Psychological Counselling - How To Help : CFA Ministry

How is psychological counselling non-drug treatment effective?

The form and direction of psychological counselling non-drug treatment of CFA Counselling Ministry is:

(1) Based on the family system theory, find out the causes or root causes of mental and emotional problem or marital and family problem (including the underlying causes of formation and the precipitating causes that directly lead to the problem), help people to increase awareness and discover insight and upraise hope for change,

(2) To integrate multiple schools of counselling therapy (integrate multiple counselling theories) to construct multiple perspectives of intervention, so as to make counselling therapy more complete, to release emotions, unravel stagnation, provide different options, solve problems and free oneself from trouble, break the difficulty and barrier in interpersonal relationship, improve the interaction of emotion, thought and behaviour, and strengthen self-regulation and the operational ability between left and right brain, so that an individual are not troubled by mental and emotional problem anymore.

(3) To use resilience research as the fundamental framework of psychological counselling to improve overall psychological quality, break through bottleneck and find out the most suitable solution to the problem of oneself, regain self-confidence, and make people perform better at home and work, also provide an option of non-drug treatment that helps people improve self-regulation and resilience, ameliorate dependence on drug treatment, and provide preventive and healing effect.

Therefore, psychological counselling not only treat problem but also improve life quality.

The psychological counselling non drug treatment composes of three levels:

(1) To release emotion, and deal with stress and symptoms that cause mental problem and emotional distress, such as: depression, anxiety, panic disorder, panic attack, mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hypochondriasis, addictive behaviour, sexual addiction, sexual problem, addiction problem, internet addiction, grief (death, loss), trauma (traumatic issue, feel hurt or injured, post-traumatic stress disorder), personal growth and development (relationship problem, communication problem, character problem, temperament issue, career issue and problem), schizophrenia, delusion, hallucination, psychosis, etc.,

(2) To deal with the core of mental and emotional problem, that is an in-depth therapy. It is based on family system theory and integrates multiple schools of counselling therapy (integrate multiple counselling theories), to provide multiple perspectives of intervention to make counselling therapy more effective and complete,

(3) To consolidate the counselling therapy and to improve self-regulation and resilience, also to move towards holistic health of physical, mental, social and spiritual, that is an option of non-drug treatment to ameliorate dependence on drug treatment to provide preventive and healing effect.

Nowadays life and work are stressful, that affect emotion, and families are easily prone to problem. Then family cannot provide a cozy place or safe haven for an individual. Relationship or marriage are easily broken up while the divorce rate is very high. Plenty married couples divorce, a lot of people suffer from emotional disorders, one in ten people suffers from depression and mental or emotional problem is becoming common, the age of mental health patients is getting younger, too.