Formats, family counseling, and the elderly

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Phra Kampithep Dhammiko

Abstract

The family is an important and meaningful institute for human, and is a
basis and foundation of thought. Each small family connects to become the national
society by body and mind, world crisis problems, main value focus, and object with
particular daily attempt to make money and allocate less family time under the
thought that money is the part contributing to real family happiness. However, money
is contrary to happiness. The more wealth you have, the more distress you suffer,
resulting in the family’s encounter with problem. And overlooking of insignificant
family problems. The insignificant problems in national level, and the said social
problems may cause crime and violence. Therefore, every party must help building
strong family network to prevent the occurrence of problems, and systematically
correct the occurred problems in family counseling, contributing to efficient and
effective solving of such problems. The purpose of this article is to suggest the family
and elderly counseling formats counseling formats consisting of structure-based
counseling, cognitive behavior-based counseling, and empiricism and humanismbased
counseling, for appropriate selection by the family and elderly counselor
according to problems.

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How to Cite
Dhammiko, P. K. . (2018). Formats, family counseling, and the elderly. Journal of Buddhist Psychology, 3(1), 38–51. retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jbp/article/view/242984
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