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Family and Couple’s Counseling Similar to individual psychotherapy, marriage and family therapy involves a collaborative relationship between the couple or family and the clinician. The purpose and goal of therapy is to benefit the individual participants and their relationships. Research suggests that marriage and family therapy is as effective as individual psychotherapy in treating common emotional problems, such as depression, anxiety, and a range of other emotional problems. Marriage and family therapy is strongly indicated to address marriage conflict, family stress, parent-child relationship problems, and adjustment to developmental changes in family members (e.g., birth of child, adolescent adjustment difficulties, adult child home leaving, disability of elderly parent, or death of a parent).
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