I'm going got the children's park in my sweet van
Where do you think your going?
Family meetings
Preliminary analysis
I am lost now you have taken me here on your carpet
Therapists: How do you feel?
It helps family members achieve a balance between caring for the individual and maintaining their own lives, it reduces anger and guilt, it improves their ability to anticipate and solve problems and forms
Information transfer
He will feel isolated
Families taught to have weekly family meetings solving problems on family and individual goals, resolve conflict between members, and pinpoint stressors.
Communication skills
Yes I agree!!
Preliminary analysis: Through interviews and observation the therapist identifies strengths and weaknesses of family members and identifies problem behaviours.
Information transfer – teaching the patient and the family the actual facts about the illness, it’s causes, the influence of drug abuse, and the effect of stress and guilt.
teach the family to listen, to express emotions and to discuss things. Additional communication skills are taught, such as “compromise and negotiation,” and “requesting a time out” . This is mainly aimed at lowering expressed emotion.