摘要:

Family therapy's neglect of social context as a factor in its continuing distortion of women's issues has led feminist critics to wonder if systems‐based psychotherapy truly serves women. Rather than heralding the demise of family therapy, however, the feminist critique is here taken to open up concerns central to the epistemological discussion underway in the field. At first, these have to do with the functions of “punctuation,”“boundary” and “closure” in systemic epistemology. Later, the central question becomes that of the place given to context in systems epistemology generally, as well as family therapy in particular. Several implications of a more lively interest in context for family therapy's work are explored. These are discussed with respect to women's issues, clinical epistemology, and the challenge to raise novel questions in f

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00600.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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This paper examines the political processes inherent in Functional Family Therapy (FFT). It argues that this model of family therapy takes a covert political stance which reinforces traditional gender roles in both family and therapist. Of particular interest are FFT's affirmation of existing interpersonal functions in the family, as well as suggested therapist use of self. The implications of this stance are discussed, as well as recommendations for change.

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00601.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00602.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00603.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper raises and attempts to resolve some significant and controversial issues in the design of family therapy outcome studies. First, the issue of clinical relevance is addressed. Much of psychotherapy research has little relevance for practicing clinicians; this paper discusses some partial explanations and proposes some changes in the way data are reported that would have a salutary effect. Second, inter‐model comparative outcome studies are critiqued. Third, the necessary preconditions for internally valid outcome studies are delineated, along with conditions in which randomization and the use of control groups can be abandoned. Fourth, there is a discussion of a research strategy which examines the generalizability of treatment effects found in research settings to conditions which come closer to resembling clinical practice. Fifth, questions regarding the selection of therapists for family therapy outcome research are addressed, including the issue of optimal level of therapist experience, and the question of whether or not “therapists” should be treated as a randomized factor in the overall design. Finally, there is a brief discussion of outcome criteria, with a fairly clear‐cut and straightforward recommendation for determining whether or not a family therapy has had a desirable

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00604.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00605.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00606.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Family crisis intervention is a rapidly growing area of clinical care in family therapy which lacks clear conceptualization, especially with respect to how “family” fits into crisis intervention theory. This paper integrates recent concepts from the family therapy literature into three views: family as background, family as context, and family as a unit. The family crisis intervention literature (56 publications) is reviewed and categorized according to these three views. Clarity in how “family” is viewed and consistency between theory and practice are examined. Recommendations for improving the conceptualization of “family” in family crisis intervention theory and practi

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00607.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The use of multiple therapists for one case is sometimes an unnecessary overdose of therapy. This paper discusses those couples in which each has reached a plateau in his/her individual therapy and they are referred for concurrent marital therapy to break the impasse. Projective identification is the major defense used by these couples. The author suggests a time‐limited, issue‐focused approach lasting 2–6 months. The more severe the pathology, the shorter the marital therapy shou

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00608.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Enactment of emotionally intense, intimate behaviors is often important in marital therapy. But clients' concerns for privacy and their dependence on the therapist as a facilitator of communication can deter them from exhibiting such behavior in the therapist's presence. By walking out of the consulting room, the therapist can stimulate the enactment that would have been inhibited otherwise. Three case examples illustrate the technique. Specific points of procedure are considered, and the technique's limitations and risks are noted.

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1985.tb00609.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY