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Family Therapy
🕑 Added 2021-11-16 16:30:47 +0000 UTC
I needed a mod that not necessarily a comprehensive mental health mod with diagnoses and medications but focused on psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal relationships, specifically relating to familial issues including addiction (found in BD), behavioral issues, marital, parent/guardian, and sibling relationships and issues as well as grief and diagnosis from mine and some other mods. It's a little more specific and niche but I needed it for my gameplay. This is not meant to be a 100% accurate representation of therapies available or how to deal with diagnosis but a more generalized, Sim-style version.
Features
Family Therapy
Grief Counseling
New Family Interactions
Couples Counseling
Support Groups
Behavior/Mood Therapy
How It Works
New Familial Interactions
There are several new interactions for unmarried, married, and divorced couples, as well as siblings, parents-children, and all family members. They concern a number of topics: work/school, grades, social status, finances, bills, illnesses, diagnosis/disorders, behaviors, relationships, death, and addiction. These interactions will have an impact on therapy sessions, particularly home-based therapy sessions.
Therapy
Initial Consultation
In order to access therapy, your sim will need to use the phone under the general pie menu to book an initial therapy consultation. The consultation is available to any household member age child and up.
This will only be initially available when there is either a negative sentiment or extremely poor relationship with another member of the family, is going through a phase or mood swing, a family member has died, or if your sim has been diagnosed with the following Basemental Drugs issues or Healthcare Redux issues: Anxiety (HCR), Postpartum Depression (HCR), Seasonal Affective Disorder (HCR), ADHD (BD), Cancer (BD), and Addiction (BD).
They can decide to go by themselves or with more than one family member. After agreeing to work with the therapist, sims can come back for individual or group sessions. While basic individual sessions are available, group sessions are the focus of the mod. The group sessions are there to help with the following situations:
Addiction in the family - Drugs (Basemental Drugs integration)
Couple issues - Money, Sex, Life Changes, Children, Opposing Traits
Behavioral issues - Evilness, Lack of Responsibility or Conflict Resolution,
Diagnosis/Illness - Cancer, Anxiety, SAD, Postpartum Depression, ADHD
Death in the family - Grief
Familial Issues - Divorce, Breakup, Sibling Rivalry, Social Pressures
Home-Based Therapy Sessions
Your sim can sign up, once they've decided to keep using therapy, for home-based therapy sessions. The therapist will show up at the sim's house and a therapy session will get started. Note that you need to greet the therapist using the "Greet Family Therapist" interaction when they arrive on the lot in order to begin the therapy session. This option can only be used every 5 days. The session last about two hours. Based on the interactions they choose during the therapy session, that will further inform how they view that session. Home-based therapy sessions are only available Monday, Thursday, and Saturday between 10am and 2pm. To end the session early, you can use the "End Home-Based Therapy Session" interaction. You can invite other members of the family to join the session.
Support Groups
In addition to therapy appointments, your sims may also attend various support groups individually or as a family. The support groups may or may not be as effective depending on the sim and their traits and the nature of the issue, but they can definitely help.
More Than Addiction - An addiction support group for addicts and their families
Good Grief - A support group to help those who are grieving a loss in a celebratory, but respectful environment
Caring for Caregivers - A caregiver/parent support group to vent and share tips and tricks
Youth Group - A child and teen only support group for behavioral and emotional support
The Village - A self help support group for those with mental health issues and their families
Caveat: This mod is not a comprehensive mental health mod. There are other (both current and future) mods by other creators that will delve into that much more deeply. The reason this isn't part of Healthcare Redux is because I didn't want to tie it to that larger system to work. I really just needed some interactions for my gameplay (as you all know, I say it all the time, I really make mods based on my gameplay) that focused on family therapy and decided to expand on it a little for more common game situations for you all.
***There are no diagnosis or medication, but this will take into consideration diagnosis' from Healthcare Redux (Anxiety, Postpartum Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder) and Basemental Drugs (ADHD, Lung Cancer, Addictions). It will also take into affect separated statuses from Lumpinou's WHW Module 10.***
REQUIREMENTS:
My general pie menu package (only one needed in your mod folder so don't download if you already have one) and Lumpinou's Mood Pack August.
Comments
where are the family social interactions? under friendly??
SportySims
Hi there, I'm still figuring out how to mod. Besides I added a German Translation you can find here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mods-by-deep-83337697
George Washington
Oh okay. Thank you 💕
adeepindigo
No because nothing is since Zero's mental health mod is extremely out of date...
George Washington
Is this compatible with Zero's mental health mod?
lily
Love this mod so much! In the future do you think you would allow therapy to be accessible to all sims? I would like to send my sims to therapy for the storyline, without them having any issues the mod will detect.
adeepindigo
No there's no way to choose the family therapist at this time!
Elle
Hi! Is there a way we can choose who the family therapist is? I have a storyline I’m trying to play out 😅
adeepindigo
... Is it not working for you and that's why you're asking or are you just going around to every mod and asking if it's broken because I just did a round of updates and this one was included. Do you not get those emails...?
LaToya Johnson
Has anyone been able to work for anyone lately? Haven't you seen any new posts?
Lu
Hi! First of all I would like to tell you that this mod is cool and interesting. I started uploading translations of mods into Spanish and the first mod I chose was yours. I hope it doesn't bother you and if it does please let me know :)
For some reason this mod doesn't work for me. Everything is greyed out.
Tiffany Edwards
Yes I deleted the mod, then my local thumbnail cache and redownloaded it, works now
Stephanie
hey, did you ever find a solution for this? mine are all greyed out too :(
Naja Højholt
I do, but I'll try to update it and see if it works better :)
adeepindigo
Do you have the XML injector?
Naja Højholt
I have downloaded everything and I think I’ve done it correctly. However the menu with family interactions are not showing up so my families can’t perform the social interactions 😭❤️
Monica
It is working for me now
adeepindigo
Send the LE in a thread on discord. I cant do anything about it on patreon.
Monica
I am getting an LE for Family Therapy. I redownloaded to see if it will still give me an LE. My therapy session options are all greyed out too.
Tiffany Edwards
No, it's all greyed out
adeepindigo
Have they done the initial therapy sessions?
MK29
same also
Tiffany Edwards
So I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but I have a teen that just lost her dad and a child going through a phase but I don't have the option to schedule a therapy session. The selections are greyed out.
Monica
I haven't had any issues as of yet. I will try it out today and see what happens.
Stephanie
Have you found a solution to it by any chance?
MK29
yhh i get this too
Stephanie
Does anyone else have the issue where there are no options when you go to pick the focus of the session? :(
Dizzylemon
Perfect! I need family counseling as one of the Sim daughters can't get past something her father said that hurt her. She is in a forever uncomfortable mood when he is in the room. This mod is what I need, I hope.
