The Implications Of Attachment-Based Family Therapy

As a current family studies student, choosing Marriage and Family therapy was obvious. Already having a recapitulation of Marriage and family, it interest me to delve into this particular discipline. Family in particular, is a very important structure to a society. Getting specific with family, the way families “functions ensures a society survival” (Parson and Bales, 1995 and p. 6). One of the ways society’s survival is established is by the upbringing or the socialization of children. Moreover, children are sometimes a product of marriage and when children are brought into the picture, a nuclear family is emerged. However, with any family concerning children there are complications. From adolescence and into early adulthood, some children …show more content…
It's important to realize the different advantages of Family therapy. Comparatively, another form of family therapist is an Attachment-Based Family Therapy therapists. Attachment-Based Family Therapy therapists works with individual teens to help them “explore, expand, and deepen their stories of the experiences that have shaped their expectations… and barriers in their relationship with their parents” (Ewing, p. 93). To enumerate, Sara, a 14-year-old female, has been established as a high risk of suicide with a complicated history of depression and sexual trauma. Her family immigrated to the United States from Jamaica. Attachment-Based Family Therapy therapists have Sara go through various treatments to fix the barrier she developed. Sara benefited from individually working with her Attachment-Based Family Therapy therapists. In the first 3 weeks of treatment, Sara was able to convey her thoughts and feelings and develop a better perceptive of herself. In this situation, engaging in her inner emotion and attachment focused treatments with her mother helped Sara to experience full symptom remission (Ewing, p.