Interactive mobile helps children, adolescents and parents, quickly visualize and understand complex issues in the chemically dependent family...

If you are a great facilitator, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of not having enough time to help children and adolescents understand complex family issues. The Family Dynamics Mobile, developed by family therapist Stan Rowett, is a tool specifically designed to help students bridge the gap between personal experiences and conceptual understandings.

“One of the most vivid
teaching tools I have ever used
in my 27 years as an educator.”
– Dan Marker, Ph.D
Vice President, Behavioral Health Institute
A Chance to Change Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK)

By shifting the mobile’s components, counselors and educators can graphically demonstrate how the chemical depen­dency of one family member destroys the balance of the family and how other family members change roles, adopting survival behaviors to compensate for the chemically dependent person’s actions.

The chief enabler becomes super responsible, for example: the family hero becomes helpful, the scapegoat rebels, the lost child withdraws, and the mascot uses humor to survive.