapist Los Feliz treats a wide range of serious clinical problems including depression, marital problems, anxiety, individual psychological problems, and child-parenting 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, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.

 

Marriage and family counseling Los Feliz regularly practice short-term therapy; 12 sessions on average. Nearly 65.6% of the cases are completed within 20 sessions, 87.9% within 50 sessions. Marital/couples therapy (11.5 sessions) and family therapy (9 sessions) both require less time than the average individual treatment (13 sessions). About half of the treatment provided by marriage and family therapists is one-on-one with the other half divided between marital/couple and family therapy, or a combination of treatments.

 

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