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The Logical Difference Between Prevention and Treatment
Author(s) -
Gleeson Tony,
Muir Patricia
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1986.tb01277.x
Subject(s) - addiction , context (archaeology) , project commissioning , service (business) , psychology , family therapy , discipline , process (computing) , publishing , psychotherapist , psychiatry , sociology , computer science , business , political science , social science , paleontology , marketing , law , biology , operating system
The authors have spent 2 1/2 years investigating the process of change in family systems presenting with addictive symptoms in one or more of their members. The context of this research has been the systemic family therapy of more than 36 families in a hospital based drug and alcohol service. Emergent from this research is evidence of potentially destructive effects upon families and addicts who present requesting help, by referring them to programmes which are educative or preventative in nature. The case will be put for a clear distinction to be made between the functions of ‘prevention’ and ‘treatment’ in multi‐disciplinary teams in addiction services (and by implication other community health services); and for establishing a more rigorous intake system based upon such a distinction and designed to respond more appropriately to presenting requests by potential users of such a service.