Family counseling
In the event of crises or conflicts in the family, those involved are supported in perceiving the different needs of the individual family members, better recognizing relationship patterns and their effects within the family and mobilizing their own resources in order to develop solutions for their own family with the new perspectives and experiences.
Details
Counseling can help you to work out ways of contributing to greater satisfaction with each other.
The following topics can be addressed, for example
- living together in the family in a spirit of partnership and appreciation
- Finding new ways of dealing with conflicts and crises in the family
- Raising awareness of relationship patterns within the family and their effects
- Creating or maintaining conditions conducive to the development of each family member
- Raising awareness of the different needs of family members
- (Re)discovering the strengths and abilities of each individual
The counseling services are free of charge and confidential and are aimed at parents, children, adolescents, young adults (up to the age of 21) and family members residing in Jena. The counseling specialists are bound to confidentiality, also towards all other areas of the Youth Welfare Office.
Office hours
Advice is given by appointment. Appointments are best made by telephone or e-mail. The family counseling service offers an open consultation hour on Tuesdays from 08:00 to 10:00, during which counseling is possible without an appointment.
As a rule, the family counseling service is also available from Monday to Thursday between 09:00 and 12:00 on the telephone number 0049 3641 49-2833.
An answering machine is available during consultation hours.
Legal basis
- § 28 Social Code VIII