Support for Families of Uniformed Personnel & First Responders

When is it time to get help?

Perhaps you’ve tried talking with your family, but the same patterns and negative behaviour gets repeated. If you feel that your family is controlling, judgmental, dysfunctional, or making you feel sad or bad about yourself, it’s time to seek help. As well, if you’ve been told that the effects of PTSD, alcohol, drug, or other dependencies are affecting the family or maybe you feel that you are a contributor to the dysfunction, it’s time to get some help.

Treatment methods for family issues

Together with your therapist you will determine the best approach to healing your family. Your therapist may also recommend specific and proven treatment methods such as:

• Family Systems Therapy looks at the family as one emotional unit. This therapeutic approach looks at the relationships within the family and the structure as a whole.
• Structural Therapy is when therapists tend to look at the organized pattern of the family members in order to help and understand family patterns. Commonly, these patterns are repeated and by understanding structure one can decide what needs to be done in order to help modify or improve the relational patterns.
• Behavioural Therapy tends to view human beings and behaviour with the assumption that humans are a product of their sociocultural conditioning and environment, looking at the current problems and the factors influencing them and emphasizes behaviour changes more than the underlying unconscious processes.
• Solution Focused Therapy views people as inherently strong and resilient, and capable of creating change and discovering solutions to their everyday problem.