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30 Saturday, May 14 1977 OtUwM Journal Family counsellors told at seminar SILVER GOLD Custom Made Jewelery To your Specifications. Complete Repair Service At Frank talk the key to saving marriages and showed videotapes of 5737 Reasonable Rates. Ring's 424 BANK ST. 238 reticence, but a basic fear that a frank family discussion might reveal the fact that there Is "no love in the family for "I might find out my parents don't love me, is the greatest single human fear," he explained. "And the hardest thing for family members to say to one another is, 'I love Yet this assurance of love is the key to resolving most family troubles." During a day-long keynote workshop on Friday, Framo demonstrated his methods of group therapy techniques he has been evolving through 22 years as a family counsellor together with a professional counsellor to talk over their relationship problems." James L.

Framo, PhD, author and professor in the department of Psychology at Temple University, Philidelphia, said the reason underlying this panic wasn't shyness or Baring one's soul in public has saved hundreds of marriages and the sanity of countless family members, a pioneer in the field of marriage and family counselling told 200 delegates attending the third annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Counsellors (OAMFC) at Carleton University, Friday. Yet the partners in a marriage that is "in deep trouble" are panic stricken at the suggestion that the family parents, children, even grandparents and aunts and uncles should "sit down Tliis is it! The spectacular summer sale that thrifty home sewers look forward tot acoiai case Histories. In most of these family conflicts, he said, the "insurmountable problem" became a "molehill" once the grievances were frankly discussed. One young couple who had separated because "the husband was subject to uncontrolled were back together again when the cause of the angry frustration was discovered. The problem had been a poor relationship between the husband and his father.

When the son who had been "nursing past hurts" finally realized his father "wasn't always trying to down him and desperately wanted to reach the rages ceased. The young couple admitted a few days after the therapy session with their parents that for the first time "they felt really Not every case, however, had resulted in the reuniting of marriage partners, Framo added. Sometimes the frank talks revealed basic incompatibility. Another of the videotapes shown at the workshop followed the story of a family that had always expected too much from its elder daughter. The pressures to achieve had thrust her into marriage with an alcoholic and the union was destroying both partners.

Until the family came to terms with its attitudes and expectations, the girl had been unable to face truth that she had made a mistake in her marriage and should, for the sake of her own sanity, seek a divorce. The meeting continues today with a variety of workshops on subjects ranging from the value of counselling to mid-life processes, parent and teacher education, and fulfilling sex in family life. Incoming president Claude Guldner of Kitchener said an important part of the three-day annual meeting will be tb consider the newly forma-lated bylaws of the organization. These establish professional standards In marriage and family counselling among the membership, and open the way to co-operation with other agencies in tlfc field. NOTICE If you own a TRAILER; or CAMPER NOW is the time to have your propane equipment and appliances thoroughly-inspected and adjusted.

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