Family Therapy Testing

Updated: Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who tested. Testing is closed and the Beta version is available to non-support tier patrons. Thank You!!! 

Hi All,

For those of you who have volunteered to be testers for this mod and for those of you in the Sapphire tier, I am sending an alpha version of family therapy to you. Please let me know any problems you encounter. Here's a rough description of the mod to get you started and for those who might be interested. Details and features are subject to change in beta and before patron and public release as I'm still adding things. 

Note: This will require the XML injector because writing my own script for two injections felt wholly unnecessary. It also requires Lumpinou's Mood Pack.

Note that 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. I really needed some way to lower the strength and time length of sentiments but in a way that added some gameplay so here's family therapy to help sims with emotions but more specifically negative sentiments particularly amongst family members. 

Features

Family Therapy

Couples Counseling

Support Groups

How It Works

Therapy

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. 

Support groups and therapy sessions will only be available when there is either a negative sentiment or conflict with another member of the family, a sim is going through a phase or mood swing or experiencing powerful emotions, a family member of the sim has died, or if your sim has been diagnosed with the following Basemental Drugs or Healthcare Redux issues: Anxiety (HCR), Postpartum Depression (HCR), Seasonal Affective Disorder (HCR), ADHD (BD), Cancer (BD), and any 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 sessions or group sessions. While individual sessions are available, they are not the focus of the mod. The sessions are there to help with the following situations:

Addiction in the family - Drugs (Basemental Drugs integration)

Couple issues - Finances, Woohoo Issues, 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

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 youth (child/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), Basemental Drugs (ADHD, Lung Cancer, Addictions).