ON FAMILY COUNSELING
The family is a school that prepares its members for social life through love. The family is a system created by people, based on a common purpose and cooperation. To know the family, it is necessary to know the person. When approached from the point of view of materialism, human is a machine, from another point of view a creature that has to know its essence and surpass itself, from another point of view, it is a supreme and will-powered creature that the creator breathes life into. From a psychological point of view, it is possible to call a person an individual. Considering the common point of all definitions, it is understood that human is an organism that exists with external factors. It is a person who is affected by the society and family he lives in, and who influences or even creates it. Understanding human is understanding family; Understanding the family is also guiding in understanding and shaping society.
The first and most important dimension of the individual’s social environment and external factors is the family. A healthy and strong family will raise a healthy and strong person, and the society will develop with the same health and strength. The family system functions as a subsystem of the social system. How the family system, which consists of the interaction between mother, father, children or just the spouses, can be stronger and healthier, and what kind of information should be given to the family before problems arise, brings the birth of family counseling. The family, like the individual, tends to be in balance. An event in which an individual is affected in the family system will affect all family members and the system.
Family Counseling strives for the functioning of the family system and the functionality of the family in communication, problem solving, family health and sexuality, relationships, parent-child relationships, conflicts, divorce, marriage and premarital processes. It is a type of service that is completely confidential and includes services such as providing information and helping the person to know himself. Family Counseling; Unlike individual counseling, psychological counseling works with the family system rather than individual individuals.
When should a family counselor be consulted?
-When they can’t adapt to being a family
-When they are constantly arguing about the same problems and cannot find a solution
When they have trouble understanding each other
-When they experience communication problems in general
-When there are sexual misconduct
When they think they have no choice but to divorce
When they feel disagreements and lack of knowledge about child-rearing, sexuality, problem solving, communication
– When negative feelings such as depression, anxiety, panic, anger, hopelessness, helplessness and unhappiness begin to dominate their inner spiritual world, they should apply to a specialist for their marriage.
