The Staging of Family Treatment: An Approach to Developing the Therapeutic Alliance |
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| Authors: | Michael A. Solomon |
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| Affiliation: | Michael A. Solomon, DSW, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Psychiatric Social Service, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado 80262 |
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| Abstract: | Family treatment can be staged in a way that permits the family, a) to deal with their anxiety about treatment, b) relinquish their labelling of the identified patient and identify generalized discomfort, c) explore how each family member participates in family pathology in a complimentary way, d) plan changes in the problem solving mechanism of the family system, and e) relinquish the therapist as the change agent. The conceptualization appears equally applicable to family treatment which is aimed at insight and to treatment which is geared towards the modification of behavior without insight. |
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