Family Issues
 

Family therapy involves the participation of one or more members of the same family who seek help for troubled family relationships or the problems of individual family members. Typical problems that bring families into family therapy are delinquent behavior by a child or adolescent, a child's poor performance in school, hostilities between a parent and child or between siblings, and severe psychological disturbances.

Rather than treating one person's symptoms in isolation, Dr. Houle works from the rationale that current family relationships profoundly affect, and are affected by, an individual family member's psychological problems.

Dr. Houle employs psychological research and personal observations to identify the factors that promote or inhibit the development of individual and family strengths.

Dr. Houle contributes to the development and support of strategies that facilitate the optimal development of children and youth within families.

Some of the issues affecting children, youth, and families, include (but are not necessarily limited to) issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability.