Familias y procesos que reportan el logro de objetivos terapéuticos en el Centro de Familia de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Abstract

This article is derived from a research that selected 48,759 medical histories on families who finished the therapeutical procedure with accomplishments such as their professional perception and the consultant family’s opinion, resulting in a total of 2,520 therapeutical procedures with these characteristics, giving out the following variables: ways of family organization, steps of their vital cycle, problems consulted according to a professional perception and certain motives for a consult expressed by families, the number of attended families, the duration of the process, and some other aspects. This is a descriptive quantitative study, whose general objective is to identify the profile of the families that finish therapeutical processes with their objectives and goals accomplished in the Family Centre of the UPB. The main results indicate that nuclear family, in the stage of schoolarity and adolescence, are highly represented in this population and they succeed on adquiring abilities that allow them to strengthen the accomplishment of functions related to the
consult’s overall motive, as are the obstacles on the exercise of authority, bases of how to raise an infant, rules, punishments, infant’s relationship with the father, mather and vice versa, and the difficulties on communication. The reaching of this goals is accomplished by each family over a time of six months and with five or six appointments.