Facilitation of the Communications between Mother and Daughter by Family Counseling

Abstract

　　Sometimes the communications between two persons do not succeed in the situation like the family that the member and the environment do not change easily. When it occurs they will become to be able to do commumcations smoothly if the third person who does not relate to communications intervenes it.

　　This research treats the case with the mother and the daughter who were chiefly repeating aggressive communications at the non-verbal level. The daughter complained about a hypochondria and vague anxiety. The family counseling in which parents and the daughter participated was executed two times in two months. The therapists helped the mother and the daughter to express their emotions in the word. As a result, it was clarified that the mother had abused her daughter when the daughter was a child. The mother talked crying that she was afraid of her daughter and. felt sorry for abusing her at the past time.

　　By counseling the mother and the daughter were able to express their emotions and communicate freely not at the non-verbal level but at the verbal-level. That is they could exchange feed-backs at their communications. The daughter become less complaining her anxiety.

　　The reason the method was efficient is that the communications pattern is adjusted by the therapists as a third person. The role in communications that the third person played was confirmed.

　　For such a family, it is hoped that the father actively participators in mother and daughter’s communications.