Gwanak-gu Shares Secrets to Maintaining Healthy Family Systems

Gwanak Family Center Selected as an Excellent Case in the Common Competency Enhancement Training Hosted by the Korea Healthy Family Promotion Institute... On November 22, Presenting the Excellent Case to Nationwide Family Centers under the Theme 'Gwanak Meta-Family, Connecting the Hearts of the Whole Family'

According to data from Statistics Korea this year, an average of about 100,000 divorces occurred annually from 2018 to 2022. In particular, divorces involving couples with minor children accounted for 41.7% of all divorces last year.

In response, Gwanak-gu (Mayor Park Jun-hee) is making multifaceted efforts together with the Gwanak Family Center to identify the causes of conflicts arising in family relationships and actively support the maintenance of healthy family systems.

First, the Gwanak Family Center focused on alleviating increasing tensions and anxieties within families, such as parenting stress and intensified family conflicts.

They identified various family crisis situations, including parents experiencing conflicts with their children and single-person households not yet psychologically independent from their original families, and provided a variety of services such as psychological testing, counseling, and parenting coaching.

Additionally, since 2021, the district has been conducting “mid- to long-term group counseling” for infertility and adoptive families, not only addressing the low birth rate issue emerging as a recent social problem but also developing and implementing “customized counseling” to meet the needs of diverse families such as multicultural, single-parent, adoptive, and remarried families.

As a result of these efforts, the Gwanak Family Center was recently selected as an exemplary case in the “Family Service Professional Workforce Common Competency Enhancement Training” hosted by the Korea Healthy Family Promotion Agency.

On November 22, the Gwanak Family Center plans to present this exemplary case to family centers nationwide under the theme “Gwanak Meta-Family, Connecting the Hearts of the Whole Family.”

The district hopes that this presentation of the exemplary case will serve as an opportunity to promote Gwanak-gu’s innovative family counseling approaches to local governments across the country.

Furthermore, the district plans to continue its efforts to improve accessibility to family counseling services by expanding the successful “next-generation family counseling” using virtual reality (VR) implemented this year into next year.

A district official stated, “Gwanak-gu and the Gwanak Family Center provide customized counseling programs for diverse families to support the formation of healthy family relationships,” adding, “We will continue to do our best to discover and operate innovative family counseling support projects in a substantial manner.”

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