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Single parents are a heterogeneous cohort and there is no one “right” method or “best” counseling method. On the other hand, a lot of different therapeutic interventions may be appropriate depending on the parent’s needs, the presenting problems, the gender and ethnic background of the parent, the parent’s spiritual or religious worldview, and the parent’s sexual orientation. The age of the child will also have a bearing on which therapeutic interventions would work best in any given client’s case. Personal preferences may also make one counseling style or therapeutic practice work better than others, and some trial-and-error may be warranted. In spite of their tremendous intra-group differences, single parents may face some of the same challenges including financial strain, stress management, and child behavior problems. Therefore, group therapy is likely to be an effective solution for many single parents. Group therapy can also be combined with individual counseling and family therapy.
Research substantiates the use of multiple modes of therapy concurrently, particularly combining group therapy with filial therapies (Vafa & Khaidzir, 2009). Filial therapy includes play and other relationship-building activities that address the needs of both parent and child. The therapeutic interventions have been shown to “enhance and strengthen parent-child...
4). By focusing on the parent’s behaviors, the filial therapy methods also prevent children from being misdiagnosed with mental health problems and encourage single parents to develop resilience and healthy coping styles.
However, group therapies might also be necessary to help single parents cope. Lipman & Boyle (2005) found that community-based group therapies were especially helpful with mood elevation and self-esteem improvement but ironically, not on social support building. Reasons for the results may be related to extraneous variables, but generally group therapies do offer single parents the opportunity to learn how other people cope with stress, build networks that can help alleviate childcare burdens, and build community-based solutions for single parents. Financial strain remains a major burden for many single parents, which is why community-based programs can help to inspire affordable childcare options and alleviate feelings of isolation (Lipman & Boyle, 2005). One thing that group therapy does not effectively address is how to adapt parenting styles, which is why combining group therapy with filial therapy may be effective. Filial therapy does directly…
Overview Single-parent families, by definition, are families having a single parent as the head of the family either by choice, as a consequence of death of the other partner, or divorce. It is important to note that over the last two decades, single parent families have been on the increase – effectively resulting in family structure changes. As a matter of fact, as Strong, DeVault, and Cohen (2010) point out, “in
There are many of these individuals, and it is time that this is changed. Parents often look away from these kinds of problems, or they spend their time in denial of the issue because they feel that their child will not be harmed by parental involvement with drugs or alcohol. Some parents have parents that were/are addicts themselves, and some are so busy with their lives that they do not
Human Services Case The client in this case is Ms. Ann Schafer. Ms. Schaefer is an unemployed African-American female, 43 years of age, divorced, mother of three children. Presenting Problem The client is a single mother with three children who was recently evicted out of her one bed room apartment because she could not pay the rent. She is unemployed and now homeless. She has no contact with the father of her children
Counseling is described by Kobeisy as the professional form of guidance that is aimed at addressing concerns as well as aid individuals in improving their attitude, coping skills as well as behavior (Kobeisy 1).Counseling can help people, families as well as groups in achieving optimal growth and development for the stages of life in which they go through. Counseling as a profession has many specialties like marriage, grief, and pastoral
Christian counseling has become an important treatment modality for a growing number of health care practitioners and patients across the country in recent years. Introduced during the early 1980s, Christian counseling advocates integrating religious practices and beliefs founded on religious traditions with psychotherapeutic techniques to provide an optimal approach to helping people cope with a wide range of personal problems and family issues. The purpose of this study is to
This is accomplished by using a number of different tactics in conjunction with each other to include: examining their lifestyle, developing client insights, establishing a strong relationship with the patient and creating a change in behavior. When interacting with children, these views are used to comprehend how: their connections with friends and family members are influencing their desire to be accepted. ("Theories of Counseling," 2010) (R, Tice, personal communication,