What Does Positive Family Therapy Deal With?

Abstract

This old saying from the Middle East describes the relational connections we live in. We have to start with the proposition that small changes in one area of life can influence the entire system. As Confucius would say, every person is responsible for the rise and fall of humanity. One corrupt official, for example, can discredit an entire social institution and even shake the people’s faith in their social structure. Usually this is not an isolated incident and the entire society is considered to be corrupt. The corruption then becomes more or less accepted as a semilegal way of dealing with all officials.

If you want to put the country in order, first put the province in order. If you want to put the province in order, you have to first bring order to the cities. To bring order to the cities, you must bring order to the family. If you want to bring order to the family, you must first bring order to your own family. If you want to bring order to your own family, you must bring order to yourself.