Location

Greenspun College of Urban Affairs

Description

Family-Farm Therapy incorporates a therapeutic clinic within an urban farming community site, and focuses on multi-stressed family systems and the larger community system. The goal is for systemic change within the family and the community by creating positive relationships and personal acceptance. Farming has traditionally been a family endeavor which makes it a unique environment to be utilized as metaphors for family systems, their interactions, behaviors, and structure. Multi-stressed families have socioeconomic hurdles that complicate their ability to adjust to change and crisis in their family. Farming addresses such hurdles by offering economic sustenance, increased physical health, and community acceptance. Family-Farm Therapy incorporates the benefits of farming to directly address socioeconomic hurdles as part of the therapeutic plan. This literature review will explore other out-of-the-box therapeutic applications that have demonstrated clinical significance and/or research effectiveness, as a foundation for Family-Farm Therapy’s innovative contribution to the application of family therapy.

Keywords

Agriculture; Dysfunctional families; Dysfunctional families--Services for; Economics--Sociological aspects; Families; Family counseling; Family psychotherapy; Family violence; Farm life; Health; Homelessness; Mental health; Nutrition; Poverty; Therapeutics; Urban agriculture; Victims of family violence

Disciplines

Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling | Mental and Social Health | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

Language

English

Comments

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Family-Farm Therapy: An Urban Therapy Clinic to Address The Multifaceted Needs of Multi-Stressed Families and their Surrounding Communities

Greenspun College of Urban Affairs

Family-Farm Therapy incorporates a therapeutic clinic within an urban farming community site, and focuses on multi-stressed family systems and the larger community system. The goal is for systemic change within the family and the community by creating positive relationships and personal acceptance. Farming has traditionally been a family endeavor which makes it a unique environment to be utilized as metaphors for family systems, their interactions, behaviors, and structure. Multi-stressed families have socioeconomic hurdles that complicate their ability to adjust to change and crisis in their family. Farming addresses such hurdles by offering economic sustenance, increased physical health, and community acceptance. Family-Farm Therapy incorporates the benefits of farming to directly address socioeconomic hurdles as part of the therapeutic plan. This literature review will explore other out-of-the-box therapeutic applications that have demonstrated clinical significance and/or research effectiveness, as a foundation for Family-Farm Therapy’s innovative contribution to the application of family therapy.