Family-focused management: Treatment of choice for deviant and dependent families
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Family Counseling
- Vol. 6 (2) , 25-31
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01926187808250285
Abstract
Helping professionals working with troubled families takes two approaches. One approach, noting that the identified patient's family's behavioral interactions have positive and negative effects on the patient and his symptoms, advocates involving family members in the treatment process. The other approach, noting that the identified patient alone has the power to resolve his problem, advocates treating the patient independently of the family. This latter approach, in effect, relieves family members of the painful feelings of responsibility. At first glance, these two approaches appear to be in conflict, and it is no wonder that professionals choose to remain with one or the other. Both points of view are valid, so that approaches need to be developed which incorporate both.Keywords
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