Brief Therapy: Two's Company
- 1 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Family Process
- Vol. 14 (1) , 79-93
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1975.00079.x
Abstract
The triad is a key element in family therapy. It is clinically useful to conceptualize it as a unit with a structure of its own. This paper suggests that a typical triadic system consists of a pair of allies and an isolate, or “odd‐man‐out,” all of whom are “stuck” in a rigid pattern that has become dysfunctional. The therapist can break the pattern by developing interventions specifically designed to create new alliances and thus broaden the family's behavioral repertoire.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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