Dysfunctional Families & How to Be a Better Parent

Understand dysfunctional family dynamics and learn effective parenting strategies to break the cycle of shame, control, and addiction for healthier family relationships.

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Brief Summary

This course dives into how dysfunctional families work and how they can affect parenting. You'll learn about shame-filled family rules, how they create cycles of dysfunction, and discover healthier ways to raise kids. It's all about breaking the cycle, friends!

Key Points

  • Understanding dysfunctional families and their impact on children
  • Recognizing shame-bound rules and their perpetuation
  • Exploring the shame/control/release addictive cycle
  • Identifying healthy versus unhealthy parenting practices
  • The differences in thinking between children and adults

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify shame-based family rules and their effects on children
  • Understand the shame/control/release cycle in families
  • Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy parenting methods
  • Recognize how children think differently from adults
  • Develop strategies for healthier family dynamics

About This Course

Learn how the dysfunctional family develops, how to avoid it, and become a better parent.

Dysfunctional families cause children to become dysfunctional which results in dysfunctional adults, marriage, and society. Most of the abuse, chemical dependence, and violence in the world can be traced back to this problem. If we learn how to make our families healthier these problems can dissolve.

The first section of this course teaches what shame bound dysfunctional family rules are and how these rules are perpetuated. The shame/control/ release addictive cycle is delineated. Alternative healthy family rules are offered.

Poor parenting causes children to lose heart and become discouraged. They have a tendency to either give up or become defiant. They later replicate how they were treated and the cycle of dysfunctional families continues.

The second section of this lecture teaches how children think differently than adults in many ways although they are also quite similar. It describes in detail the principles of healthy and unhealthy parenting.

  • Learn about shame bound family rules.

  • Learn about how the internalized voices create low self-esteem.

  • Learn about the shame/control/release addictive cycle.

Course Curriculum

1 Lectures

Instructor

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Jef Gazley, M.S., LMFT

Jef Gazley, M.S., LMFT, DCC, D.CEP has practiced psychotherapy for over thirty years and is the owner operator of www.asktheinternettherapist.com since 1998 and www.hypnosisCDsandMP3s.com . He has been practicing energy psychology since 1975. He is trained and certified in both traditional and Ericksonian hypnosis. He is a member in good standing in the American Society For Clinical Hypnosis, National Board...

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of Reshma Chitlangiya
Reshma C.
3.0
3 years ago

It could be more expressive and more examples should be added.

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ui-avatar of Caroline S
Caroline S.
5.0
3 years ago

This video summarizes and explains in a very clear way how dysfunctions happen in the family and how children are affected. I have been working on boundary setting and breaking away from co-dependency and rescuing. This video was very helpful (life-changing actually) as it helped me understand the struggles I have experienced with perfectionism, blame, control, triangulation, not expressing feelings, co-dependency, and rescuing. It's amazing to finally understand how all this was engrained in me. I appreciated the information on how to "adopt" new beliefs and I greatly appreciated the information on how I can break this cycle with my children in my parenting. What a gem of information. Highly recommendable.

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ui-avatar of Annalisa Marie Geschke Papadopoulos
Annalisa M. G. P.
4.5
4 years ago

I came from a household who parents were trying to break the cycle because they came from.a dysfunctional family also. Cycles can be broken.

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ui-avatar of Carl ernspiker
Carl E.
5.0
4 years ago

Yes

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ui-avatar of 徐薇
徐薇
5.0
5 years ago

A wonderful course. I REALLY LIKE IT.

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ui-avatar of Lauren M. Piliero
Lauren M. P.
5.0
5 years ago

I love listening to the instructor, he speaks clearly and is very easy to follow. Everything he is saying is clearly true. I see a lot of things in my ex husband that make sense now.

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ui-avatar of Silvia Torres Teixeira
Silvia T. T.
5.0
5 years ago

Jef Gazley puts the info in a very easy way to conceive. He is very clear with words and goes straight to the matter. Content is great.

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ui-avatar of Ivan Boyko
Ivan B.
5.0
5 years ago

I see myself in many cases that Jeff describes.
Method of information delivery can be improved though to make it more alive and engaging

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ui-avatar of Haylee Harthoorn
Haylee H.
4.0
5 years ago

My husband and I did the course together and we found it very interesting and we learned so much.

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ui-avatar of Christine Corbridge
Christine C.
5.0
6 years ago

Easy to listen to, simple, direct. wonderful. thank you.

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