Family counseling provides systematic interactions between the identified individual consumer, staff and the individuals family members directed toward the restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of the functioning of the identified consumer/family unit.

Family Counseling: Family counseling, sometimes couple’s therapy, works with a client and significant others to nurture change and development with the client as the primary beneficiary of the counseling and based on the psychiatric condition/symptoms. Family counseling tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction (i.e., communication patterns, verbal and non-verbal, emphasizing patterns of relating that are beneficial for recovery) between people to identify factors that contribute to issues for the benefit of the client. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.

Parent-Child Conflicts

Individual/Group/Family Counseling/Skills Building will address:

• Resolving Conflicts With Children: Issues for Parents
• Learning to Wait
• Which Decisions Are Up For Grabs?
• Why He/She Won’t Clean Up His/Her Room
• Strategies for Resolving Conflicts Between Parents and Children
• Strategies in Action: The Art of Parent-Child Negotiation
• Learning to Negotiate
• Teaching Manners
• How to Gracefully Bow Out of a Conflict
• How to Address Wanting to Be Right
• Why It’s Important Not to Give In to Kids All the Time

ASFC Outreach Therapeutic Counseling Services delivers affordable, sliding-scale mental health and substance abuse services to youth and families who need financial assistance, ensuring that those with little or no mental health insurance have access to care.