Aims of Family Systems Coaching: Carer Programme
To provide a theoretical and experiential based model to help carers understand the biological and emotional forces within, that can overwhelm and cause chronic anxiety, especially when caring/ living with a person suffering with mental illness.
To enable carers to distinguish between their anxiety and other’s and to develop the ability to self - regulate their emotion. This skill can increase their ability to make rational decisions rather than emotional, promotes increased confidence, reduces self- doubt /confusion and allows for clarity, honesty and open- communication which enhances connection in all relationships.
The theoretical model will provide a source of reference and stability, an anchor for carer’s, which can help them identify and assess, what they want to do and what they are capable of doing, in their daily functioning and caring role.
Objectives of Carer programme
Provide education about Self
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Create better understanding and development of interpersonal relational skills
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Provide understanding of what chronic anxiety is and how to identify it - fusion
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Know how to distinguish between emotional reactivity (an emotionally directed reaction) and a logical/rational response
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Increase insight into one’s own Family of Origin
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Increase awareness of own functioning / behavioural patterns
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Increase knowledge of own emotional tolerance levels and how these direct decisions and affect relationships
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Understanding of how one contributes to the family emotional unit and how to remain outside the fusion
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Increase confidence, independence and emotional maturity
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Develop strategies to remain true to self values and beliefs
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Develop decision skills based on logic
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Experiment with different behaviours / thinking in a safe environment
