Thérapies en couple et en famille

Family therapy encompasses a set of interventions in which at least two members of a family who have to deal with mental, behavioural and/or relational disorders seek for medical help. These disorders may be severe and violent, with a life-threatening pattern, such as in case of psychotic or psychosomatic disorders, dementia, feeding disorders, addictive behaviours, neglect or ill-treatment, or sexual abuse. They may be also marital disorders, educational problems, communication disturbances, family passions. These therapies are generated by the differentiation or the combination of different movements: psychodynamic, ecosystemic, behavioural, cognitive, psycho educational, narrative, eco-etho-anthropological. The confrontation of these multiple conceptions allows adjusting the therapeutic intervention to the clinical specificities, and to the complexity of the disorders that are to recognize and solve. From this perspective, family therapies may participate to the evolution and transformation of interventions and care contexts.