When one or more people within the family system are having problems, it affects the whole family. The marital relationship can impact the children. Children and adolescents may experience problems that can create difficulties for the whole family.
To complicate matters, generational family patterns, life cycle events and stressors in the extended family system and larger society can also influence the family relationships and interactions.
Family intervention can help to alleviate these stresses on the family system, change the dysfunctional patterns and reinforce those positive patterns and behaviors that are already working well.
Pathways' staff can help families determine the involvement in treatment which best suites the needs of the family. This may include individual, couple or group treatment.
Family Stresses
Stress in the family may be a result of:
- Parenting Issues
- Birth
- Physical Trauma
- Relocation
- Legal Issues
- Unemployment
- Illness
- Sexual Trauma
- Step-Parenting
- Life Cycle Transitions
- Adoption
- Blended Families
- Emotional Trauma
- Divorce
- Death
- Grief & Loss
- Addiction
Child and Adolescent Services
When children and adolescents experience difficulties, family relationships can be affected. These difficulties, in turn, have an effect on the family. Behaviors or changes exhibited by these children and adolescents might include:
- Poor Social Skills
- Suicidal Thoughts/Behaviors
- Poor Self-Esteem
- Aggression
- Depression/Isolation
- Change In Eating & Sleeping Patterns
- Decrease or Change In Physical Health or Resistance
- Emotional Delays
- Regression to Earlier Stage Behaviors
- Inappropriate Sexual Acting Out
- Developmental Delays
- Adverse Behaviors
- Running Away
- School Problems
- Lying, Cheating
- Stealing
Therapy for a children, adolescents and family members can help to facilitate some relief and create positive change for the entire family.