Family Counseling
The Jones family willingly sought family therapy to help them through a crisis with the Jones family's young son. As counseling was not imposed, from the outside, this should make the therapeutic process easier and more constructive. However, there might be a great deal of initial resistance upon the rest of the Joneses to talking about the other underlying family issues and coping mechanism in need of being addressed to find a long-term, holistic solution to the family's conflicts, and economic and psychological needs.
Because therapy but was solicited by the family to address a specific family member and issue, the strategic model of family intervention might seem most appropriate to the family -- get the boy back in school and off the streets, get the boy a job so he doesn't end up in violation of his parole and back in the juvenile detention center, they might cry, with some justification. (Goldenberg & Goldenberg 86) But it should become clear, upon further examination and probing upon the family counselor's part that the entire Jones family structure is problematic, as it exists, and is showing signs of stress and strain that extend beyond the son's immediate problems and acting-out.
These family strains are not...
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