Parental challenges in filial therapy process: A conceptual paper

This paper highlights the importance of understanding parental challenges in filial therapy process. Fi 1- taltherapy is coinedas golden therapy/or irs effectiveness across cultures, famiiy structures; and presenttng issues for over five decades. It has been demonstrated within the literature that...

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Main Authors: Cheng, C.H., Baranovich, D., Lau, P.L., Hutagalung, F.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/17708/
http://eprints.um.edu.my/17708/1/All.pdf
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Summary:This paper highlights the importance of understanding parental challenges in filial therapy process. Fi 1- taltherapy is coinedas golden therapy/or irs effectiveness across cultures, famiiy structures; and presenttng issues for over five decades. It has been demonstrated within the literature that parental challenges did emerge but it is not reported in a clear and detailed manner. Filial therapy focuses on understanding the process of a parent needed. This is a gap that needs to he explored to improve the implementation and expansion offilial therapy. This paper has proposed to use Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory to study the challenges. Besides, filial therapy's study in the context of Malaysia is non-existent but it is expected that the families here wilt benefit from this therapy modality.