The length of each session can vary a lot, but typically they last between 50 minutes and an hour and a half . It often takes place when there is a problem with a child. However, a child doesn't have to be involved, sometimes family therapy takes place with only adults present. Family therapy deals with the family, and not just one person, like many of the other therapies. This can have a number of advantages, such as being able to inflence the problem via a number of people, instead of just one.
Family therapy can take many different forms.
This can be basically summed up as an approach which uses the idea that the problem lays within the family as a whole, and not just within a single person. We know this sounds a bit strange at first sight, but if you think about it, it's really quite sensible. Thus, in wetting the bed the child is saying that the problem lies with him or her. Mum and Dad may use this problem, again often for only the best reasons in their own minds, to focus their attention on the child and not their own relationship difficulties. This may serve the function of keeping the whole family together, instead of risking the break-up of the parents' relationship and hence the family.