Family Therapists Help Children Move On
Family therapists often find themselves playing the role of Memory Keeper for families adjusting to difficult moves. Especially now, with so many families losing their home and being forced to adjust to new living arrangements in new neighborhoods or buildings, saying goodbye to an old home is often saying goodbye to an old life. Family therapists of being called upon more and more often to help children, and parents, adjust to new lives.
Ignoring what it took to leave the old home, or pretending that the move was anything less than difficult does not work as well as most hope. A therapist can help your family transition from your old home to your new home, while providing you and your family the strength to say goodbye and the courage to face your new life with hope.
One way that therapists help families move onto to new homes is to suggest creating a scrapbook. Preserving the memories and create a scrapbook of your old home the journey to a new home can make a huge difference in a child‘s transition.
Gather up older photos of your old home throughout the years and take some new ones to demonstrate how your home has changed over the years. Baby rooms and cribs made way for big kid beds and big kid rooms. The shrub planted out front may have started out small but is now overgrown and needing a trim. All of these photos can provide information to put into a scrapbook for your family’s move and provide a way for kids to look back on their story and be able to talk openly about what it meant to them.
Moving can be very stressful, but a family therapist can help your family transition.
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