Why Parents Should Invest in Psychological Therapy

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Why Parents Should Invest in Psychological Therapy

Investing in psychological therapy is arguably the best investment parents can make for their children, since it helps improve parenting skills, guaranteeing children better life outcomes. Psychological therapy helps parents fulfill their parental duties by becoming more productive at work, providing a caring home environment, and helping their children make the right life decisions. Indeed, children raised by responsible and caring parents are likely to excel in school, develop strong characters, and become successful in life. Thus, parents should invest in psychological therapy to achieve financial stability, provide a caring home environment, and become effective mentors, thereby creating the right conditions for their children to succeed in life. 

Firstly, psychological therapy can help parents achieve financial stability, enabling them to provide basic needs for their children. According to research, parents with poor mental health struggle to keep jobs due to issues like absenteeism, lateness and low productivity (Gmitroski et al., 2018). The inability to keep a job prevents a parent from earning enough income to provide basic needs like shelter, food, medical care, and education for their children. In contrast, mentally healthy parents enjoy career success due to their work productivity and self-discipline, allowing them to achieve financial stability (Gmitroski et al., 2018). Financially stable parents are in a position to provide their children with a comfortable life and quality education, thereby improving their prospects for success in future. Parents should invest in psychological therapy to become more productive at work, and achieve the financial stability they need to provide their children with a comfortable life and quality education.

Secondly, investing in psychological therapy is necessary to help parents provide a caring home environment, where children can develop emotionally and socially. Studies have shown that parents with mental health problems tend to be abusive toward their children, which hinders the child’s emotional and social development (Darling-Churchill & Lippman, 2016). According to available data on child abuse trends in the United States, children from abusive families entering the foster care system exhibited mental disorders like anxiety and phobia (Meinhofer & Angleró-Díaz, 2019). This situation suggests that seeking psychological therapy can help abusive parents overcome their violent tendencies, and create a caring home environment for their children to develop emotionally and socially.

 Thirdly, psychological therapy provides parents with the opportunity to gain mentoring skills, enabling them to help their children develop strong characters and make the right life decisions. For example, family therapy trains couples not only how to create a strong marriage, but also how to maintain a healthy parent-child relationship (Darling-Churchill & Lippman, 2016). Moreover, studies have consistently shown that children who relate well with their parents are less likely to engage in unsafe sex and drug abuse than children raised by abusive parents (Darling-Churchill & Lippman, 2016). These findings suggest that parents play an important role in their children’s character development. Thus, it is recommendable for parents to seek psychological therapy to gain effective parenting skills, and help their children to strong characters and make the right choices in life.

Psychological therapy is evidently a worthy investment for parents who wish for their children to succeed in life. Psychological counseling can help a parent to achieve financial stability and the means to provide his or her children with a comfortable life and quality education. Also, psychological therapy can help a parent create a caring home environment where children can enjoy emotional and social development. Lastly, psychological therapy can help parents to gain mentoring skills, and as a result raise child with strong characters and capable of making the right choices in life. 

References

Darling-Churchill, K. E., & Lippman, L. (2016). Early childhood social and emotional 

development: Advancing the field of measurement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 45, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2016.02.002.

Gmitroski, T., Bradley, C., Heinemann, L., Liu, G., Blanchard, P., Beck, C., Mathias, S., Leon, 

A., & Barbic, S. P. (2018). Barriers and facilitators to employment for young adults with mental illness: a scoping review. BMJ Open, 8(12), e024487. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024487.

Meinhofer, A., & Anglero-Diaz, Y. (2019). Trends in foster care entry among children removed 

from their homes because of parental drug abuse, 2000 to 2017. JAMA Pediatric, 173(9), 881-883. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.1738.