Reasons to Go to Therapy with your Family

Storytelling is now emerging as a critical component of Scottsdale family therapy. There are now quite a number of Scottsdale therapists who have gained positive results in their sessions with individuals facing varied family issues. It is essential that we spend some time and understand some important principles that come into play when storytelling is adopted as a major element of the family therapy approach.

Storytelling when used for family therapy relays ideas and messages holistically. As a result to this, the listeners are able to receive the message in a simple, logical manner and through one session.

Storytelling is actually an age-old media used to express ideas and emotions. This type of communication is the native language which can be used with persons as young as two years of age. In retrospect, the abstract form of communication becomes effective only to individuals who are at least 8 years old.

This technique opens up the family to therapist in a way that allows him to sort out the elements in logical sequence out from a chaotic setting. This approach connects the individual to time and space, and the direction of the sequence of events becomes clearer enabling the therapist to deliver a more sensible idea or message. Family therapists are able to deliver holistic realities by using storytelling as an main technique in their therapy sessions as opposed to abstract method of communication which normally breaks down the message into fragments.

Abstract family therapy forces on our perceived time and space and sets its own framework and applies preeminent mental framework to another individual. What happens to such type of therapy is that the person is limited to just two options- accepting or rejecting the idea relayed by the family therapist. With the abstract communication approach, one can only receive a yes-no, all or nothing type of confrontation. By contrast, storytelling comes out as a multidimensional encounter which encourages the listener to participate in activities and exercises with the family therapist. This narrative element of family therapy is sort of like a rhythmic dance instead of a communication struggle.

In addition to what has already been said, another thing that makes this so effective is that it allows the listener create a parallel event in his own consciousness. This makes the individual less likely to exhibit the normal rejection that is normal seen in the abstract type of communication.

Another critical aspect of storytelling lies within our ability to reason thought from knowledge. We know more things than we think we are capable of knowing and it is essential to acknowledge the importance of tacit knowledge in the overall realm of things.

Finally, abstract type of communication is in general described as dry and dull because individuals have to struggle to it to reality. As living creatures with unique characteristics we are easily attached to things that are animate and are opposed to certain things like abstracted concepts. Individuals like and view the experience of storytelling as lively and entertaining. It is one great way we can accept ideas because they are presented explicitly by a competent family therapist.