摘要:

The relationship of marital conflict with emotional disorder in children is well known. The disturbed behaviour at these children is a reaction to, and at times may be the only manifestation of, the parent's conflict. The author has developed an interview technique, based on drawing a dream, which enables children to effectively communicate their understanding of the stressful events in their lives that contribute to their emotional disorder. These drawings and the child's perceptions of their parents' conflict are then discussed with the parents. This often sharply focuses the problem for the parents and may facilitate a resolution of the marital conflict, thereby allowing a more appropriate realignment of family relationships, with a consequent improvement of the child's emotional disorder.

ISSN:0156-8779    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00135.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY

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Parental distress often places young children in grave danger of physical abuse. In this paper a family therapy approach is used with a single parent family with young children where physical abuse is a distinct possibility.The paper outlines some of the basic concepts used in the therapy and focuses on the effective use of relabelling as a means to diffuse anger and open the way for constructive change within the family system.

ISSN:0156-8779    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00136.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY

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Language and cultural differences can pose barriers to effective intervention in migrant families in conflict. Family therapy approaches can provide some useful strategies for overcoming these obstacles. A family therapy approach can (1) emphasise the value of utilizing natural network support systems; (2) provide a model which helps clarify communication problems arising in the relay of information through a third person acting as an interpreter; (3) underline the importance of non‐verbal and process aspects of family communication; (4) suggest techniques for negotiating, joining, and finding commonalities of family experience between a therapist and family of different ethnic background.The therapist needs to develop sensitivity to both the universal and specific ethno‐cultural structures, norms and problems of families; when this sensitivity is achieved powerful and culturally syntonic healing forces can be released. Examples of successful family therapy interventions in some Greek families in conflict are gi

ISSN:0156-8779    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00137.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY

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In the families of schizophrenic patients everything is subordinated to the neurotic or psychotic needs of one of the parents, and the whole family then works together to stop that parent from becoming psychotic. The other parent must become completely subjugated or withdrawn and leave the family under the domination of his spouse. This becomes a rigid system in which the patient's role is to “feel nothing, do nothing, and be nothing”, and any minor change in him becomes a major threat to the integrity of the whole family. It is when he can no longer maintain this role that the person becomes clinically schizophrenic. Some of the difficulties in treating schizophrenic patients in individual or family therapy are discus

ISSN:0156-8779    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00138.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY

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Family therapy has been increasingly advocated in the management of chronic severe childhood asthma. At the Adelaide Children's Hospital we are currently engaged in a trial of family therapy in chronic childhood asthma. Effectiveness of family therapy is judged with a twelve‐month follow‐up on reduction of symptoms, drug use, emergency physician visits and hospital admissions and on improvement in school attendance and social and family functioning compared to the previous two years experience of the treated patients and compared to a cohort of untreated patients Of similar severity. We are particularly interested in studying different patterns of conflict detouring (child centredness, triangulation and fixed coalition) and the different therapeutic strategies requi

ISSN:0156-8779    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00139.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The author shows that the family doctor's burden of responsibility in the area of psychological dysfunction in the community is immense. Traditionally he has little training, limited knowledge, and a paucity of skills, in the areas of counselling and psychotherapy. The author argues that structural and strategic family therapy skills may be applicable to family practice and of benefit to the family doctor. A brief introductory course and subsequent feedback are described.

ISSN:0156-8779    

DOI:10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00140.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1980

数据来源: WILEY