Goals of Counselling and Family Therapy

 Goals of Counselling and Family Therapy

Every therapy has a goal. Physiotherapy has certain goal to achieve in a stipulated time through certain procedure of exercises. Similarly pharmacotherapy has certain goal to cure the disease with certain doses of medicines. Thus family therapy or psychotherapy has some goal to heal the mental pain, to improve relationship, to bring the happiness in life etc. Now I want to analyze the therapeutic goal used in practice of Counselling and Family Therapy.

1. Restructuring the personality: Personality can be defined as the act done anyone for a purpose, which should not disturb any other’s work or life. If our belief systems are not well arranged, as socially accepted then, our acts may be distorted or socially not accepted too. It may lead disturbances in relationships as well as workability. The Counselling and Psychotherapy can restructure the personality.

2. Uncovering the Unconsciousness: Many people do not know about their consciousness. But they thought that their every decision is perfect. People could not see any problem as it is in reality. Only they have taken a decision on the beliefs. Through the counselling and family therapy uncovered the unconsciousness. Then they can understand how progress with consciousness.

3. Creating Social Interest: If a person isolated himself due to false cognitions and depression then therapy may create social interest. Due to lack of social interest people may go under depression and feels very lonely.

4. Finding Meaning in Life: Without purpose life is like a rather less boat. Purpose may lead the life happily and successfully. If one could not find the meaning of life, he/she may be wonder in a cyclone of situation. In that case counselling and psychotherapy may help in finding of meaning in life. For example, the addicted person lost their meaning of life, therefore they lives their life purposelessly.

5. Curing an Emotional Disturbance: Relationship problem like separation, divorce, parental relation, in laws relations, parent-child relation etc. creates emotional disturbances. Emotional disturbances always decrease the workability, reduce interests and increase anger. Counselling and family therapy cures emotional disturbances through the psychological procedures.  

6. Examining old decision and making new ones: Today’s decision makes tomorrow’s happiness. If anyone unhappy due to his/her previous decisions, then counsellor may identify such decision by examining that and help the client in making new decision, which may help to get the happiness.  

7. Developing trust in oneself: Who is not trust in oneself; he/she may lose their confidence. Psychotherapist sets the goal to develop trust in oneself by certain psychological procedure like Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy/Cognitive behaviour therapy.

8. Becoming more self-actualization: Self-actualization is very important to understand life as real as it is. If we understand the reality our decision will be more accurate/correct. That’s why becoming more self –actualization is another goal of psychotherapy.

9. Reducing maladaptive behaviour and learning adaptive pattern: Distorted behaviour changed the emotion towards unusual sign like anger, sadness etc. Such emotions may change the cognitions. Again cognitions change the behaviour. If the mal adaptive behaviour could not reduce then new pattern of behaviour could not be adapted. Psychotherapy may reduce the maladaptive behaviour and helped in learning adaptive pattern.

10. Becoming grounded in the present moment: Past can’t change and future is not seen. But future depends on the work doing in present moment. Lots of people spent their time by wondering in past and future. Thought of past can give us depression and thoughts of future can give us anxiety. The only enjoying present moment can give us the actual happiness. The psychotherapy may help the people to becoming grounded in the present moment.   

11. Managing intense emotions such as anxiety: Peoples are afraid for the darkness and lack of knowledge is actual darkness. The future thoughts and lack of darkness may create anxiety. The psychotherapy set the goal to manage the intense emotion and this would manage the cognigence to reduce the anxiety.  

12. Gaining more effective control of one’s life: Disciplines and control of life gives the true sense of happiness. But, in present society self-control for discipline is taken as burden of understanding. Therefore, psychotherapy helps to gain more effective control of one’s life.   

13. Re-authoring the story of one’s life: Counselling and psychotherapy set the goal to re-authoring the story of one’s life. Whoever is unhappy for his/her life story counselling and psychotherapy may act the life changing role. It inspires to live the life with a new thought process.

Thus, counselling and psychotherapy helps the people in need by achieving such goal through proven psychological theory and practices.