Family Therapy Research Paper

“Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt”. Salvador Minuchin suggests that children shouldn’t be treated or approached in a manner that is different to what they know as it can make them uncomfortable, however they need support from adults in order to achieve prosperity in life. Although most families come from very different backgrounds and are compiled from various cultures, they are depended on to provide love, comfort, and support. Since every family is different, it is highly likely that members struggle and overcome different obstacles and situations in a variety of ways. One …show more content…
“That goes along with crack, AIDS, social conditions that create difficulties for children” ( Minuchin). Children face peer pressure everyday to the point where drugs, alcohol and violence consumes their lives. It is usually affiliated with these bad habits which causes the kids to act out in a certain way for attention or a call for action. Family therapy is a call for action when children behavior differently than how they usually act in the family due to their surroundings and materialistic items or things that is evolved with the child. As children grow and progress during their stages of life, transitioning to a child into a teen and then into an adult is when, “...children become aware of their essential unity with all other people and attain the courage to be truthful and truth seeking. They also learn that the highest level of human freedom is obtains when one engages in acts of service to others” (“The family and development”). This illustrates that children are always seeking the truth and by engaging with others and their voices are heard within their society and loved ones. Family therapy is a safe environment where children get to voice their opinion on a family trauma or event that is affecting them personally which can lead to the child’s behavior and actions to alter. As the “...child guidance workers such as John Bowlby began the …show more content…
Medication is the one thing that parents go to as a solution to the child’s problems instead of stating the problem and going over what is wrong with child. Not even acknowledging the problem. “ Even when the medication is working, a child with ADHD might still struggle with forgetfulness, emotional problems, and social awkwardness, or an adult with disorganization, distractibility, and relationship difficulties” (“ADHD or ADD Medications”). ADHD is one out of the many problems that children struggle with and parents can’t seem to figure out the problem but to oversee the problem that the child is struggling with. Even with the medication trying to help the child to focus more on their school work or even in general usually has side effects to the medicine that the child intakes. The intake of medication has it pros and cons but in this case the use of medication to treat the behavior of child is the wrong way of doing things as a parent. Family therapy views the child’s behavior and seeks the problem of what is going on and what is affecting them rather than suggesting and or prescribing the parent to medication to treat the child’s behavior. Family therapy is essential to children especially concerning their mental health. “Acoustical analysis confirmed changes of voice quality and mean fundamental