Do you need family counseling? Signs that confirm it
If you notice that your family’s emotional balance is not right, you may need family counseling.
A healthy and happy family is what is necessary for children to grow up emotionally balanced. Parents will experience their greatest family joys when there are limits to a stable and healthy family relationship. Unfortunately, not all families are stable, healthy, and happy all the time. The stress of daily life, family crises, physical or mental illnesses can cause family stability to falter and with it, the happiness of each member of a household.
Children or relatives with disabilities, financial problems, behavior problems, the ages of the children and the different stages and challenges that each one entails for parents … there are many situations that may require additional help to solve and return family harmony at home.
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RESISTANCE TO PROBLEMS
There are families who have a built-in resistance to everyday problems, but even the best families may feel the need for help to find their balance again. Deciding if it is necessary to go to a family counselor (psychologist or educational psychologist) can be a decision that must be weighed, always thinking about the good of the family.
You may think that doing so is admitting defeat or failure, but nothing could be further from the truth, failure would be not trying to improve the family situation. Choosing family counseling will take a step forward since they will provide you with tools to improve the relationship in the family. You will learn new ways to communicate, to solve problems, to discipline children, to evaluate your own behavior and to improve the relationship between all of you.
SIGNS THAT YOU NEED FAMILY COUNSELING
If these signs (one or more of them) exist in your family, then it will be time to consider hiring the services of a family psychologist or a psychopedagogue specialized in family counseling. Once you start, you will have to do your part to have good results. These are the signs to watch out for:
-The family does not work as a team, things that were routine are now heavy
-You feel that your energy runs out when you are at home as a family
-Families tend to have extreme emotional reactions (anger, fear, sadness, depression, etc.)
-There is poor communication between family members
-There are no family plans and when there are they go wrong
-There are symptoms of violence or threat of violence against oneself or against other family members
-Your children prefer to be away from you or isolated from family activities
-Aggressions in the family
-There have been changes in children’s behavior within the home or at school
-The family has had a traumatic experience and the relatives are having
trouble coping
-There are family members have substance abuse problems
-You yell too much at home
-You do not have the ability to control impulses
-Your children yell at you or hit you
If in your home you notice that you have more than one of these signs, or even if only. There is one of them but you have enough emotional distress , so it is essential that you seek the help of a therapist, be it a family psychologist or a psychopedagogue specialized in family counseling. The strategies they give you to work as a family will help you to solve problems and above all, to live in harmony. It will be very important that as a family you all do your part.
Remember that a professional does not have a magic wand and just by attending their sessions does not mean that everything is resolved. The professionals can give the keys and strategies to improve, but it will be your duty that once you are at home you put it into practice. Only in this way and with a good commitment can you begin to see results .
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.